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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, NORMA G. JACKSON, of the Town of
Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to
LEON M. GRINELL, of said Town, County and State with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the pay-
ment of SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS (600) in one year with interest at six (6) per centum, per annum,
payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even
date herewith.
Two certain tracts or parcels of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown and in the
Town of South Kingstown, respectively, in said County and State, bounded and described as follows:
FIRST TRACT:
A certain tract or parcel of land situate in said Town of Charlestown,
together with the houses and improvements thereon, bounded and
described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the
Boston Post Road northwest, at the Charlestown-South Kingstown boundary
line thence running northerly one hundred sixty one (161) feet along with and
laid side by said boundary line thence southeasterly seventy five (75) feet thence
thence southerly one hundred sixty (160) feet, more or less, to the point or
place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or
described.
SECOND TRACT:
A certain tract or parcel of land, situate in said Town of South
Kingstown, together with the houses and improvements thereon, bounded and
or than may be erected or placed thereon during the term or continuance of
this mortgage, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stake in
the line of said Boston Post Road thence running northerly to the South Kingstown boundary
line; thence easterly about seventy (70) feet to land, now or formerly, of J.
I. Mansfield; thence southerly about one hundred (100) feet to land, now or
now, or formerly, of Ana Church; thence southerly about one hundred forty (140) feet
along said Mansfield land to the Boston Post Road, thence westerly to the point or
place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or
described.
Meaning and intending to convey the premises conveyed, this mortgage by deed
from Arthur J. Jackson and Norma G. Jackson to Leon M. Grinell, dated June 11th, 1938,
recorded in the records of Land Evidence in said Town of Charlestown in Book No. 27 at
page 106 reference to said deed and the records thereof being hereby made and all
the same and the like references hereby re-referred.
This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALES.
I, ARTHUR J. JACKSON husband of the mortgagor, release to the mortgagee all my right
of curtesy and all other interest in the aforementioned premises.
WITNESS our hands this 20th day of January 1938
NORMA G. JACKSON
ARTHUR J. JACKSON
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 20th day of January, 1938 before me personally appeared Norma
G. Jackson and Arthur J. Jackson, husband and wife, both 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 acts and deed.
LISTON L. BROWN
Notary Public.
Received for record January 22nd, A. D. 1938 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m. and recorded by
Town Clerk
I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage,
recorded in the records of Land Evidence in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode
Island, in Land Evidence Book No. 27 at page 217, hereby cancel and discharge the same. And
I covenant to and with the person making said payment that I am the sole and only owner of
said mortgage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of October,
1942.
LEON M. GRINELL
Above discharge received for record October 10th, A. D. 1942 at 4:00 o'clock, p. m., and
recorded by
Town Clerk