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Feb.y 7, [186]6

Amos Sawyer Esq Hillsboro, Ill.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 31^st ult. posted Feby 1^st came to hand yesterday. In reply I have to say --

If Mrs Sawyer can acquire the title in lot no. 371 by deed from all the heirs (they being of full age) there will be no difficulty in placing the evidence thereof upon our records. If the heirs are some of them minor, leave of Probate Court in Middlesex [?] would have to be obtained to make such sale valid. I have forgotten what the facts were, as I do not find any memoranda referring to the paper which I prepared for you.

If you can all transfer to her by deed, you will prepare ^{fill up} the form which you find on the 3^d page of the deed of said lot -- saying after the words "Know all men by those present that" -- we _____ of _____ (reciting the name & residence of each one in detail as per example) Amos, W^m and Robert Sawyer of Hillsboro, Illinois, Jane E. wife of Isaac Brown, of _____ Mary F. wife Henry Jones of _____ and Adelaide Sawyer of said Hillsboro, being all the children and heirs of ^^{the within named} Amos Sawyer, in consid. &c -- hereby given, grant &c. to _____ widow of said Amos, of said Hillsboro, lot no. &c. As there is but little room on the deed for what you may need you will have to carry the writing up above the

"Know all men & c. (like this) [diagram: several horizontal lines] Then ^^{after acknowledgement before a Mass. Commissioner by one of you -- say yourself,} enclose deed to the [f..?] record, sending with it two dollars for the regular fees in this matter.

If you are unable, for the above reasons, to get a deed, then the lot should be represented: and your mother could be designated to represent it and she would have the active control.

Yours Respy

A.J. Coolidge

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moneys at Mt Auburn, and a person to take charge of the Gate."

Supt. to have access to books for examination, and a hearing when he shall desire _

Upon the communication of the Superintendent, Mr Rand moved "that this Board will hear any explanation from Mr Mann whenever the President shall call a meeting for that purpose _ that he shall have free access to the books at this office, and that the Committee shall furnish him, so far as they may be able, with specifications of the charges made against him".

And the motion was unanimously adopted.

Division of lot 2025, – T. T. Sawyer's – authorized, and two lots to be made of same _

Mr Curtis, Chairman of the Committee on Lots presented the following communication from Timothy T Sawyer, proprietor of Lot No 2025, and stated that the Committee saw no objection to the request being granted.

Charlestown April 6^th 1861.

To the Trustees of Mt Auburn Cemetery

Lot No 2025, standing in my name, really belongs one half to me, and one half to Mrs Susan M Sawyer, widow of my brother, the late William Sawyer, and I respectfully request that it may be divided, and a deed given to Mrs Sawyer for one half, or 320 feet, the whole lot containing 640 feet.

signed Timothy T. Sawyer.

Voted that a division of lot 2025 be