Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 268)

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268

Trustees. .

At a special meeting of the Trustees holden there were
present Messrs Bangs, Bigelow, Curtis, Kuhn, Little, Parker and
Read.
The record of the last meeting was read & approved.

A letter from J. B. Dana Esqr was read stating the terms of the
sale of the Stone Farm to this Corporation, as follows.

Estate C. Stone's heirs. J. B. DANA LETTER Proposition

Cambridge,

To Messrs Dr Bigelow & al.
Comee of Mt Auburn.

Gent. I am ready to execute and deliver a
deed of the Stone estate, (which has been prepared by Mr Parker) ac-
cording to agreement. I was obliged to give them verbal per-
mission to occupy the buildings until the ,
and remove some small apple trees from the nursery (not
worth much.) With this incumbrance (if it may be called such)
I am ready to give you possession on the receipt of the follow-
ing Viz


Cash ___ $6000
1 note, dated Apl 17 Payg in 2 years with } ___ ___
int. semiannually & liberty to either } ___ ___
party to pay or demand anytime after } $6.833 ___
6 mo. notice } ___ ___
1 ditto [note] same tenor & date for 4.555 ___
1 ditto [note] " [same] " [tenor &] " [date] " [for] 2.732 ___
1 ditto [note] " [same] " [tenor &] " [date] " [for] 1.500 15.620
With mortgage of the land to secure the ___ _________
paymt of the above notes ___ 21.620
Incumbrance assumed by Mt. Auburn ___ 2.500
The amt of the purchase per agreement. ___ $24.120
Please have a certified copy of the vote of the Trustees authorizing the mortgage
on same sheet of paper with the votes. Respectfully, J.B. Dana

Memo. Per Plan.


16 acres at 1250 20.000
1 Rood 13 rods. & 8 1/10 rods. [13.8 Rods] 420.31
Buildings per agreement 3.700.
___ 24.120.

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KathleenFox

transcription needs completion - - columns of figures

Elizabeth Casner

Table is now done!
Looking at the second line down on the bottom table I think it reads 1 rood 13 rods and 8 1/10 rods.
Wikipedia tells me that "Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre[2] or 10,890 square feet (1,012 m2). A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains, or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod). The vergée was also a quarter of a Normandy acre, and was equal to 40 square perches (1 Normandy acre = 160 square perches).The rood was an important measure in surveying on account of its easy conversion to acres. When referring to areas, rod is often found in old documents and has exactly the same meaning as rood.[3]"
I'm not sure how often it was used in the US in the period but seems to be the best fit

SegalJL

I agree 100% with your transcription, but I am puzzled by the math:
1 rood=1/4 acre or 11000 sq. ft.
I read the second part as a parcel 13 rods x 8.1 rods = 28668 sq. ft.

The total parcel would seem to be 0.9 acres. We would expect the cost per acre to be close to the $1250 per acre in the line above. So, this line should be closer to $1100.

Any other suggestions?

SegalJL

Note: 2 pages forward it spells out the transaction as 1 rood, 13 rods and 8/10 rods
There are 40 rods per rood. So this area is really 1.35 roods about 1/3 acre - so the $420 actually makes sense!