The instrument's own words
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KNOW ALL MEN, That Westerly Lumber Company, a corporation organ-
ized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, and having its office and
principal place of business in the Town of Westerly, Washington County, Rhode
Island the Mortgagees named in a certain Mortgage Deed recorded in the Land
Evidence in the Town of Charlestown in Real Estate Mortgage Book No. 25, Page
270, made by Alice M. Brightman dated February 4, 1933 In consideration of
the sum of Four hundred twenty five dollars to it paid by The Ashaway National
Bank, of Ashaway, a corporation of the Town of Hopkinton, Washington County,
Rhode Island the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bar-
gain transfer and make over to the said The Ashaway National Bank of Ashaway
its successors and assigns, the above described Mortgage Deed with the note and
debt thereby secured and all right, title and interest, by virtue thereof in
and to the said The Ashaway National Bank its Successors and Assigns in as
ample manner as now said to the same, hereby substituting and appointing the said
Executors, Administrators and Assigns as the
ATTORNEY OR ATTORNEYS irrevocable of said Mortgagor under and with all the
powers in said Deed granted and contained.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Westerly Lumber Company has caused its
corporate name to be signed hereunto, and its corporate seal to be hereunto
affixed by Charles P. Eccleston, its Treasurer, thereunto duly authorized and
empowered, this 4th day of March, A. D. 1935.
Signed in presence of
Mary E. McNally
WESTERLY LUMBER COMPANY, by
C. P. Eccleston its
Treasurer.
(SEAL)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, &c.
Providence, Sc.
In Westerly, on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1935 before me personally
appeared the above named Charles P. Eccleston, to me known and known by me to be the
Treasurer of said Westerly Lumber Company, and known by me to be the party who
executed the foregoing instrument, in his said capacity, for and on behalf of said
Company, and he then and there acknowledged said instrument by him executed, in
his said capacity, for and in behalf of said Company, to be the free act and deed of
said Company and his own free act and deed as such Treasurer.
WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS
Notary Public.
Received for record April 26th, A. D. 1935 at 9:20 o'clock, a. m.,
and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.
(For discharge of above Assignment of Mortgage, see Page 439)
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convey and confirm unto the said The Washington Trust Company, as Executor under the
will of John M. Browning, deceased, its successors and assigns forever.
of John M. Browning, deceased, its successors and assigns forever.
A certain tract or parcel of land, lying partly in the Town of Westerly,
County of Washington and State of Rhode Island and partly in the Town of
Charlestown, in said County of Washington, and described as abutting
on the north by Boundary of the estate of now or formerly of Samuel
Davitt and "Commons land", on southeastly partly northerly part by land now or
formerly of Clara Robertson and partly northerly part now or formerly of Billings
Estate, on easterly part by land now or formerly of Ethan Crandall; easterly
boundary now and partly by land now or formerly of Thomas Johnson and partly by land
now or formerly of Ethan Crandall, partly by land now or formerly of
said Ethan Crandall, partly by the highway known as the Post Road, partly
on southerly part by land now or formerly of Ethan Crandall, however those
the same may be or marked or described in, considering that estimation by sorting
form of the soil and surface of the land, being the same land where the
witnesses conveyed to this mortgagor (Franklin D. Lawson) by this mortgage (John
M. Browning) by deed of January 24th 1924 and recorded in the Westerly
Evidences records of said Town of Westerly in Book no. 42 at page 400 and
also in Book no. 53 at page 110 and in said Town of Charlestown in
Book no. 10 at Page 147, reference being had and made to said deed and the
records thereof and the same hereby made a part of the present premises.
To have and to hold the same, with all the right, privileges and appurtenances
thereto belonging, unto said The Washington Trust Company, as Executor under
the will of said John M. Browning, deceased, its successors and assigns,
forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Executor aforesaid,
has caused its name and seal to be affixed hereunto by Thomas Perry, its Vice-President
and Trust Officer, and by Everett Barnes its Treasurer, both subscribed in the premises,
this fourth day of January, A.D. 1935.
Signed and delivered in presence of
DAVID ROBERTSON
HENRY HARRIS
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, $1.00)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND,)
Washington Co. Ac.
In the Town of Westerly in said county, this fourth day of January A. D. 1935,
personally appeared before me the above named Thomas Perry and Everett Barnes, Vice President
Trust Officer, and Treasurer, respectively, of the Washington Trust Company, Executor under
the will of John M. Browning, deceased, attorney for Franklin D. Lawson and Mabel M.Lawson,
to me personally known, and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument
and acknowledged said instrument by their signatures to be their free act and deed, in their said
capacities, and the free act and deed of said The Washington Trust Company, as Executor afore-
said, and the free act and deed of said Franklin D. Lawson and Mabel M. Lawson.
DAVID ROBERTSON
Notary Public.
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Executor under the will of John M.
Browning by
Thomas Perry
Its Vice-President and Trust Officer, and
by Everett Barnes
Its Treasurer