Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 190)

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190

DEED. Proprietors. &c. to M.P. Brasee.
v.p118

Know all Men by these Presents --
That the proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount
Auburn, a corporation established by law in
the county of Middlesex in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. In Consideration of five
hundred dollars to them paid by Morton P.
Brasee
of Cambridge in said Middlesex.
Housewright the receipt whereof is hereby ack-
nowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever
Quit=claim into the said Morton P. Brasee his
heirs and assigned all our right title, and interest
and estate in and to a certain parcel of land sit-
uated in the southeasterly part of Watertown in
said Middlesex with a dwelling house, and other
buildings thereon, containing by survey nineteen a-
cres and thirty five rods be the same more or
less bounded southwesterly by Charles River about
six hundred and seventeen feet. Westerly by land
of the heirs of Nathaniel Stone from said river
to a road three hundred and seventy six feet
Northerly by said road about four hundred
and fifty feet to a corner near the house, then
Westerly again by a way or continuation of
said road along the easterly side of Mount Au-
burn Cemetery, nine hundred and sixty six
feet; then Northerly by the heirs of Cornelius Stone
two hundred and thirteen feet in a straight line
Easterly also by land of said heirs in nearly a
straight line nine hundred and fifty feet to
the edge of the salt marsh at a post, then

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SegalJL

A couple of interesting archaisms:
remise: to give, grant, or release a claim to history
housewright: a carpenter who builds houses