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MORTGAGE DEED 659
We, HILYER G. SENNING and BABELLE S. SENNING, husband and wife, both of the city
of Dedham, County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts consideraton paid, grant to
NELSON H. THORP and HOWARD E. THORP, both of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State
of Rhode Island as Joint Tenants and Tenants in common remaining, to the survivor with MORTGAGE
COVENANTS, to secure the payment of FIVE THOUSAND (5,000) Dollars in Three (3) years with interest
at Five (5%) per cent per annum, payable quarter-annually in advance, as provided in a certain
negotiable promissory note of even date herewith.
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
A certain tract of parcel of land situated and lying in the Town of Charlestown,
County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, with all the buildings and improvements
thereon, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, is more fully and particularly described
as follows, to wit:
Lot #104 as shown and delineated on a certain plan or plat entitled "Plat of
Governmental federal headquarter, Charlestown, R.I.," Thorp & Training, Inc., Agents,
50 feet to the inch, October 1936, Rossel A. Ellis, Engineer, "which plan is on file
in the Town Clerk's office in Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, in Plat Book 11 at
Page 29 and 30, and is hereby expressely made a part hereof for the purposes of a
more complete description of the premises herein conveyed, and is further recorded in
Plat 1 Pages 25 and 29. Said lot is bounded southerly seventy-five (75) feet by Sur-
face roadway, easterly seventy-five (75) feet by Lot #105, northerly seventy-five (75) feet by
northerly seventy-five (75) feet in part by land of Edward J. Catley et ux and by lands of
Persony seventy-five (75) feet in part by land of Edward J. Catley et ux and by lands of
Edwin B. Spring et ux and by lands of Persony, and westerly seventy-five (75) feet by
Estate of Legona Worrill.
Being the same premises which were conveyed to said Hilyer G. Senning and Babele
S. Senning by Bruce M. Porter by a Deed dated January 10, 1942 and recorded in
Book 20 at Pages 637 et seq of the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown,
Rhode Island and including all the rights, ways, privileges and appurtenances thereunto
subject to all the restrictions and conditions set forth and contained in the
aforesaid said deed.
This mortgage is subject to a prior mortgage dated March 23, 1945 and recorded
in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book 29 at Pages
383, 384 and 385.
This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER
OF SALE.
WITNESS our hands this 17th day of February, 1948.
In presence of:
Annie E. Sullivan
HILYER G. SENNING
BABELLE S. SENNING
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, ETC.)
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County of Norfolk )
In Dedham on the 17th day of February, 1948 before me personally appeared Hilyer G.
Senning and Babelle S. Senning 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.
LESLIE B. VAUGHAN (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
My commission expires March 1, 1951.
(FOR DISCHARGE OF THIS MORTGAGE, SEE PAGE 660)
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
CLERK'S OFFICE OF SUPERIOR COURT
Suffolk, SS.
I, THOMAS DORGAN, of Boston, in said County, said County duly elected; qualified and sworn in Clerk of
the Superior Court, for and within said County and Commonwealth, dwelling in Boston in said County,
said Court being a Court of Record with a seal with which it is hereunto affixed, the records and seal of which
I have the custody of certify that the following is a true and correct copy of the acknowledgment of
verify and attest that Leslie B. Vaughan who before me annexed the aforesaid affidavit, proved or acknowledged
the same to be his act and deed. The said Leslie B. Vaughan a Notary Public in and for the Commonwealth,
doing business in said County, duly appointed, commissioned, qualified, sworn and
acting as such, and duly admitted to practice as such, and duly authorized by the laws of
said Commonwealth to act as such and such; and also duly admitted and qualified to administer
oaths and affirmations and to take affidavits and to take further proofs of acknowledgments of deeds of conveyances for lands; came
before me, administrator of oaths and affirmations, and being duly sworn, did depose and say that
therein, wherever scrutinized and however bounded; that he was at the time of the taking of the aforesaid
affidavit duly commissioned and qualified as a Notary Public and that the seal hereunto annexed is the right
to be given by his official acts; that I am well acquainted with his signature and handwriting, and
I verily believe that the signature is his and that the seal is his official seal and that it was affixed by him,
and further, that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said
Commonwealth.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Boston, in said County and Commonwealth, this
17th day of February A. D. 1948
THOMAS DORGAN, Clerk (L. S.)
Received for record February 19th, A. D. 1948 at 10:15 o'clock, by [?] and recorded by
Town Clerk