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the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed.
Stephen Zegarzewski
Notary Public
Received for record June 3rd A. D. 1964 at 9:17 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by
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Deputy Town Clerk ---
DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, of Westerly, Rhode Island, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage, recorded in the Records of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown in Book Number 39 Page 540 on 8/2/1936 hereby cancels and discharges the same.
BY THIS CERTIFICATE signed, said Company has caused these presents to be signed and its Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed by John S. Hodge its Assistant V. P. duly authorized, this 11th day of October, A. D. 1966.
(Corporate Seal)
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
By John S. Hodge
its Assistant Vice Pres
Signed and sealed in presence of:
Stephen J. Zegarzewski
Received for record October 14th, A. D. 1966 at 9:16 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
L. L. Moore
Town Clerk
I, ALDA B. BICKNELL, of Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, being of sound and disposingmind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament, and hereby revoking all wills by me at any time heretofore made.
FIRST: I direct that all my just and lawful debts be paid.
SECOND: I give and bequeath to my two sisters, FAY LEONARD of Bridgewater, Virginia, and GLAUDIS HOOKER, of Chesone, Florida, all my household furniture and personal effects, equal and share alike.
THIRD: I give and bequeath to my niece, HELENE CLINE HODGES, of Stuarts Draft, Virginia, the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500).
FOURTH: I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real and personal, of whatever character and wheresoever situate, to my sister, FAY LEONARD, of Bridgewater, Virginia.
FIFTH: I hereby nominate and appoint my said sister, FAY LEONARD, of Bridgewater, Virginia, as Executorix of this my last will and testament, and I request that no surety be required on her bond as such Executrix.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this 13th day of JULY, 1956.
ALDA B. BICKNELL
(SEAL)
Signed, published and declared, in our presence, and as for her last will and testament by the testatrix, ALDA B. BICKNELL, and we, in her presence, and in the presence of each other, and at her request, have hereunto subscribed the sail will as witnesses, on the day and year above written.
William H. Ramsey
Lawrence M. Hoover
In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, November 10, 1956.
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Alda B. Bicknell, who died on the 1st day of October, 1956, was this day presented in the office aforesaid and offered for probate; therefore, said writing was proven by the oaths of William H. Ramsey and Lawrence M. Hoover, the subscribing witnesses thereto, and the state tax thereon having been paid on an estate reported at $125,200 (personal $85,700, real $39,500), the said writing is admitted to record as the true last will and testament of Alda B. Bicknell, deceased. Thereupon, Fay Leonard, the executrix named in said will, appeared in the office aforesaid and qualified as such executrix by taking and subscribing the oath prescribed by law, and without surety as provided in said will entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of Eleven Thousand Dollars ($11,000), conditioned and payable as provided by law; and certificate is granted said executrix for obtaining a probate of said will and letters of administration upon said estate in due form.
(Seal) Atteste: J. Robert Switzer, Clerk
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STATE OF VIRGINIA,
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM, TO-WIT:
I, George W. Kemper, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, the same being a Court of Record having by law a seal, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the last will and testament of ALDA B. BICKNELL, together with the Order of Probate thereon, as the same appears of record in Will Book No. 19, at page 85, in my office as Clerk aforesaid.
I do further certify that the said Order of Probate entered by me on the 10th day of November, 1958, and which is hereto attached as aforesaid, is the only order entered or required to be entered under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the matter of the probate of wills and administration of personal representatives of estates, and constitutes the complete record of such probate proceeding s.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, this 12th day of February, 1963.
(Seal)
George W. Kemper, Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Rockingham
County, Virginia.
Received for record June 2nd A. D. 1964 at 11:00 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by [?] Deputy Town Clerk
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FAY LEONARD of Bridgewater, Virginia for consideration paid, grant to LOUIS MAGLIONA and his wife, ELIZABETH MAGLIONA as Joint Tenants with the right of survivorship and not as Tenants in Common of Stanford, Connecticut with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
That certain lot or parcel of land located in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounding Beach Lake (so-called) and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the southeast corner of land now or lately of Glen F. Godden, et al, thence running easterly forty (40) feet bounded by land of Glen F. Godden, et al, thence in a line 200 feet more or less to the Town Highway bounded by other land of Glen F. Godden, thence westerly 90 feet more or less bounded by said Highway, thence northerly 200 feet more or less, Beginning bounding at the land of Glen F. Godden, et al being all the land conveyed by Samuel Loxley and Hannah A. Loxley, his wife, to Gertrude L. Bicknell by deed dated December 6, 1912.
Said land being the same property laid out on the Town of Charlestown Tax Assessor's Plat 14 as Lot 27.
F. L. Leonard husband of the grantor release to said grantee all right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforementioned premises.
WITNESS hand 22nd day of May day of 1964
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10)
MRS. FAY OLIVE LEONARD
F. L. LEONARD
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA }
County of Rockingham }
In Bridgewater, Va. on the 22nd day of May, 1964, before me personally appeared Dr. F. L. Leonard & Mrs. Fay Leonard known to me known and known by me to be the part executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by executed, to be their free act and deed.
T. C. Cross, Jr. N. P. (Notarial Seal)
My Commission expires June 3, 1964.
Received for record June 2nd, A. D. 1964 at 1:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?] Notary Public