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120 This Indenture between Clarence G. Church and Esther E. Church husband and
wife of Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island, for
consideration paid, grant to Martha A Chapman of Westerly in said
County and State with Mortgage Covenanty, to secure the payment
of Eight hundred ($800) dollars on demand with interest at six
per centum per annum, payable semi annually, as evidenced in a
certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith a certain
tract of land situated partly in Charlestown and partly in Westerly
containing forty five acres more or less and bounded and described
as follows on the North by land of Sullivan Furniture Company and
land of Henry M Read and wife on the East by the old highway
now known as the Broad Road and land of Henry M Read and wife
on the South by land of Joseph Morena and on the West by land
of the heirs of Nathaniel Saunders, or however otherwise bounded,
with a dwelling house thereon, appurtenances and belonging to
convey the same premises we hold by deed from Henry M Read
and wife on record in said Charlestown in Land Book one
Book 112 page 456. This mortgage is made upon the
statutory construction and with the statutory form of sale,
witness our hands this 6 day of December, 1927.
George Osborne Clarence G. Church
Esther E. Church
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Charlestown, on the 6 day of December AD 1927
before me personally appeared Clarence G. Church and
Esther E. Church to me known to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged
said instrument by them signed to be their free act and deed.
George Osborne
Notary Public
Received for record Dec 8, 1927 at 4.15 o clock PM,
and recorded by George Osborne from Clerk
Having received full payment of the note secured by the foregoing
mortgage both principal and interest I hereby cancel and
discharge the same.
Witness my hand this 24th day of August 1930
Witness George Osborne Martha A Chapman