Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 458)

June 22^d [18]69

Edward Baldwin Esq.

Dear Sir: --

Yours of 9^th with $4. for
bill of 1868 on the I.P. Davis lot was duly re-
ceived, as also yours of 21^st inquiring after
same. --

I have had yours of 9^th with bill receipted
and an envelope addressed to you lying before
me ever since, waiting for me to see F.O.
Prince Esq about the succession to the
lot, so that I might reply to you
understandingly. I called several times
& could not find him in, and on Satur-
day did see him, & should have
written you yesterday if I had had
time.

As I am accustomed to gather
from the Probate offices the facts con-
nected with the estate of deceased
persons as bearing upon the
inheritance of their burial lots, I had
noted an intricate class of facts con-
nected with the Davis Estate. By our
Charter, a burial lot is real estate,
subject to the rules of descent & devise
applicable to other real estate. -- And
when a proprietor dies our board
of Trustees are required to designate
which one of his heirs or devisees
shall represent a lot. After the death
of Mr Davis, Mrs Davis was so
designated. Upon her death a vacancy
has occurred in the representation.

I find from Mr Davis' will that
one half of his estate was disposed
of to certain of his heirs under trust --
the other half to Mrs D. for life,
with power in her to appoint in what
manner it should go after her death.
Mrs Davis, after certain legacies, gives
her half of the residence to Mrs Wood &

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