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Your Committee, after obtaining all necessary information, and a mature and careful examination of the whole subject, are unanimously of opinion, that the schools in this town would be very materialy bene- fitted by the introduction of Musick as a branch of Education, and would therefore recommend that the school committee be authorized to employ a teacher who is competent to give scientific instruction in Musick in the High School, for one year-at such times and in such manner as they may deem expedient. Several professional teachers have been consulted by the committee and the expense of two lessons a week of one hour each for one year will not exceed two hundred dollars.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
BROOKLINE, March 28, 1844.
ARTEMAS NEWELL, DAVID COOLIDGE, HARRISON FAY,
Committee.
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Meeting, April 1, 1844.
The Trustees of the Boookline School Fund who were appointed by the town to invest and to take the general care of the School Funds, and report to the town the condition of the funds annually, would now present the following report :
The present amount of the School Fund is $4531.01.
It has been invested by loaning to sundry persons, secured agreeably to instructions from the town in all cases by mortgage on Real Estate, and farther secured in most cases by the policy upon the buildings of insurance, made payable in case of loss to the Mortgagee, as follows, Viz. :
Loaned to Theopolis Dame, secured by a Mortgage on Real Estate in Brighton, with insurance policy $435 84 Loaned to Edward Hall, secured by a Mortgage of Real Estate in Brookline, with the Policy of Insurance 204 53
To Lenas & Luther Crane, secured by a Mortgage of Real Estate at Newton Lower Falls, with policy of insurance 1225 00
To Reuben Hunting, secured by a Mortgage on Real Estate in Brighton 1550 00
To Samuel Browne, secured by a mortgage on Real Estate in Boston, with policy of Insurance .
811 11
There has been paid into the Treasury the principle of one note, which has not been invested, amounting to 304 53 which is still in the treasury.
Making the whole fund, as above $4531 01
Your Trustees would express their satisfaction with the security which is held for the amount of the fund loaned, and also with the promptitude with which the interest has in all cases been paid.
The Trustees in the farther pursurance of their duty have investigated the books of the treasurer and find the amount received during the past year, as income from the School Fund, to be $291.79, which has been paid into the Treasury of the town by order of the Selectmen, which balances the books of the Treasurer of the School Fund up to this date. February 1st, 1844.
In the farther consideration of the subject of the School Fund, your trustees have been led to examine more particularly into the state of the fund by a vote of the town, at the town meeting held in January, author- izing the treasurer of the school fund to collect and pay over to the building committee of the Town House that portion of the fund that was received from the General Government as Surplus Revenue, amounting to about one half of the whole fund. It is the opinion of the Trustees that the same disposition of the remainder of said fund would be for the interest of the town, and if it is necessary that a certain sum should be kept as a school Fund, in order to avoid any danger from reversion, the town may become the borrowers and be responsible to the trustees in the same manner as individuals at present do, such a provision would place the security of the school Fund beyond a question, and relieve the trustees from a great share of the perplexing duty incumbent upon them of attending annually to the numerous policies of insurance and other
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securities held for the fund ; at the same time it would render it unnec- essary for the town to borrow so large a sum of money at this time, as it would give the town immediate control of its own resources.
Prompted by these considerations, your trustees would therefore recommend that. the Treasurer of the school fund be directed to collect the mony loaned as soon as practicable, without serious inconvenience to the parties owing the money, either by a transfer of the securities held, or by collections as circumstances may require, and pay the same into the Treasury of the Town to meet the expenses of building the town house.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
CHARLES STEARNS, JR., DANIEL SANDERSON, JAMES ROBINSON,
- Trustees of
Brookline School Fund.
Voted, That the report be accepted, and adopted.
REPORT.
Your selectmen would submit the following report agreeable to the duty assigned them by the Revised Statutes Chapter 25th Section 29th that there are now erected at every necessary place within the town suitable guide posts with boards annexed agreeable to the requirement of the law and that in our opinion it is not needful to erect or maintain any more.
DANIEL SANDERSON, Chairman.
They would also report that they have not been inattentive to the duty assigned them by the Town relative to obtaining a place for the better accommodation of the poor, but no place during the past year has been offered for sale, on such conditions as we should feel ourselves justified in recommending to the town to purchase, but we would recommend the continuance of such a committee as shall have an eye to this subject since by having a part of Roxbury annexed we have had two added to our list.
11 entire
DANIEL SANDERSON, Chairman.
2 in part.
Reports of Selectmen accepted by Vote.
Moved by Augustus Aspinwall Seconded by Samuel A. Walker That the Vote passed 25th March authorizing the Selectmen to fill up the Brook on Washington Street be reconsidered.
Voted in the Negative.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
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Meeting, April 29, 1844.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in Elections, to bring in to the Selectmen, at the Centre School house in said town on Mon- day the twenty-ninth day of April current at Two O'clock in the afternoon, their votes for Three County Commissioners & One special Commissioner to complete the number required for County of Norfolk.
Hereof fail not & make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place above mentioned.
Given under our hands and seals this Eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-four.
DANIEL SANDERSON DAVID COOLIDGE, THOMAS GRIGGS,
Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, April 27, 1844.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the within named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within men- tioned.
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
A meeting was held agreeably to the foregoing Warrant, and the following Votes were given in :
For County Commissioners. Whole No. 24.
For Samuel P. Loud of Dorchester twenty-four.
" Joseph Howes of Walpole twenty-four.
' James C. Doane of Cohasset twenty-three.
" Nathan Jones One.
For Special Commissioner. Whole No. twenty-four.
For Benjamin P. Williams of Roxbury twenty-three.
" Leonard Everett of Canton One.
Adjourned without day.
OTIS WITHINGTON,
Town Clerk.
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At the adjourned Special March Meeting held April 1, 1844, at Lyceum Hall, The following Vote was passed :
(Omitted in the records of that meeting.) [See page 129.]
Voted, That the building Committee be authorized to erect a building for the Town Hall two Stories high, and that the Hall be finished in the upper story, leaving the lower story for any use the Town may hereafter direct, making, however, such partitions as windows and doors as may be necessary for school rooms, if the Town should hereafter at any time decide so to use it.
OTIS WITHINGTON,
Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Four. AN ACT TO ANNEX A PART OF THE TOWN OF ROXBURY TO THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
SECTION 1. Jeremiah Lyon, with all the other persons, their polls and estates, and all other lands lying within a line beginning in the centre of Muddy Brook, at the junction thereof with another brook running between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam road, and at a post there set, and running southerly and westerly by the centre of said Muddy Brook through the estate of Henry S. Ward, thence following the centre of said brook through the land of Samuel Wyman until it meets a stone wall dividing said Wyman's land from the land of Joseph Curtis, thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction until it meets the present line of division between Roxbury and Brook- line, as laid down on a plan by E. F. Woodward, Esq., Surveyor, dated the eight day of February, eighteen hundred forty-one, are hereby set off from the town of Roxbury and annexed to the town of Brookline, in the County of Norfolk.
SECTION 2. The land hereby set off from Roxbury to Brookline, and the persons residing thereon, shall be liable and holden to pay their just. proportion of all taxes which have been assessed on the inhabitants of the said town of Roxbury, previous to the passing of this act, and also their portion of all county and state taxes that may be assessed upon said town of Roxbury previous to the taking of the next State valuation ; said proportion to be ascertained and determined by the town valuation of said Roxbury ; and the town of Brookline shall be liable for the support of all persons who now do or hereafter may stand in need of
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relief as paupers, whose settlement was gained or derived within the limits described in the first section of this act.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb'y 21st, 1844. Passed to be enacted. SAM'L H. WALLEY, JR., Speaker. . IN SENATE, Feb'ry 22, 1844. Passed to be enacted. JOSIAH QUINCY, JR., President.
FEBRUARY 24tli, 1844.
Approved.
GEO. N. BRIGGS.
FEB. 26tlı, 1844. A true Copy. Attest :
JOHN G. PALFREY, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
A true Copy.
Attest : OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk. =
The following list of persons liable to be enroled in the Militia were returned. Whole No. 242. May 17th, 1844.
David S. Coolidge
Martin Carey
Dernier Hawkey
William Mullen
L. H. Howe
Isaac Dearborn
Moses Wingate
Lyman Morse
Charles Morse
Eben'r C. Haskell Chase Joshua E. Termala
Asher Taylor
Geo. W. M. Pitman
Edward Hall, Jr.
James Tilton
Aaron Libby
Edward Burrows
Nath'iel Lyford
John Smith
Elisha Hall
Benj'n Owan
Ivory Ross Russell Baker
Robert Moody
John Kenrick
Royal Woodward, Jr.
W. M. Stephens
Chas. D. Perry
Charles W. Tolman
George Gibbs
George Otis
Thomas Severns
Albert Mitchel Wm. G. Cole
George Stoddard
Joshua W. Blanchard
Charles N. Ford
Thomas Blanchard
Andrew Dearborn
William J. Griggs
John Gustin Wm. Webb
Samuel A. Robinson
William Hardy
William Barnard
Charles Howe James Bartlett
John Gibbs
Oliver G. Pray
Silvester Bryant
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Alfred Tufts Aaron S. McIntosh A. H. Clapp Oliver Follett James Morse A. C. Small Norton Harrington
George F. Bartlett
Win. Andrews
Charles Coolidge
Timothy Corey, Jr.
Eben'r Reed
John Nason
George Wait
George Griggs
Geo. W. Stearns
Elkanna Foss
Charles Sleeper
William A. Hayden
Benj'n Fry
William C. Cunningham
Nath'l Fry
Nathan R. Pierce
Stephen Foss
Charles Reed
Clark L. Haynes
Swain Clement
Luther Tinklam
Stephen Heath
Benj'n Perkins
Jacob Foss
David Whitney
Willard A. Humprey
Henry Whitney
Moody Page
Oliver Whyte, Jr.
Geo. W. Merrill
Geo. A. Brewer
Wm. P. Brewer
Charles Stewart
Stephen Blanchard
P. B. Lakeman
James Gliddings
Asel Lovejoy
Francis Flanders
Alfred Page
Simon Warren
Timothy W. Wellington
Thomas C. Quimby
Daniel Quimby
E. During McIntosli
William Hutchinson
Henry Young
Asa Trowbridge
Edward Baily
Aaron D. Fairbanks
Charles Smith
William Dale
Nathaniel Billings
David F. Stephens
David Stearns
Stephen Stiles Joseph L. White Henry Weeks Amos Whittemore
Charles Ferrin
Russell Bean
David Woodman
Henry Bright
John A. Bird
A. S. Bird
George Taplin
Sam'l C. Clark
Daniel Smith
Moses Varney
Josiah H. Barker
Gould
Peasley
Owdway Loring John C. Marston
Samuel Barker John Shepard James O'Brine Elisha Clark William White Jolın Berran Joseph Gutterson John W. Warren Charles Warren
Asa Stephens
John Houlihan
James Veasie
Nath'l Runlett
Sam'l F. Page
Josiah Evans
William Dearborn
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Militia List, 1844.
John Rodgers James Foster Parker D. Wilson
Moses Tucker
Erwick Joy
Charles Hatch
Charles Craft
Thom's N. Woodward
Chauncy Woodward
Thadeus Townsend
Thaxter Prouty Tho. Thousand George Rice
David Barbie
Geo. W. Goldsmith
William Rodgers
John W. Bailey
Jno. W. Ballard
George Hancok
William Cowin, Jr.
Charles Whitney
Edward Pray
Benj'n N. Jewett
Isaac R. Atwood H. S. Ward
Damon
Richardson
Joseph Hugh
Luther Seaverns
Marshall D. Glasier
A. H. Lambert
George Peck John Haynes
Chas. P. Trowbridge
John Dustin
George Bell
Henry W. Carr
Hugh M. Sanborn
Hugh R. Kendall
Charles Pulsifer
Joseph Furgerson
Thomas Pettingale
Elijah Hersey
Thomas Horn
Amos A. Smitli
Nath'l Brackett
Wm. Melcher
Uriah Blaisdale
Calvin Piper
Charles White
Elijah Hoyt
Stephen Perkins
Wm. R. Lawrence
A. W. Goddard
Alvin Loker William Hyde
Hiram R. Bean
Simon W. Clifford
Caleb Craft, Jr. Wilson J. Welch Theophilus Dame
OTIS WITHINGTON,
Town Clerk.
Hart George Fullock
Joseph Wild Ephriam A. Ranny Ayers
A. Withington
Geo. Patten
Harrison Fay
James Pierce
Sawyer Houghton
Silas Durgan Oliver Delino James Lambert
James S. Amory Nath'l Brackett
Wmn. Springer
Wm. W. Clement
- Josiah Varney J. E. Edwards Jessee Parmer Dunn John C. Turner Eli D. Sanderson Charles Heath Thomas Britton
Geo. W. Goodnow
James Dennison
Jolın Lorey Alpheus Foss
George Aspinwall
George Cunmon George Craft
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Brookline Town Records.
JUNE 27th, 1844.
William C. Aspinwall, a person who has long been sup- ported by the Town, having had some four or five Hundred Dollars worth of property left to him, has this day presented to the Town the sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Dollars for the Town's use and benefit.
OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the town of Brookline, GREETING :
In the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed & required to notify all the inhabitants of the town of Brookline qualified to Vote in Elections (by leaving a printed notice at the residence of each voter) to meet at Lyceum Hall in said town, on Monday the Eleventh day of November next, it being the second Monday in said Month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened-first to determine by vote whether the town will send a Representative to the next General Court ; Second to bring in their votes to the Select- men for Governor & Lieutenant-Governor of the Common- wealth, Three Senators for Norfolk County, for a Repre- sentative to Congress for the Eighth District, Electors of President & Vice-President of the United States, and for a Representative to the next General Court, if the town so determine, all the above named officers to be voted for on one ballot.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the selectmen at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DANIEL SANDERSON, [L.S. ] Selectmen
DAVID COOLIDGE, L.S.]
THOMAS GRIGGS, [L.S.]
of Brookline.
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Meeting, November 11, 1844.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, November 6th, 1844.
By this Virtue of the within warrant I have notified & warned the within named persons to appear at the time & place for the purposes within mentioned.
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
A true Copy.
Attest : OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Brookline, in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, holden on the eleventh day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of giving in their votes for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of said Commonwealth, the whole number of persons who gave in their votes was ascertained as is directed in the Revised Statutes (Chapt. 4, Sec. B.), by counting the whole number of separate ballots given in, and the whole number of ballots was Two hundred and forty-three.
And the whole number of votes given in for Governor were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed, and said votes were for the following persons :
Viz :
For Governor :
George N. Briggs, one hundred and fifty-seven.
George Bancroft, Eighty-five. Samuel E. Sewall, one.
At the same meeting the following separate ballots were given in.
Whole number Two hundred and forty-three.
For John Reed, One hundred and fifty-seven.
Lieutenant -- Henry H. Childs, Eighty-five.
Governor. William Jackson, One.
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Senators from Norfolk County :
Whole number Two hundred and forty-two. Benjamin F. Copeland of Roxbury, one hundred and fifty-six.
Luther Metcalf of Medway, One hundred and fifty-six.
Joseph Richards of Braintree, One hundred and fifty-six.
Edgar R. Whitaker of Needham, Henry Hobart of Foxboro,
Eighty-five.
Eighty-five.
Jesse Pierce of Stoughton,
Eighty-five.
Willis Fisher of Franklin,
One.
Martin Torrey of Foxboro,
one.
Jolin Gulliver of Roxbury, one.
Representative to Congress, District No. 8 :
Whole number Two hundred and forty-four. . Jolin Quincy Adams of Quincy, one hundred and fifty-seven.
Isaac H. Wright of Roxbury, Eighty-four.
Appleton Howe of Weymouth, Three.
Representative to General Court :
Whole number Two hundred and forty-one. Thomas Kendall, one hundred and fifty-three.
James Bartlett, Eighty-four.
Charles Stearns, Jr., One.
Daniel Sanderson, One.
Mr. Horn, One.
A. W. Goddard, One.
Electors of President & Vice-President of United States :
Electors at Large. Whole No. Two hundred & forty-five. Abbott Lawrence of Boston, one hundred & fifty-six. Lewis Strong of Northhampton, One hundred & fifty-six. Gayton P. Osgood of Andover, Eighty-five.
Samuel C. Allen of Northfield, Eighty-five.
Joel Hayden of Williamsburg, four.
John G. Whittier of Amesbury,
four.
District Electors :
No. 1. 3 156 Nathan Appleton of Boston, one hundred & fifty-six. 85 Charles G. Greene of Boston, Eighty-five.
3 Timothy Gilbert, Boston, Three.
No. 2.3 156 John Perry Allen of Manchester, one hundred & fifty-six. 85 Ebenezer H. Stacey of Gloucester, Eighty-five.
3 Nathan D. Chase, Lynn, Three.
156 Homer Bartlett of Lowell, One hundred and fifty-six.' Hiram Plummer of Haverhill, Eighty-five.
No. 3. 85 3 Willard Brown, Lowell, Three. No. 1. 85 3 John Fletcher, Acton, Three.
- 156 Abraham R. Thompson of Charlestown, One hundred & fifty- Charles Thompson of Charlestown, Eighty-five. [six.
156 Charles Allen of Worcester, One hundred & fifty-six. J. S. C. Knowlton of Worcester, Eighty-five. No. 5.3 85
3 Phineas Crandall, Worcester, Three.
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No. 6.3 156 William B. Calhoun of Springfield, One hun. & fifty-six.
85 H. G. Newcomb of Greenfield, Eighty-five.
3 John Dickinson, Jr., Amherst, Three.
156 Chauncy B. Rising of Worthington, One hundred & fifty-six.
No. 7.3 85 Orin Sage of Blandford, Eighty-five. Three.
3 Edward Laselle, Williamstown,
156 Elijalı Vose of Dorchester, One hundred & fifty-six.
No. 8. 85 Artemas Brown of Medway, Eighty-five.
3 Jesse Wheaton, Dedham, Three.
156 William Baylies of West Bridgewater, One hundred and
No. 9. 85 Peter H. Pierce of Middleboro, Eighty-five. [fifty-six.
3 Laban M. Wheaton, Norton, Three.
156 Seth Crowell of Dennis, One hundred & fifty-six.
No.10.3 85 John M. Shaw of Nantucket, Eighty-five.
3 Gilbert Richmond, New Bedford, Three.
Voted, To close the Poll at 5 minutes past three o'clock.
Attest : OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
BROOKLINE AND BRIGHTON LINE.
We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Towns of Brookline and Brighton, being authorized as the law directs met on the 18th day of November, A. D. 1844, and proceeded to perambulate the Town lines between Brook- line and Brighton as follows, Viz. : beginning at Smelt Brook where it empties into Charles River thence by said brook to where it intersects the Western Avenue, thence to a Stone Monument Marked BB by the edge of the swamp near the high land about thirty rods from the house occupied by Heirs of Bela Greenwood, thence to a stone Marked EB set in the land belonging to David Morrison near the end of an old wall, thence to a Stone Monument marked BB on the Southerly Side of the great road, thence to a stone marked EB set in the ground of Isaac Dear- born opposite the land of heirs of Jonathan Livermore; thence to a Stone Monument marked BB on the great road at the corner of the late Jon'r Livermore's land, thence to a stone marked &B set in the ground of Timothy Corey opposite Horace Pierce's land, thence to a stone marked BB set in the wall at the corner of James Dana and Timothy Corey's land, thence to a stone set in the wall marked BB on the Westerly Side of the road nearly opposite Joseph White's house-from thence to a Stone Monument set in the ground of John Kingsbury's meadow marked NBB which forms the corner bounds between Newton, Brookline and Brighton.
DANIEL SANDERSON, ? Selectmen ZEBINA L. RAYMOND, Selectmen THOMAS GRIGGS, of Brookline.
OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
A true copy. Attest :
REUBEN HUNTING, S of Brighton.
OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
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We the Subscribers, in behalf of the Towns of Newton and Brookline hereby certify that on this 18th day of November, 1844, we have peram- bulated the lines between said towns and find the several bounds and Monuments as follows, Viz. : Beginning at Brookline we find, 1st, A Stone Monument marked R.B.N. near the westerly edge of Troublesome Swamp which markes the corner bounds between Roxbury, Newton and Brookline. 2d, Thence to a heap of Stones on a large rock in Caleb Crafts pasture marked N.B. 3d, Thence to a stone in the wall on the south side of the road near the Saw Mill Marked NB. 4th, Thence to a Stone Monument Marked NB in the highway opposite the last bound. 5th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB by the land of T. Hyde. 6th, Thence to a Stone Monument Marked NB in Stake Meadow about twelve rods from the last mentioned bound which makes a corner. 7th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB on the corner of the wall near Stake Meadow. 8th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB in the wall by land of Capt. Clarks. 9th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB in a wall on the Northerly side of the road near the cellar where formerly stood the house of A. Hyde. 10th, Thence to a stone Monument Marked N.B. on the South side of Worcester Turnpike. 11th, Thence to a Stone marked N. B. in the wall on the west side of the road by land of Mr. Sheaf. 12th, Thence to an abutment stone at the corner of the wall marked NB in the land of Joseph Lee. 13th, Thence to a large rock marked N.B. in a swail. 14th, Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the end of an old wall. 15th, Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the wall at the end of the old lane. 16th, Thence to a Stone Monument in John Kingsbury's meadow marked N.B.B. which forms the corner bounds between Newton, Brook- line, and Brighton, all of [which] bounds we have agreed to.
DANIEL SANDERSON,
GEORGE HYDE,
THOMAS GRIGGS,
Agents for Brookline. ADOLPHUS SMITH, - Agents for
OTIS WITHINGTON,
ISAAC HAGAR,
Newton.
A true copy.
Attest : OTIS WITHINGTON, Town Clerk.
ROXBURY AND BROOKLINE LINE.
Be it remembered, that on the 15th day of October, 1844, We the Sub- scribers, being authorized as the Law directs, met and preceeded to perambulate the Boundary Line, between the Towns of Roxbury and Brookline, Viz. : Beginning at the point in the full Basin where the Bounds of Boston, Roxbury and Brookline meet, from thence continuing the Channel of Muddy River at the junction thereof with a Brook run- ning between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam Road and Post there set, and running Southerly & Westerly by the centre of said Muddy Brook, through the estate of Henry S. Ward, thence following the centre of said Brook through the Land of Samuel Wyman, until it meets a Stone Wall dividing said Wyman's Land from the Land of Joseph Curtiss, thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction until it meets the present line of division between Roxbury & Brookline. Thence to a large Stone marked RB lying in the Wall or fence between the lands of Thomas Lee and Joseph Curtis. From thence to a Stone Monument marked RB on Perkins street. Thence to a Stone set in the ground on
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