Mount Auburn Cemetery

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16 Pemberton Sq.

May 9 [186]8

Geo W^m Bond Esq

Dear Sir,

Capt. Winsor says that you have requested him to sell two old lots belonging to the Corporation. I presume you mean those contained on your annual report nos. 567 & 592. --

Lot 567 on Indian Ridge Path belonged to Sam^l S. Curtis, which he transf^d to the Corpⁿ Nov. 1, 1853 for $100. -- The number has been applied to a lot in another part of the Cemetery & such lot has been sold. The land which is nearly identical with old 567 on Indian Ridge, as I find by plan, is shown by the record to have been sold on the 12^th of July 1864 as lot 3493 on Rosebay Av. to Mrs B.C. Clark for $360. But there are 480 feet in lot 3497 while 567 contained but 300 ft --

Lot 592 was on Mayflower Path (as then named). This ^^{with the tomb} the Corpⁿ bought June 14, 1862 of James Phalen for $215.

The land has since been graded, & if not already sold as some new lot near the junction of Ash Av. with Fountain (on Ash) very soon will be. The locality is probably ^^partly in the rear of lot 3608 cor. of Fountain & Ash, & partly covered by lot 3608 -- which was sold, to the heirs of Eli Jones for $2 per foot.

If the Horticultural Society have shared a second time without right in the sales, it is probably not worth while to disturb it now.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Trustees June 8^t, 1870.

2520. George H. Felton of New York City, son of John Felton, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Twenty=five hundred and twenty.

2955 Sarah R. Viau of Boston, sister of John Frederic Marsh, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Twenty=nine hundred & fifty=five.

3241 Francis Cabot of Brookline, son of Frederic Cabot, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=two hundred & forty=one.

3932 Mary T. Hammond, of Arlington, daughter of Ephraim B. Mason, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty-nine hundred & thirty-two.

4009. Thomas Minns of Boston, heir at law of Constant T. Minns, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Forty hundred and nine.

(3493) The heirs at law and next of kin of Mary Preston Clark deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=four hundred & ninety=three having, through Mr Francis E. Parker stated their inability to agree upon a person to represent the lot, and that the heirs will acquiesce in the designation of such person by the Trustees, it was

Voted, – that Mr. Benjamin C. Clark of West Roxbury be, and he is hereby designated by the Board of Trustees to represent the said Lot numbered Thirty=four hundred & ninety=three, the said Benjamin C. being a son of the said deceased proprietor.

Adjourned. Sam^l. Batchelder Jr., Secretary.

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