The instrument's own words
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, JACK PEACOCK GREEN and wife VALEN-
TINA V. GREEN, of Kenyon in the Town of Richmond and State of Rhode Island, hereinafter
called the mortgagors in consideration of the sum of Eight Thousand (8000) Dollars, to
us paid by ERNEST H. PROST and wife MAYSELL C. PROST of the City of Cranston and State
of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the mortgagees, the receipt whereof is hereby ack-
nowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said mortgagees as
joint tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assignses forever,
That tract of land with all buildings and improvements
thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown and State of Rhode Island,
containing by estimating 27½ acres of land, more or less,
and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of said tract at
the Pasquetucket Brook at a corner of land of formerly John and Scranton
Chappell, and now recently Robert Green; thence running a
general easterly direction, bounding northerly on said Pinenook land
to said brook; thence lasting in a general southerly direction, bounding on the east by land
formerly of Leo Moore, lasting in a general southerly direction, bounding on the east by land
formerly of Irving Moore, thence in a general westerly direction, bounding southerly on the
said brook; thence in a general westerly direction, bounding southerly on
said brook; thence lasting in a general southerly direction, bounding on the east by land
now and lately of James A. Clarke, to the southeasterly corner of
said tract; thence in a general westerly direction, bounding southerly on
said brook; formerly of the estate of Robert Clarke, and now lately by said brook,
land formerly of Robert Clarke, and now formerly nor ou now formerly of the heirs
of George Card to Pasquetucket Brook; thence in a general northerly direc-
tion following Pasquetucket Pond and Pasquetucket Brook to the point of
beginning.
Seeing the same premises conveyed by deed of Thomas G. Clarke
and wife to Jack Peacock Green, dated November 15, 1930 and recorded
in the Registry of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown Book 34
at Page 274, reference being also made to deed from Jack Peacock Green
to Valentina V. Green, dated December 19, 1931 and recorded in
said records in Book 36.
This mortgage is made subject to easements granted to Electric
and Telephone Companies to run and maintain wires and poles over and
across said premises.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and
appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of the said mortgagees, as joint
tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assignses forever.
And we the said mortgagors, do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, exe-
cutors and administrators, covenant with the said mortgagees and their heirs and assigns
that we are lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are
free and from all incumbrances, excepting as aforesaid; that we have good right, full power
and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; that the said
mortgagees and their heirs and assigns shall be 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 mortgagees and their heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and
demands of all persons, excepting as aforesaid.
PROVIDED, NEVERTHELESS, that this conveyance is made upon the express condition,
that if we, the said mortgagors or our heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall
pay unto the said mortgagees jointly or to the survivor of said mortgagees, or their
executors, administrators or assigns, the sum of eight Thousand (8000) Dollars, wherefore
we the said mortgagors have made our negotiable promissory note for said aggregate sum,
bearing even date with these presents, and made payable to the order of said mortgagees,
jointly or to the survivor of said mortgagees, in one year from the date hereof, with
interest thereon at the rate of six (6) per centum, per annum, payable semi-annually in
advance until said principal sum is paid, whether at or after maturity, and all install-
ments of interest are arrears, whether before or after maturity, and all install-
rate aforesaid until paid, 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 said prom-
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isary note, shall become and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
BUT IF DEFAULT shall be made in the payment of the said principal sum or of said
interest, at the time or times and in the manner aforesaid, or of the taxes or assessments
aforesaid, as the same become payable, or of any or either of them, or of any part thereof,
or if breach shall be made of the covenant of insurance hereinafter contained, then it shall
be lawful for the said mortgagees, their executors, administrators or assigns, to sell, to-
gether or in parcels, all and singular the premises hereby granted, or intended to be grant-
ed, or any part or parts thereof, and the benefit and equity of redemption of us the said
mortgagors and our heirs, executors, 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 purchaser or purchasers shall be answerable for the application of the purchase
money,) first giving notice of the time and place of sale by publishing the same at least
once each week for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in Washington
County 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 their own names, or as the attorneys of us
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 of 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, whether then due or to fall due thereafter, or the part thereof then remaining
unpaid, and also the interest then due on the same, together with all expenses incident to
such sale or sales, or for making deeds herunder, and for fees of counsel and attorneys, and
all costs or expenses incurred in the exercise of said powers, and all taxes, assessments and
premiums for insurance, if any, either theretofore paid by the said mortgagees, their executors,
administrators or assigns, or then remaining unpaid, upon said granted premises, rendering and
paying the surplus of said proceeds of sale, if any there be, over and above the amounts so to
be retained as aforesaid, together with a true and particular account of such sale or sales,
expenses and charges to us the said mortgagors, our heirs, executors, administrators or assigns,
which sale or sales made as aforesaid shall forever be a perpetual bar both in law and in equity
against us the said mortgagors or our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, and all persons
claiming said premises, so sold by us, for or under us, then or any of them.
And we the said mortgagors, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagees, and their heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns, that we will upon request execute such deed or deeds confirmatory of said
sale or sales as may be required.
And FURTHERMORE, we the said mortgagors, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagees, and their executors,
administrators and assigns, that insurance against loss by fire shall be kept and maintained
on the buildings located on the premises aforesaid in such office or offices as the said mort-
gagees, and their executors, administrators or assigns shall approve, in a sum not less than
Eight Thousand ($8000) Dollars, and that the policy or policies of such insurance shall be as-
signed and transferred, or made payable in case of loss, to the said mortgagees, or their ex-
cutors, administrators or assigns, as collateral security hereto, and, in default thereof, hereby
agrees that the said mortgagees, or their executors, administrators or assigns, may effect such
insurance in the names of said mortgagors, and our heirs and assigns, payable in case of loss
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to the said mortgagees, and their executors, administrators or assigns, and that the
premium or premiums paid therefor shall be a further charge upon said granted premises,
secured by these presents.
IN WITNESS HEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 22nd day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty five (1935)
Signed and Sealed in) JACK PEACOCK GREEN (SEAL)
Presence of ) VALENTINE V. GREEN (SEAL)
$\mathcal{S}$. Tudor Gross
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
County of Providence }
In Providence in said County, on this 22nd day of August, A. D. 1935 before
me personally appeared the above named mortgagors, Jack Peacock Green and wife Valentina
V. Green, both of them to me be known and known by me to be the parties executing the fore-
going instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their
free act and deed.
S. TUDOR GROSS
Notary Public.
Received for record August 23rd, A. D. 1935 at 12:20 o'clock, p. m., and
recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk.
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 Real Estate Mortgage Book Number 26 at page 160, hereby can-
cel and discharge the same. And we covenant to and with the person making said payment,
that we are the present owners of said mortgage.
IN WITNESS HEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 19th day of
June, A. D. 1937
In presence of
Frederick M. Schoenweiss ERNEST H. FROST [L. S.]
MAYBELL C. FROST [L. S.]
Above discharge received for record June 22nd, A. D. 1937 at 8:00 o'clock, a. m., and
recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk.