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2/23/1925 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 20 page 453 doc 7638

From HOXSIE ASA T life
To CLARK MARY A life, CLARK THOMAS J life
Premises ten acres · tract with a demolished cottage house and site (Charlestown)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE ELDRIDGE ELIZABETH MAUD; ELDRIDGE THURMA

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1923 · MORTGAGE · CLARK MARY A; CLARK THOMAS J → HOXSIE ASA T · book 20 p 450
◀ 1917 · MORTGAGE · CORCORAN MARY A → HOXSIE ASA T · book 18 p 493
◀ 1913 · DEED · RICHARD ALFRED J; RICHARD DELPHINE M → HOXSIE JOSEPH M; HOXSIE ASA T · book 17 p 523
◀ 1910 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; BURDICK SAMUEL DECEASED → HOXSIE ASA T · book 16 p 399
◀ 1905 · DEED · BRIGGS FRANCES V; HOXSIE LUCY A; BRIGGS WILLIAM B; BRIGGS MARY E; HOXS → HOXSIE ASA T · book 15 p 215
◀ 1903 · DEED · STANTON ABEL F; STANTON SUSAN H; WILLIAMS OLIVER H COMMISSIONER → HOXSIE ASA T; HOXSIE JOSEPH M · book 14 p 382
◀ 1889 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK → HOXSIE ASA T; HOXSIE NANCY B · book 11 p 146
◀ 1874 · DEED · WILCOX ABBIE E ADMINISTRATRIX; WILLCOX JOSEPH D ESTATE OF → HOXSIE ASA T · book 10 p 127

Forward — where this land went

⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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453. State of Rhode Island &c County of Washington In Westerly on the 24th day of January AD 1923 before me personally appeared Grace Black and Thomas Black wife & husband and to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the following instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by their hands to be their free act and deed Howard E. Thorp Notary Public Received for record April 14th 1923 at 9 oclock AM and recorded by George G. Booth Clerk I the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the mortgage entitled recorded in the records of land evidence in the town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island in land record Book number 26, at page 448, hereby cancel and discharge the same, and d' erase and vacate the same with the person making said payment, that it and the present owner of said mortgage, In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of February 1923 Ann T. Thorp Released February 23, 1923 by George G. Booth Clerk Know all men by these presents That I Ella Norcross Morris wife of William Morris, of the city and State of New York hereinafter called the mortgagor in consideration of One thousand ($1,000) Dollars to me paid by Thurman E Eldridge and Elizabeth Maude Eldridge, husband and wife of the town of Charlestown County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the mortgagees, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey without to the said mortgagees and their heirs and assigns forever, Their certain tract or parcel of land located in the town of Charlestown, county of Washington and state of Rhode Island and surveyed at times as follows: is called, The first part with a cottage house and site inclusive amounts, thereon standing demolished and described as follows namely: beginning at a small cut in a wall stone twenty one (21) feet Southerly from a cross cut on a stone in the corner of a wall thence South fifty nine (59) degrees West twenty (20) feet to a stake and stones thence twenty (20) feet South of a line wall thence south forty three (43) degrees West twenty (20) minutes East four hundred twenty seven (427) feet to a stake and stones by the edge of
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Leet and bounding south east by the Attenute Ocean to the first mentioned point of beginning, said lot being contains by estimation ten acres. Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by warranty deed from Anne Atwell to William J. Smith dated October 11, 1799 and recorded in deed Book No. 19, at page 215; of the records of deeds in said town of Johnston. said premises are charged subject to a mortgage of $200 or as appears by clear. To have and to hold the aforesaid premises, with all the right privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging unto and to the use of the said mortgagee and their heirs and assigns forever. And we the said mortgagor do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said mortgagee and their heirs and assigns that we are lawfully seized in the simple fee of the said granted premises, that the same are free from all encumbrances except said mortgage of $200 as recorded. And that we have good right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid, that the said mortgagee and his heirs and assigns shall by these presents at all times henceforth peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises, and that we the said mortgagor will and our heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said mortgagee and their heirs and assigns against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. And for the considerations aforesaid, I the said Robert G. Smith, wife of said William J. Smith as part of my dower hereby release all or my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said mortgagee and their heirs and assigns forever. Provided, nevertheless, and their convey ance is made upon the express condition, that if the said mortgagor their heirs, executors administrators or assigns, shall pay unto the said mortgagee or their executors, administrators or assigns, the sum of three thousand (£300) sterling wherefore the said mortgagors have made her negotiable promissory note for said aggregate sum, bearing een date with these presents, and made payable to the use of Mary G. Smith and Mary S. Smith, and one from the date of commencement 17th day 1724 with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annuum payable semi annually in advance until said promised sum is paid, whether at or after maturity, and all installments of interest in arrears, whether at or after maturity, and to bear interest at the rate aforesaid until paid, and shall waive all taxes and assessments of every kind levied or accrued thereon or in respect of said premises, then this deed, as also said promissory note shall become and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. But if default shall be made in the payment of the said promissory note or of paid interest at the time of times listed in the manner aforesaid or of the taxes
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139 and they will upon request execute such deed or release confirming of and sale or lease as may be required. And furthermore, the said mortgagees, their tenements and so that their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagor and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that improvements against loss by fire shall be kept and maintained on the building on the premises aforesaid, in such office or offices as the said mortgagees, and their executors, administrators or assigns shall determine, in a sum not less than three hundred dollars (300) and that the policy or policies of such insurance shall be assigned and transferred or made payable in case of loss, to the said mortgagees or their executors, administrators or assigns, as an additional security hereunto, and in default hereof hereby agree that the said mortgagees or their executors, administrators or assigns bind, effect such insurance in the name of the said mortgagor and their heirs and assigns, payable in case of loss to the said mortgagees and their executors, administrators or assigns, and that the premises so insured shall therefore shall be a further charge upon said granted tenements, secured by these presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 17th day of December in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty four. Executed in presence of G. Raymond Walsh. Williams J. Vygatt [seal] Lola E. Vygatt [seal] State of Rhode Island &c County of Providence On provided on the 17th day of December AD, 1924 before me Government appears said Williams J. Vygatt and said Lola E. Vygatt to me known did swear by me to be the Herlies sealing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument be their species to be their free act and deed. G. Raymond Walsh Notary Public. Received for record Dec, 22, 1924 at 9:10 o'clock a.m. and recorded by George G. Cozzens, Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

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deed_walker_v1.9_2026-10-10 · the index is the town's own (i2l.uslandrecords.com); transcripts, chains and the assessor's cards are the Perry Machine's reading of it. Where the record we hold runs out, the page says so.