Mount Auburn Cemetery

33 School St Boston, Novem^r 2. 1861

Stillman Willis Esq.

Dear Sir,

Will you authorize me to let Capt Winsor, our Sup^t, have four 8 inch granite posts set on the corners of your 6 lots on Lawn Avenue - 2940 to 2945 inclusive, that your bounds may be established.

We have sold the last lot left on Laburnum Path, and wish to have all these lots put on the new survey: but wooden sticks are very liable to be misplaced.

The expense to you will not exceed $10. -

Please reply and oblige.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge Secretary

33 School St. Boston Oct. 24, 1861

Jacob Foss Esq Charlestown.

Dear Sir, I am instructed by the Committee on Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn to notify you that they have considered your application in reference to the perpetual care of lots 719 & 720, and that they will in behalf of the Corporation contract with you for such care of lot 719, for the sum of $600, and of lot 720 for the sum of $400.

I am very respectfully Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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16 Pemberton Sq

Feby 6 [186]8

Dear Sir,

Please report upon lot no. 3356, Anemone Path, belonging to the estate of the late John T. Kelly, for perpetual repair, as soon as the face of the earth will permit.

Also upon that of W.^m P. Gregg, 2579, Laburnum Path.

Very Respy,

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Capt D.L. Winsor

16 Pemberton Square

Feby 6, [186]8

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Capt. D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir: -

Please send me answers to the following questions? 1^st Does the granite enclosing the lots of John G. Bundy and E. C. Rolfe on Camellia Path represent Bundy's lot to be 3629 and Rolfe's 3630?

2^d Position and character of the inscriptions of name and number. Are they on the long stone between corner & steps, and in raised or sunk letters?

3^d Is 3629 to the left & 3630 to the right as you face them?

4^th If 3630 is right How much would a new stones connecting the numbers cost?

Very Respy

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Wade Lot _ subject of Location _ continued _

and who was also present with Col. Wade at the time the lot was selected, made his statement,

It was then moved by Mr Nazro,

That this Board direct that said lot shall be laid out twenty six feet by twenty six feet, and to have two fronts _ upon Laburnum Path and Chapel Avenue _ as originally understood by Col. Wade and his friends; the vote to be taken by yea & nay.

Mr Mann the Superintendent, was introduced to explain the lines upon a plan of said lot as made by Mr Wadsworth; and Mr Converse, Executor and Residuary Legatee of Col. Wade was introduced to show the plan of a costly monument which it is proposed to erect if the location claimed by him is adopted by the Trustees. He also read a letter from John C. Page, who was present when the lot was selected; and introduced Mr George Holden, who was also present, both stating what they then understood to be the agreement as to the location of the lot.

Mr Curtis was called away from the meeting. There being but five members of the Board present, and one of them stating that he could not vote upon the question, as his present knowledge of the matter would not enable him to form an opinion,

Upon motion by Mr Nazro, it was Voted that the motion pending be laid upon the table until the next meeting.

The meeting was then adjourned.

Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Secretary.

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Trustees _ October 3. 1859.

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held at the usual place on Monday, October 3^rd at 10 o'clock a.m.

There were present, the President, and Messrs Andrews, Cheever, Curtis, Crocker, Gould, Nazro, Read and Sleeper. = 9

The record was read and approved.

Location of Wade Lot.

The questions of locating the lot of the late John Wade which was laid upon the table at the last meeting, was called up.

The motion of Mr Nazro pending, was, by consent, amended, so as to read as follows

That this lot be laid out upon Laburnum Path, having an area of twenty six feet by twenty six feet, with the usual frontage of six feet: the vote to be taken by yea and nay.

After the several statements of Messrs Curtis and Crocker, and the reading of a letter from the Superintendent, and further discussion of the subject,

Mr Nazro withdrew his motion to allow of the following by Mr Read

To refer to the location of the Wade lot to the committee on lots with instructions to approve a conveyance of this lot, to be located upon Laburnum Path, with an area of twenty six feet by twenty six feet, and the usual six feet frontage, with the addition of the strip of land lying on

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Action of Com^ee on Lots laying out Wade Lot ratified _

of their action in reference to the Wade lot, referred to them, with instructions, at the last meeting, which is as follows: _

At a meeting of the Committee on Lots, held October 21, 1859 it was ordered, with the consent of the heirs of Col Wade, that a lot of land in the Cemetery be laid out on Laburnum Path, according to the terms of the vote of the Trustees dated Oct 3^d. 1859.

___	C. P. Curtis,
___	Uriel Crocker
___	William T Andrews.

Voted to accept the report of the Committee.

Resolutions upon death of B.A. Gould, a Trustee _

The President then presented the following resolutions, which, upon motion by Mr Cheever, were accepted, and a copy was ordered to be sent to the family of the deceased.

On the occasion of the death of Benjamin A. Gould Esq. a member of the Board it is Voted _ that

The Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery are deeply impressed by the act of Providence which has taken from them one of the oldest, most faithful and most esteemed of their number

They hold in grateful remembrance the long and friendly intercourse by which he has cooperated with them in the care of