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6/21/1930 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · book 24 page 155 doc 8720

From LITTLEFIELD JAMES B life, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, LITTLEFIELD MAYBELL K
To ARNOLD THOMAS L life, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Premises mortgage deed and secured note/bond (North Smithfield)

Back — where this land came from

mortgage James A. and Elizabeth R. Bittellfield book 49 p 446 North Smithfield
“mortgage deed recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the town of North Smithfield Rhode Island in Real Estate PB 49 page 446”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1925 · DEED · ARNOLD CORNELIA E MACMULLAN; ARNOLD FRANK W DECEASED; ARNOLD THOMAS L → LITTLEFIELD JAMES B; LITTLEFIELD MAYBELLE K · book 21 p 441

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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Know all men that the Washington Trust Company a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Rhode Island having its office for the transaction of business at Providence, Rhode Island the mortgage named in a certain mortgage deed recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the town of North Smithfield Rhode Island in Real Estate PB 49 page 446, made by James A. and Elizabeth R. Bittellfield to the Washington Trust Company, dated March 2, 1925, in consideration of Three thousand dollars ($3,000) paid by the Washington Trust Company as trustee under deed of Trust made by Thomas G. Arnold, dated the 8th day of April, 1924. The receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged does hereby grant, bargain, transfer and make over to the said Washington Trust Company, as trustee under deed of Trust made by Thomas G. Arnold, dated the 8th day of April, 1924 to successors and assigns, the above described mortgage deed, with the note and bond thereby secured, and all the rights, the use and interest therein first and in the first and the estate desired therein so as to hold the same with the privileges and appurtenances thereunto to its use in Washington Trust Company, as trustee under deed of Trust made by Thomas G. Arnold, dated the 8th day of April, 1924, its successors and assigns, in a ample manner as if the same had been conveyed and transferred, and apportioning the said Washington Trust Company, as trustee under the deed of Trust made by Thomas G. Arnold, dated the 8th day of April, 1924 to successors and assigns, the property, or the things incorporated of said mortgage under and with all the provisions in said deed granted and contained. On testimony whereof the said Washington Trust Company has caused its seal to be affixed to be signed by its duly authorized officer and its seal to be affixed and attested this 11th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty. Attest James M. Shaw sec. Treasurer The Washington Trust Company By George Bena Treas. LS State of Rhode Island County of Washington RI. State of Rhode Island, on this 11th day of June, 1930, before me personally came George Bena appears to me known, the saying being by duly sworn says that he does have and say that he resides at Providence, Rhode Island and that he is officer of the Washington Trust Company the corporation described in and which hereunto the foregoing instrument attaches he knows the seal of said corporation, and that the act of affixing to said instrument is one corporate act, that it was so affixed by order of the board of directors, and that it be signed his name there to the president and seal of said corporation. (Signed) George Bena Robert Cutler Received for record June 21, 1930, at 4.5 pm.ston. Hon and stamped by George S. Gorton Town Clerk [Vertical text on right margin]: I certify that this is a true copy of the record of the Town of North Smithfield Book 493 - Page 155 S. G. Gorton Town Clerk LS

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.