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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