Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Title to the Lot of 14 acres lying North of the last.

Prob. office

This lot was part of the Estate of Samuel Thatcher prior to 1786.

His Estate was settled by Mary Thatcher as Adm^x. Administration bond dated July 24. 1786.

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Reg^^y of Deeds Lib 114.31 Feb^y 1. 1793

Resolve of General court authorising Mary Thatcher Adm^x of Sam^l Thatcher to sell at Public Sale or otherwise the Real Estate of the Minor Children of said Samuel.

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Prob. office.

Bond given by Mary Thatcher for sale of said real estate, and oath made, June 4. 1793.

Reg^^y of Deeds. Lib. 114.32. April 4. 1793 Warranty.

Mary Thatcher & al. to Elbridge Gerry Convey a lot of land, containing 52 3/4 ac. 34 rods, bounded as follows, "Beginning at the Northwest corner on the road from Watertown to Cambridge, & running S^y on Elb. Gerry to land of Stone. E^y on Stone to a gate, SE^y on Stone to Charles River, NE^y as the River runs & bounded by low water mark to Richardson's Marsh, then NW^y. on said Marsh to a ditch near the Upland, then N^y as the Upland runs in a crooked line as the ditches and fences originally stood, bounded on Marsh of sundry persons till it comes to a creek, then on land of heirs of Seth Hastings as the fence has originally stood, till it comes to the road leading from Oliver's Wharf to Watertown then on said road to the first mentioned bounds.