The instrument's own words
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To be published in said newspaper in the issues thereof dated and published
respectively July 9th 12th 16th 19th 23rd 26th 29th and 30th 1924, and further
by advertising in the "Providence Journal" of Providence R.I., and the "Hospital News"
of Newport, R.I. in the issues of said papers on July 27th 1924, and further
by posting signs and distributing circulars and leaflets setting forth the times,
terms and place of said sale, and that on the second day of August A.D. 1924,
at three thirty o'clock in the afternoon, samples of hand linens on the premises
of the said fourth tract and immediately following the sale of the third lot
mentioned and described herein between 20° and 30° of east with paragraphs of
said Bill of complaint, the premises were sold to one Howard E. Joseph
the amount named in the foregoing deed, for the sum of four hundred forty
five ($445) dollars, he having then and there the highest bidder for said premise
at said sale, and that I have made and executed the following deed to
complete said sale under the authority given me and I hereby deliver
of said lot consequent to in said deed.
Howard E. Joseph Commissioner
State of Rhode Island,
Washington Sc
In my Notary, in said county on this 17th day of August A.D. 1924,
subscribed and sworn to before me.
Augustine P. S. Soderberg
Notary Public
Received for record August 18th 1924 at 9.20 o'clock a.m.
and recorded by George Connor, Town Clerk.
To all Persons to whom these presents shall come, I Howard E.
Joseph, of the Town of Westerly, county of Washington and State of Rhode
Island, in my capacity of Commissioner as hereinafter set forth, Send Greeting
Whereas, the Honorable Superior Court sitting within and for the said County of
Washington did on the 28th day of May, A.D. 1926, enter a decree in a cause
equitably pending then in said Court, namely Stanton S. Bean et al., as
the Complainants, and Mary S. Norris et al., as the respondents (said
cause being Docket No. 209) directing that partition of certain lands tenements,
premises and properties mentioned and described in the Bill of complaint
in said cause, and hereinafter more particularly described, be made by
a sale thereof at public auction and in said by said Decree appointed
one, the said Howard E. Joseph, commissioner, to make sale of the
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several parcels of real estate described in said Bill of Complaint, at Public Auction
externally, and on the said several premises respectively described in said Bill of
Complaint, excepting that the second lot bounded and described wrongly under
"A" in the ninth paragraph in said Bill of Complaint be sold on the first tract,
bounded and described partly under "A" in said ninth paragraph, on the same day
and immediately after the sale of the said first tract, and further to advertise said
sale and sale in the "Newport Daily Journal," a newspaper published and published
in the said town of Newport, three times each notice for three successive weeks prior
to said sale or sales, and to give such other means of publicity to said sale or sales
as said commissioner shall deem proper enough, and further that the said several
parcels of real estate described in said Bill of Complaint be sold by way commencing
between the 6th day of July 1924, and the 31st day of August 1924, both dates inclusive,
with power of adjournment without order of the court, and also in and
by said decree authorizing me, the said commissioner, as such commissioner, to
make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers of said several premises
or properties described in said Bill of Complaint good and sufficient deeds
under my hand and seal, conveying all the right title and interest of the
parties to said Bill of Complaint, and each of them, in fee simple in and
to the several lands, tenements premises and properties so sold by me, and
executed by pursuance of the present and authority vested in me by said court
in and by said decree, I caused notice of the sale and asserted of said several
described lands, tenements premises and properties to be published in all
particulars in conformity with the requirements of said decree, and further the
posted notices and sign of the time terms and place of said sales on the
respective premises, and further posted printed notices in conspicuous places in
the town of Newport and Westerly, in said county of Washington, and further
detailed divisors signs and handbills advertising with the time, terms and prices
of said sales, did on the 2nd day of August, AD 1924, at eleven thirty o'clock in
the forenoon, dwelling site premises, in the premises of the first tract mentioned
and described partly under section "A" of the ninth paragraph of said Bill of
Complaint, after the completion of said advertising notice and further selling
all the lands, tenements premises and property mentioned and described in
aforesaid, and further laid forth in said advertisement and notice by using the
term known as the "properties" land of the late Henry Black it Public Auction
upon the said premises so sold to the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
a corporation legally created and Residence in the state of Rhode Island Southern
it being the highest bidder at said sale in the sum of four thousand hundred
(4200) dollars
Joseph Moore from whom I got, that I the said Howard
& Joseph, Commissioner as aforesaid by virtue of the power and authority in
me vested by said Decree of Court and in consideration of the aforesaid
sum of four thousand hundred (4200) dollars to me paid by the aforesaid
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company (receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged) do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey
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unto the said Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company and its successors and
assigns forever, that certain lot or parcel of land, together with all the
buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the town of Charlestown in said
county of Washington, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: Boundly
in the north by inland water known as Masttown Pond, Easterly on said Masttown
Pond, and land of the American Society of Rhode Island, a corporation legally
created, southerly on land of Brenda B. Allen and land now or formerly of Fred
Eberhart, and westerly on land of Elena Regginald and north and land
now or formerly of the estate of Joseph M. Hopkins, deceased, the said Trust
namely conveyed encompassing approximately one hundred fifty seven acres more
or less, for a fuller and more particular description of the said premises,
referring to a certain deed from Mrs. Olive Delancey
to Samuel B. Allen dated March 18th 1878 and recorded in said land evidence
records of the town of Charlestown office in Book No. 10 page 394
To have and to hold the aforementioned premises to the said Rhode Island
Hospital Trust Company, its successors and assigns, for its own and
for its own use, benefit and behoof of forever. And I, the said Howard
E. Thorp, do hereby warrant and with the said Rhode Island Hospital Trust
Company, its successors and assigns, that I was lawfully authorized to
make said sale, and that in giving the notes and making said sale thereof,
and in all other matters relating thereto, I have conformed to the sense
of said court and the requirements of the law in the premises
Now therefore, I the said Howard E. Thorp Commissioner as
aforenamed, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of August
AD 1946
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Madeline M. Dixon
Howard E. Thorp
Commissioner L.S.
State of Rhode Island
Washington ss.
On this day personally in said county on this 14th day of August AD
1946 before me Attorney approved Howard E. Thorp, to me known and
known by me to be the person described in and other in his capacity
as Commissioner, executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledges
the same by him signed attested or affixed to be his free act and deed, in his said
capacity
Clarence L. Ludlow
Notary Public
I Howard E. Thorp of the town of Westerly, county of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, swearth before said and say that I am the person
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with in any capacity as commissioners, appointed by the Superior Court within
and for said county of Providence, as aforesaid, made and executed
the foregoing deed; that I did give notice of the time, terms and
place of said sale by publishing the same in the Westerly Daily
Press, a newspaper published in the said town or vicinity for
at least three times each week for three successive weeks prior
to said sale, a will appear out of the police hereto annexed, by
causing said notice to be published in said newspaper in
the five weeks stated and published respectively July 9th,
14th, 16th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 28th and 30th 1926, and further
by advertising in the "Providence Journal" of Providence, R.I.,
and the "Westerly Sun" of Westerly, R.I. in the manner of
said papers on July 28th, 1926, and further posted signs
and distributed circulars and posters setting forth the
time, terms and place of said sale and that on the
second day of August AD 1926, at eleven thirty o'clock
in the forenoon, Daylight Saving Time, on the premises
of the first part heretofore described hereinabove,
under Section "A" of the ninth paragraph of said
Bill of complaint, after the completion of the said
advertising, notices and other publicity, the said
premises were sold by me to the one Rhodes Salmond
Hospital Trust Company the Grantee named in
the foregoing deed for the sum of four thousand five
hundred dollars, I being then there and there the
highest bidder for said premises at paid sale and
that I have made and executed the foregoing
deed to complete said sale under the authority
given me and my co-commissioner by the decree of said Court
referred to in said deed,
Howard E. Thorpe
Commissioners
State of Rhode Island
Washington S.S.
In Presence in said County on this
14th day of August AD 1926, subscribed and
sworn to before me,
Augustine J. Soderbridge L.S.
Notary Public
Received for record August 17, 1926 at 11 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by G. Boyce, Associate Form Clerk
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