Hanover Cemetery Documents

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Hanover. N. H. May 8. 1876.

In accordance with the vote of adjournment, the Dartmouth Cemetery Association met at Precinct Hall. at 2 P.M. Voted to adjourn four weeks, to June 5, 1876, at 2 P.M.

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According to adjournment Cemetery ASsociation met at Precinct Hall at 2 P.M. June 5, 1876.

Voted that the Pres. H. E. Parker confer with Frederic Chase, & obtain from an opinion some competent authority to see if a road can be laid to Cemetery, between land of Hiram Hitchcock & E. T. Quimby.

Voted to adjourn to June 19. 2 P.M.

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Hanover. N. H. June 19, 1876.

In accordance with vote of adjournment, the Dartmouth Cemetery Association met at Precinct Hall at 2 P.M.

Voted to adjourn to same place at 2 P.M. July 1, 1876.

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Hanover. N.H. July 1, 1876.

In accordance with vote of adjournment the Dartmouth Cemetery Association met at Precinct Hall at 2 P.M.

Voted to adjourn to meet at the Presidents call.

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In accordance with the foregoing notice the meeting was held as specified.

S. W. Cobb was appointed Moderator.

The following officers were chosen for the year ensuing.

James W. Patterson.	Pres
Henry E. Parker	Vice Pres.
Samuel W. Cobb	Treas.
Lucien B. Downing	Sect.
Edwin D. Sanborn
Hiram Hitchcock
Edward R. Ruggles	Directors
Henry E. Parker
Samuel W. Cobb

Voted that the officers of the Association have the laws, in relation to cutting trees in Cemetery, printed & posted.

Voted to adjourn. L. B. Downing Sect.

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The Dartmouth Cemetery Association having failed to hold its annual meeting for the year 1879. Application was made for a legal meeting, as follows:

To Samuel W. Cobb a Justice of the Peace for the County of Grafton.

The subscribers, owners of one twentieth of the stock and property of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association, represent that said corporation has failed to hold its annual meeting for the year 1879. They therefore request you to call a meeting of the members of said corporation to be held at the office of Frederic Chase, in said Hanover on Saturday the 24th day of Apr. at 3 'o clock in the afternoon for the purpose of acting upon the following subjects. viz:-

1^st To choose a moderator to preside over said meeting.

2^nd To choose all necessary officers for the year ensuing.

3^d To see if the association will vote to accept the gift of Mrs. Maria B. Furber, on conditions named therein.

4^th To transact any other necessary business.

Hanover, N.H.	I. B. Allen.	A. S. Nardy.
Apr. 2. 1880.	J. Emerson.	W. H. Duncan.
	E. D. Carpenter	L.B. Downing
		Chas. Benton

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Copy of a Deed from Mrs. Maria B. Furber, to Dartmouth Cemetery Association.

Newton Center Mass. Dec. 30, 1879. To the Hanover Cemetery Association of Hanover, New Hampshire: I hereby give to the Hanover Cemetery Association the sum of one hundred dollars, in trust, to apply the income of the same, from time to time, annually, as may be necessary for the care, preservation, and embellishment of a lot and its appurtenances, situated in said Hanover Cemetery, wherein is now buried the remains of my late husband, Professor David Peabody, and to keep the principal sum and all unexpend balances of annual income safely invested in bonds registered bonds of the United States. the principal of one hundred dollars to be preserved and maintained intact, as a permanent fund, and the income only to be annually expended. As may be necessary, to keep the lot and its appurtenances substantially in their present condition and desire the remainder be allowed to accumulate so as to provide for possible extraordinary expenses, in repairs, in the future, or removal of the monument and stones, and for such other changes as may be necessary to maintain the lot and its appurtenances in good condition and repair forever. It being expressly understood and conditioned, provided that the permanent fund of

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one hundred dollars is always to be preserved and maintained, and if by any misfortune it becomes impaired it is to be made up by adding each year at least one half of the annual income until the principal shall be restored to the full amount of one hundred dollars. I have deposited the said sum of one hundred dollars into the hands of Hon. Frederic Chase of Hanover N.H. for this purpose, to be by him invested in a registered United States bond, and turned over to your Treasurer, if you accept the trust.

It is my wish that the fund shall remain upon the same, or similar security, and that no change of the investment be made without the vote of your executive board, and the written approval of the President of your association, for the time being. and that the accumulations as fast as they accrue shall be deposited in the Dartmouth Savings Bank, for the purpose of the trust, if it is solvent, otherwise in some other solvent Savings Bank, and when a surplus of sufficient amount shall have accumulated beyond the general necessary expenditure that it also be transferred to United States Reged Registered Securities.

I desire that no extraordinary expense nor any change or removal of stones or monument, or change in the general

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condition of the lot be made at any time without the vote of your Executive Board. I desire, as time may efface or render indistinct the inscriptions, their renewal to be carefully and skillfully made legible; as apart of these same repairs I further desire that these conditions of gift be recorded, at length, in your records, with your vote of acceptance annexed. In witness whereof I hereby set my hand and seal. Witness. Maria B. Furber. (L. S.) [Furber, Daniel L.|Daniel L. Furber]]. Mary S. Brigham. Elaine F. Grant.

A true copy attest. L. B. Downing. Sect. Hanover, N.H. Apr. 27, 1880.

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Annual Meeting 1881.

The annual meeting of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association will be holden at the office of Frederic Chase at 2 P.M. Apr. 11, 1881. 1^st To elect officers for the year ensuing. 2nd. To transact any other business whicch may come before the meeting. Hanover, N.H. March 25, 1881. L. B. Downing, Sect.

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Hanover. N. H. April 11, 1881.

In accordance with the foregoing notice the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association was holden as warned.

The Pres. James W. Patterson, in the chair.

The following officers were elected for the year ensuing.

James W. Patterson,	Pres.
Henry E. Parker,	Vice Pres.
Lucien B. Downing,	Sect.
Samuel W. Cobb,	Treas.

Edwin D. Sanborn,
Edwin R. Ruggles,
Samuel W. Cobb,	Directors,
Carlton P. Frost,
Sauel P. Leeds,

Voted to adjourn,

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The Dartmouth Cemetery Association having failed to hold its annual meeting for the year 1882, application was made for a legal meeting, as follows:

To Samuel W. Cobb, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Grafton

The subscribers, owners of one twentieth of the stock and property of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association, represent that said Corporation has failed to hold its annual meeting for the year 1882. They therefore request you to call a meeting of said Corporation to be holden at the Office of Frederic Chase, in said Hanover, on Saturday the 17th day of June at 3 o'clocl in the afternoon, for the purpose of acting upon the following subjects, viz:

1st To choose all necessary officers for the year ensuing.

2nd To transact any other necessary business.

Hanover, N. H. June 1st, 1882.

Fred Chase

L. B. Downing.	A. B. Haskell.	William T. Smith
E. D. Carpenter.	J. Emerson.	Amos B. Powers
Ira B. Allen.	Jason Dudley.	S. P. Leeds.