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Trail: 8721

6/21/1930 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · book 24 page 156 doc 8721

From LITTLEFIELD JAMES B life, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, LITTLEFIELD MAYBELL K
To ARNOLD THOMAS L life, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Premises estate described in the cited mortgage (Westerly, Rhode Island)

Back — where this land came from

mortgage James B. and Mabel Hawthorne book 239 p 280 Westerly
“mortgage deed recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island in Real Estate book volume 239 page 280”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (other_town)
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deed Thomas B. Smith
“deed of trust made by Thomas B. Smith, dated the 8th day of July, 1924”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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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

Follow forward ▶ 1956 · DEED · SNOW NANCY E → PULASKI ELLDINA C; PULASKI FRANK P · book 35 p 233
“conveyed to the Grantor and Rutherford H. Snow... by Herman E. Learned, by deed dated June 10, 1930”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

The instrument's own words

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156 KNOW ALL MEN that the Washington Trust Company & Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Rhode Island and having its office at the intersection of businesses at Westerly, Rhode Island, the mortgagee named in a certain mortgage deed recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island in Real Estate book volume 239 page 280, made by James B. and Mabel Hawthorne to the Washington Trust Company, dated June 14 1925, in amount of five thousand dollars loan made by the Washington Trust Company as trustee under deed of trust made by Thomas B. Smith, dated the 8th day of July, 1924, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged does hereby remise release and forever quit claim unto the said Washington Trust Company, as trustee under deed of trust made by Thomas B. Smith, dated the 8th day of July, 1924, its successors and assigns the above described mortgage both the note and deed hereby secured and all its right title and interest by virtue thereof and in and to the estate described therein to have and to hold the same with the tenements and appurtenances thereof to the said Washington Trust Company, as trustee under deed of trust made by Thomas B. Smith, dated the 8th day of July, 1924 its successors and assigns as ample and complete as if the mortgage were the same, hereby releasing and discharging the said the Washington Trust Company as trustee under deed of trust made by Thomas B. Smith, dated the 8th day of July, 1924, its successors and assigns, as the attorney or attorneys involved in record of said mortgage unless and with all the powers in said grant limited but containing an indemnity whereas the seal the Washington Trust Company has manner caused their seal to be affixed and signed by its duly authorized officers and to wit to be attested and witnessed this 11th day of June in the year one thousand one thousand one hundred and twenty three. Witness Jane Martin clerk treasurer The Washington Trust Company By Everett Barnes Treasurer. State of Rhode Island ss. County of Washington ss. I, Joy Dexter, in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, on this 11th day of June, 1923 before me personally came Brett Pratt to me known who, after being by me duly sworn did state and say that he resides at Westerly, Rhode Island and that he is a officer of the Washington Trust Company, the corporation described in and with aforementioned the foregoing instrument that he made the seal of the corporation, and that the seal affixed to said instrument is such and that it was so affixed by order of the board of directors, and that he signed his name there as the free act and deed of said corporation. (Signed) Robertson Notary Public Recorded June 14 1923 at 10 15 o'clock A.M. [Signature] and my fee 2 dollars. Tom Clark Town Clerk

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.