The instrument's own words
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108 KNOW All MEN by these presents, that J. Samuel R.
Shenson, of the town of Suffield, in the County of Hartford and State of
Connecticut, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, therefore under a certain
mortgage given by the New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company,
a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island
and Connecticut to the treasurer of the State of Connecticut as trustee, dated
the sixth day of July 1842 which mortgage is recorded in the office of
the Secretary of the State of Connecticut in Vol. 3 of mortgages, Folio 176,
and in aforementioned deeds Records in Book 1, page 379 in amount written
for the sum of $ 10,000 and other sums and subsequent extensions
of one half by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company,
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Rhode
Island when said corporation acquired by merger in the first day of
February, 1893 all the property rights and franchises of said New York
Providence and Boston Railroad Company, the receipt whereof he hereby
acknowledges, with the consent in writing of the beneficial Hanover Produce and
Fruit Company of New York, clear and free from any claim unto the South
County Public Service Company of Narragansett, Rhode Island, a corporation
under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, all the right title and
interest which he as such Treasurer and trustee acquired the aforesaid
mortgage, in and to that certain parcel of land situated in the town of
Narragansett, county of State of Rhode Island, known as the aforesaid
improvements on costs entitled the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad
as per State Right of Way Department land map in South Kingstown, R.I. to be
annexed to South County Public Service Company scale 1 in = 100 ft
August, 1924" and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a
point in the centerline between land owned and land now
of formerly of John & Moses Hiscox running five (5) feet Northwesterly at right
angles from station 13+45.89 65 of the monuments center line of the
railroad of said Railroad Company thence running Northwesterly in a line
at right angles to said center line bounding Southeasterly of said land
now or formerly of John & Moses Hiscox there bound fifty one and five
hundredths (51.05) feet thence running Northeasterly making an interior
angle of 90° 00' with the east course line bounding Northwesterly on
said land now or formerly of John & Moses Hiscox one hundred and twelve
(112.00) feet thence running Northeasterly making an interior angle of
11° 50' with the last course line bounding Northeasterly in land now or
formerly of John & Moses Hiscox one hundred eighty eight and eighty
nine hundredths (188.89) feet to a point seventy five (75) feet Northwesterly at
right angles from station 13+52.58 65 of said maintained center lines
thence running Southeasterly in a line seventy five (75) feet Northeasterly
at right angles from and parallel with said maintained center lines
bounding Southeasterly on land of said Railroad Company
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never bounded (70) feet to the north or line of surveying, containing one
and four hundred forty three thousandly (5,443) acres; subject to a convention
emblem related to crossing right over the aforesaid lot south east and west
Railroad Company more particularly described in the aid and rail road
Railroad Company to said South County Public Service company dated
december 18th 1894, reference to which is hereby made.
To have and to hold the same unto the said South County Public Service
company, its successors and assigns to it and them forever free and
clear from fees, free, clear and discharged from any and all liens and
claim lines and by virtue of said mortgage but this reserve shall
not in any way affect or impair the right of the said trustees to keep
under paid mortgage as security for the payment of the bonds of said
New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company, or to sell under
The power of sale in said mortgage entire, all the remainders of the
premises herein conveyed and not hereby, so written for aforesaid
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official
seal this 12 day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and thirty
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
James D. White
W. S. Bromden
Samuel R. Steever L.S.
Treasurer of the State of Connecticut
and Trustee
Approved as to form George Clark
Description approved R. W. Reed Engr of surveyors
State of Connecticut SS.
County of Hartford
Personally appeared Samuel R. Steever, to me known
and known by me to be the Treasurer and trustee as aforesaid and
the signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged
the same to be his free act and deed as said Treasurer and trustee,
Before me Thomas H. Judd
Notary Public L.S.
Received for record May 4 1930 at 9.15 o clock AM,
and recorded by George B. Cross Town Clerk
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