The instrument's own words
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In Jesterly on the 22nd day of December, A. D. 1931, before me personally
appeared Clarence T. Church and Esther M. Church to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument by them
executed, to be their free act and deed.
CLARKE N. RICHARDSON
Notary Public.
Received for record December 23, 1931 at 9:35 o'clock A. M. and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.
THE NORRIS PLAN COMPANY OF RHODE ISLAND, having received full payment and satisfaction of the
within mortgage recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in the Town of Hopkinton and Town
of Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, in Book 129, page 147, and Book 129, page
59, hereby cancels and discharges the same; and covenants to and with the person making said
payment, that it is the present power of the said THE NORRIS PLAN COMPANY, to grant, release
and quit claim to the said party, or his assigns, its corporate seal to be affixed by Howard B. Gladding
Secy and Gen Mgr, Kenneth A. Burdick its Asst Mgr, therefore duly authorized, this 22nd day
of June A. D. 1933
THE NORRIS PLAN COMPANY OF RHODE ISLAND
By Howard B. Gladding, Secy & Gen'l Mgr.
Kenneth A. Burdick, Asst. Secy & Mgr.
Atove discharge received for record November 11th, A. D. 1937 at 1:00 o'clock, p. m., and
recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that We, HENRY GEORGE READ and LAVISA WHIDDON
READ, husband wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington in the the
State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the mortgagors, in consideration of the sum of
One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, to us paid by THE NORRIS PLAN COMPANY of Rhode Island, a
Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the mortgagee,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto
the said mortgage, and its successors and assigns forever,
That certain parcel of tract of land with the dwelling house, buildings and other improvements, thereon, situate in the town of Charlestown in
said County of Washington, and containing by estimate ten (10) acres, be the
same more or less, and more particularly described as follows, viz: starting
ginning at the highway and bounding being bounded southerly, westerly
and northerly on land of Henry Read, and the heirs of Henry Read deceased,
and deceased, and entirely on the highway public, or however otherwise the said
highway bereaved over way conveyed to the said Henry Read during the life of the
premises which were conveyed to the mortgagors by the Dullton Gummitt
Company by deed dated March 1st 1923 and recorded in Land Evidence Book 115
said Charlestown, Book no. 21 page 295; the which deed, and the other deeds
therein referred to, are here by made part of and incorporated into and made a part hereof
fuller or more particular description of the premises and estate hereby
conveyed.
Said premises are subject only to two prior mortgages to the Industrial
Trust Company, Providence, R. I., aggregating $1,500., the first being by
deed dated September 13 1922 and recorded in Book 114 page 207 of the
Charlestown Land Providence, for the sum of $1,000., and the second by deed
dated October 21, 1931 recorded in Book 125 page 23 of said Charlestown Land
Evidence for the sum of $500.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and
appurtenances belonging unto and to the use of the said mortgage, and its
successors and assigns, forever.
AND WE, the said mortgagors, do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors,
and administrators, covenant with the said mortgage, its successors and assigns, that we
are lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free from
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all incumbrances except as above mentioned, that we have good right, full power and law-
ful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; that the said mortgagee,
and its successors and assigns, shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably
and quietly have and enjoy the said premises; and that we, the said mortgagors, will, and
our heirs, executors, and administrators, shall, warrant and defend the same to the said
mortgagee, and its successors and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of
all persons.
And for the consideration aforesaid, we, the said mortgagors, do hereby release
all our rights of dower or curtesy and any or all other statutory rights which we may have
in and to the said granted premises unto the said mortgagee, and its successors and assigns,
forever.
PROVIDED, NEVERTHELESS, that this conveyance is made upon the express condition,
that if the said mortgagors, their heirs, executors, administrators or assignees, shall pay
unto the said mortgagees or its successors or assigns, the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.)
Dollars, whereas the said mortgagors have made their negotiable promissory note, for said
aggregate sum, bearing even date with these presents, and made payable to the order of
THE MONRIS COMPANY OF RHODE ISLAND, in installments, with interest, as provided in said
note, and shall also pay all taxes and assessments of every kind levied or assessed upon or
in respect of said premises; then this deed, as also promissory note, shall become and be
absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
BUT IF DEFAULT shall be made in the payment of said note or of any installment or
installments of said principal sum or of said interest at the time or times or in the manner
required by said note or of the taxes aforesaid as the same become payable, or any of or
either them or of any part thereof, or if breach shall be made of the covenant for insurance
or of any other covenant herein contained, or if breach shall be made of any covenant or
condition contained in any prior mortgage on said premises, or any part thereof, then it shall
be lawful for the said mortgagee, its successors or assigns, to sell together or in parcels,
all and singular, the premises hereby granted or intended to be granted, or any part or parts
thereof, and the benefit and equity of redemption of the said mortgagors and their heirs,
executors and administrators and assigns therein, at public auction upon the premises, and to
bid for and become the purchaser or purchasers at any such sale (and no other purchase or
purchasers shall be answerable for the application of the purchase money), first giving
notice of the time and place of said sale by publishing the same at least once a week for three successive
weeks in any newspaper published in said County of Washington, Rhode Island, with power to
adjourn such sale from time to time, provided that the publishing of said notice shall be
continued, together with a notice of the adjournment or adjournments, at least once each week
in the same newspaper; and in its own name or as the attorney of the said mortgagors (for
that purpose by these presents duly authorized and appointed with full power of substitution and
revocation), to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers at such sale a good
and sufficient deed or deeds of said premises in fee simple, and to receive the proceeds of
such sale or sales, and from such proceeds to retain all sums hereby secured, then due
or to fall due thereafter, or any part thereof remaining unpaid, and also the interest
hereby secured, together with all expenses incident to such sale or sales, or for making deeds
hereunder, and for fees of counsel and attorneys, and all costs or expenses incurred in the
exercise of such powers and all taxes, assessments and premiums for insurance, if any, either
therefore paid by the said mortgagees, its successors and assigns, or remaining unpaid,
upon said granted premises, and apply proceeds in payment of said sums, rendering and paying
the surplus of said proceeds of sale, if any there be, over and above the amounts so to be
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retained and applied as aforesaid, together with a true and particular account of such
sale or sales, expenses and charges, to the said mortgagors, their heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns, which sale or sales made as aforesaid shall forever be a
perpetual bar both in law and equity against said mortgagors, their heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, and all persons claiming said premises, as sold, by, from
or under them, or any of them.
AND the said mortgagors, for themselves and for their heirs, executors, admin-
istrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagee, and its successors and
assigns, that they will upon request execute such deed or deeds confirmatory of said sale
or sales as may be required.
AND FURTHERMORE, the said mortgagors, for themselves and for their heirs, ex-
ecutors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagee, and its
successors and assigns, that insurance against loss by fire shall be kept and maintained
upon the buildings on the premises aforesaid, in such office or offices as the said mort-
gagee, and its successors and assigns shall approve, in a sum not less than Twenty five
hundred Dollars, and that the policy or policies for at least One Thousand Dollars of
such insurance shall be assigned and transferred, or made payable in case of loss to
the said mortgagee, or its successors or assigns, as collateral security hereto, and in
default thereof, hereby agree that the said mortgagee, or its successors or assigns,
any effect such insurance in the name of the said mortgagors, and their heirs and assigns,
payable in case of loss to the said mortgagee, and its successors or assigns, and that
the premium or premiums paid therefor shall be a further charge upon said granted premises,
secured by these Presents.
AND FURTHERMORE, the mortgagors, for themselves and for their heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the mortgage, its successors and assigns,
that in the event of the purchase by the said mortgagee of any prior mortgage on the
premises, such sums as may be expended by said mortgagee, its successors or assigns, in
securing said prior mortgage in excess of the amount secured by said prior mortgage shall
be secured by this mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 22nd day
of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.
Signed and Sealed in presence of:
HENRY HARRIS
HENRY GEORGE READ (seal)
LIVISA WHELDOON READ (seal)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, etc. &c.)
County of Washington, Sc.)
In Westerly on the 22nd day of December, A. D. 1931, before me personally
appeared Henry George Read and Livisa Wheldon Read to me known and known by me to be
the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument
by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
CLARENCE B. RICHARDSON
Notary Public.
Received for record December 23, A. D. 1931 at 9:40 o'clock A. M. and
recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.
(For discharge of above mortgage, see Book 25, Page 67)