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How long Mrs. Watkins stayed here or what became of the house, we do not know. In 1832 she was listed as "occupying land" here, and in 1834 only as owning land. Watkins heirs sold in 1862 to Gardner Hall and it remained a part of the Russell-Hall-Gilson place on Rt. 12 until recently when Arthur Chickering Jr. retained ownership.
299. HAROLD FOSTER-LOT #11 IN 4TH RANGE: This property includes two farms, both on the east side of the road, brought together in 1859 by · Caleb Foster. Apparently Nathan Delano had both from Benjamin Bel- lows, although there was some question of title. Twenty (20) acres of the south side of the lot were bought from Delano by Aquila Russell in 1772. Twenty-five (25) acres of the north side of Lot #12 in the 4th Range were bought by Aquila Russell from James Russell in 1773. Aquila sold in 1777 to Aaron Graves. The property went to his son Samuel, then to his grandson Aaron M. Graves in 1837.
Roland Hall probably had a blacksmith shop on the west side of Went- worth Road opposite the Graves place in 1778. In 1797 Samuel Taylor sold it to Samuel Graves and it thereafter went with the farm. There was an Aaron Graves who was a blacksmith. (See AH 263-4 for Aaron Graves.) His son Aaron Jr. settled in Walpole Valley near the Dodge Tavern.
300. TITUS CELLARHOLE-HAROLD FOSTER-LOT #11 IN 4TH RANGE: The north farm of 50 acres included the rest of #11 after the 20 acres were taken from the south side, and 30 acres from the east end. Nathan Delano sold this to Lemuel Sargent in January 1777; to Sylvanua Titus in Feb- ruary. In 1797 Titus paid Benjamin Bellows Jr. 5 shillings to clear his title. The house stood in the field between the old and new roads. In 1833 the stock and tools were listed as 1 mare and colt, 1 yearling heifer, 5 calves, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2-horse wagon, 3 chains, 4 sets horse har- nesses, 1 caldron kettle, 1 iron bar, 1 swine. His son, Sylvanus J. Titus, was living here in 1833; 1835 to Francis L. Snow for $1300. It would ap- pear that the buildings burned while Snow was here, for in 1838 he sold to Samuel W. Griffin for $263.18. While Griffin was here in 1848, the
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new road around the hill was laid out. He probably rebuilt, for in 1849 he sold to Frederick Watkins for $903.26; 1850 to Caleb Foster for $1500. Foster was still here in 1858. In 1859 he bought also the Aaron M. Graves farm to the south, where Harold Foster now lives.
301. CHARLES A. BLACKWELL-LOT #12 IN 4TH RANGE: James Russell had three sons, Thomas, Aquila and Jeduthan. Sometime prior to 1773 James bought this lot from Benjamin Bellows. The north part, where the Foster buildings are, he sold to his son Aquila. The south part his son Jeduthan was occupying in 1774. Both sons married daughters of William Glazier who lived on the farm next south. Aquila sold out here in 1777. In 1774 James sold the part where Jeduthan lived to Nathan Watkins of Ashford, Conn .; 1777 to Peletiah Hall of Dorchester, Mass., a potter, who had two sons who came with him: Peletiah Jr., a cordwainer; and Roland, a black- smith. They seem to have lived on the farm, owning in various combina- tions. In 1788 Roland sold the whole farm to Stephen Hall of Boston; 1797 to David Adams of Newbury, Mass .; 1799 to Amos Phillips of Bellingham, Mass. He married the widow of Aaron Allen Jr., daughter of Samuel Salter who had the place next south. In 1826 he lost the place through a mortgage foreclosure to Elisha and James Hooper; 1830 to James Hooper Jr .; 1843 to William Watkins (Susan Royce); 1859 to S. (Stephen) John- son Tiffany (see AH 368-9), followed by his son George B .; 1940 to the present owners. The three barns burned Oct. 30, 1914.
302. BLACKWELL TENANT FARM-LOT #12 IN 4TH RANGE: In 1776 Benja- min Bellows sold to Elisha Fullam of Ashburnham, Mass., 70 acres, the south part of Lot #12 in the 4th Range. William Glazier was then living on this tract and deeds for abutting land indicate that he owned it. Probably he had a contract with Bellows and was unable to fulfill it to the letter. He also owned land next east which was not included in this purchase but which Fullam acquired before he sold in 1787 to Jacob Fullam of Leominster, Mass. Elisha Fullam had removed to Canandaigua, N. Y., by 1802. Jacob Fullam sold in 1788 to Samuel Salter who, in 1791, also bought 123/4 acres next south along the road from Benjamin Floyd; 1805 to Aaron Allen Jr. who had married Salter's daughter Catherine. He died September 15, 1815, from lockjaw, resulting from the kick of a vicious horse, leaving a widow and seven children, the oldest 14 and the youngest two. The widow later married a neighbor, Amos Phillips.
Her son John Allen had the farm, dying in 1850 and leaving a widow Mary who had an undivided third of the farm. Their son, Hubbard, had
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the place from 1863 to 1866 when he sold to his sister Mary's husband, Cyrus Church, of Boston. Church's second wife, Amelia K., left it to her brother, Thomas H. Kilby; 1923 to Arthur H. Chickering; 1925 to Elwin C. Clough; 1932 to Jesse and Erdine Laurie; 1939 to present owner, Charles A. Blackwell.
There are three cellarholes on the old crossroad leading from Went- worth Road to the County Road by the Kilby place. On the north side of the road Orrick and Lucinda Look had a place in 1843, shown on the 1858 map.
The other two cellarholes are on the south side of the road, one about opposite the Look cellarhole near the west end of the discontinued por- tion of the road; the other to the east, near the east edge of the woods. William and Martha C. Farnham owned property on the south side of the road in 1856. The records are sketchy.
LOT #9 IN 3RD RANGE: According to the early map of Walpole, the lines between the lots in these ranges were east and west. Down to this point in the third range they were, but the south line of this lot, and the dividing lines of the lots to the south, are West 12 degrees North, parallel with the town line. Isaac Stowel (Stoel) had this lot from Benjamin Bellows, and sold most of it in 1774 to Nathan Watkins, who owned the farm on the east side of the road. There is no mention of buildings. The lot became a part of the Hall. Farm and now belongs to Blackwell.
303. CHARLES A. BLACKWELL-LOT #10 IN 3RD RANGE: In 1778 Benjamin Bellows sold this 100 acre lot to Samuel Nichols. There is evidence that Benjamin Floyd had this lot in 1773 and 1775, and that he had made improvements, including buildings, near the southeast corner, perhaps on the 4 acres Nichols sold to Robert Wier in 1778. In 1781 Nichols sold to David Quinton, Chester, New Hampshire. He was one of Robert Wier's cronies, along with the Halls, according to AH. By 1802 Quinton had died, and his widow, Margaret, sold to Amos Phillips for $300; 1803 to Calvin Blake; 1807 to Silas Angier, Jr .; 1813 to Aaron Allen who al- ready had the Salter place on the east side of the road. Somewhere be- tween here and the next place south there was a cider mill at this time. The old house had stood near the southeast corner of the lot. Allen built a new house but before he occupied it he died of lockjaw. Ziba Denison bought the place at auction Oct. 21, 1815, but sold the following January. Henry Prentice Foster bought it in the spring and it remained in the Foster family until Willis C. sold in 1916 to Royal S. Wentworth of
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Chelsea, Mass .; 1917 to Earl A. Howe; July 30, 1918 to Joseph B. Gray, who sold November 4th to George B. Tiffany. The buildings burned August 14, 1918. The property now belongs with the Blackwell farm. 304. CHARLES A. BLACKWELL: In 1917 Wentworth sold the northeast corner to Elizabeth N. Graves. The house on this land was built by the Fosters.
Just north of this house stood the schoolhouse for District No. 10, the land deeded to the town in 1876 by S. Johnson Tiffany. The building was used for a community house of this district after school was no longer held here. It was bought by Blackwell in 1941 and has since burned.
305. ARTHUR H. BUNKER-LOT #13 IN 4TH RANGE: In 1772 this lot of 75 acres appears to have belonged to John French, but in 1773 Benjamin Bellows sold to John Marcy and Ebenezer Swan, traders; 1774 to Ebenezer Bartlett 3rd of Guilford, Conn., who settled on the place; April 10, 1778 to Robert Wier. The east part of the lot James Patterson of Fitchburg, Mass., bought from the Bellows estate April 11, 1778, and sold the same day to Robert Wier.
Robert Wier, gentleman, from Jaffrey, N. H., bought up a total of 650 acres in this area. According to AH 302-3, he settled on this place and kept a public house. "He was a man of good natural abilities, but set the laws and customs of society wholly aside. He was convivial in his habits and his house was the rendezvous of men of his own stamp. Three of his guests are remembered,-Roll (Roland) Hall, Pel (Peletiah) Hall and David Quinton, who when together, were as happy as flip could make them."
Apparently business wasn't as profitable as need be to keep him solvent. In June 1788 he borrowed £600 from Jonas Minot of Concord, Mass. On Oct. 18, 1788, he borrowed £800 from Oliver Smith, an apothe- cary of Boston. Putting up his farm as security he lost it and in 1792 signed it over to Smith.
AH lists no family for him. He had a wife Sarah. His name disappears from the records after he lost the farm.
Down to the north line of this lot the lines between the lots in the 4th Range were perpendicular to Wentworth Road. The south line of this lot, which was about 35 rods south of Houghton Brook, ran East 12º S.
In 1798 Smith's heirs sold that part of the lot north of the brook to Stephen Holman, who had previously owned the land south of the brook. Probably Holman had this earlier, for in the Museum Dec. 4, 1797, he advertised his "223 acres three miles south of the street-dwelling house, 3 barns, other buildings."
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Holman sold in 1800 first to Danforth Clark and Asahel Goodridge; then to Jacob Kiblinger of Ashburnham, Mass; 1806 to Amos Flint.
Up to this time the farm had included also the land on the west side of the road. In 1810 Amos Flint sold the land west of the road, but reserved a small piece on the northwest corner at the junction of the Seward and Wentworth Roads. In 1812 he sold to Alfred Flint the land on the east side of the road; 1816 to Elisha Hooper, son of Levi. In 1850 Elisha sold to his son John Hooper; 1862 to his brother-in-law Lyman Houghton, who then lived in the next house south; 1865 other heirs to John L. Houghton; 1884 to Frank A. Seward; 1946 his son Homer C. Seward to Mary B. Peabody; 1953 to Arthur Bunker.
In the northwest corner of the lot Noah Smith of Brattleboro sold 123/4 acres to Benjamin Floyd in 1791; he sold 1791 to Samuel Salter. It was a part of the third set off to Aaron Allen Jr.'s widow. At some time an acre in the southwest corner of this piece was sold and in 1853 Alexander and Julia Milliken sold it to Amos Davis; in 1861 Davis lost the land to Cyrus Church.
On the 1858 map, there was a house next south of Davis owned by Henry P. Foster, which in 1853 had belonged to Levi Russell and was later absorbed into the farm to the south. These two houses have been gone a long time.
306. JUSTINE S. LOEHR-LOT #14 IN 4TH RANGE: January 10, 1772, Benjamin Bellows sold to Isaac Gibson (Abigail) of Fitchburg, Mass., yeoman, 100 acres (200 rod x 80 rod); September 10, 1773, to Isaiah (Lt. Josiah) Witt of Fitchburg. Some improvements may have been made. Witt also had 50 acres on the west side of the road, southeast corner of Lot #11 in 3rd Range, but he apparently was unable to hold it for in 1778 Benja- min Bellows sold it to Robert Wier. Witt sold the 100 acres on the east side of the road to Elisha Fullam, who sold to Robert Wier. This land was included in the property Wier surrendered to Oliver Smith in 1792.
In 1794 Smith sold all he owned south of the second brook to Stephen Holman; November of same year to Abel Boardman Buzzell all the property on both sides of the road from the brook south to the Rapids Road on the east and William Wier's land on the west side; during the following winter to Thomas C. Drew; 1796 to Joab Pond of Castleton, Vt .; soon to Asahel Goodridge of Middletown, Mass .; 1800 a half interest to Thomas Goodridge; 1801 they sold 100 acres on the east side of the road to Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson of Ashburnham, Mass., excluding a small plot south of the brook near the road. In 1811 she, then a widow,
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sold the property to Abel Dickinson, her son. It is probable that up to the time Mrs. Dickinson bought, the owner lived on the west side of the road opposite the Rapids Road. Probably she built a new house on her land on the east side of the road, quite likely the Loehr house.
After Abel Dickinson died, his widow Juliet married their neighbor David Clark. They lived here (he sold his place 1825); 1834 to Chester Wire (Wier) Jr .; 1836 to James Hooper Jr .; the next spring to Wil- liam Farnam Jr. (probably the same one who sold his house on the Blackwell crossroad); 1839 to George Hooper of Putney, Vt .; 1845 to Lyman Houghton; 1898 other heirs to Mary E. Houghton; 1919 to Josiah H. Graves and Clarence Houghton; two months later 30 acres, including the buildings, to Homer L. Atkins; 1922 to Reginald R. Thomas 1925; to Horace H. Hall; 1935 to Justine S. Loehr of Jamaica Plains, Mass., only the house and lot.
307. ARTHUR BUNKER-CELLARHOLE-LOT #14 IN 4TH RANGE: When the Goodridges sold to Mrs. Dickinson, they reserved two acres near the brook. This land was probably in Lot #13, but after Wier's ownership the brook became the dividing line; 1802 to Jacob Kiblinger; 1804 to Levi Hooper, then to Elisha Hooper; 1814 this and other land to Jonathan Hale Chase. His business is discussed in connection with Lot #11 in 3rd Range, but the house which he probably built, and where he lived, was on the east side of the road south of the book.
April 17, 1837, Chase sold to Lyman Houghton of Lunenburg, Mass. 11 acres of land on the east side of the road "also the privilege of support- ing a dam and turning the water conveyed to me by Elisha Hooper's deed May 8, 1822"; all but one acre of the land in Lot #11 in 3rd Range south of the brook. Houghton farmed and ran a sawmill on the brook.
The old Chase house where Houghton had been living burned about 1845, for March 10, 1845, he bought the next place south, as noted above, and lived there the rest of his life. The land near the brook now belongs to Arthur Bunker.
308. LOT #11 IN 3RD RANGE: In 1775 Benjamin Bellows sold this 100 acres to Ebenezer Bartlett, husbandman, who already owned land on the east side of the road. This lot is extra long, 214 rods; 1778 to Robert Wier.
The part of the lot north of the brook, containing 50 acres, belonged to the farm on the east side of the road until 1810, when Amos Flint sold to John Brooks Clark of Concord, Mass .; 1817 to Elisha Hooper; 1818 to Levi Hall; 1846 to his son Jacob Foster; 1849 to his brother William; 1892 to his step-son Charles E. Seward; 1923 to Elwin C. Clough; 1936 to
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Homer C. Seward; 1952 to Edward Pickering; 1958 to Jesse D. Pickering Jr.
On the northwest corner at the junction of the Seward and Wentworth Road there was a small piece which Amos Flint sold to Alfred Flint in 1812 along with the farm on the east side of the road. There was supposedly a house there at one time.
Probably John Brooks Clark built the farmhouse on the Seward farm about 1810, since prior to that time the land had been a part of the farm across the Wentworth Road.
Just to the west of the farmhouse is a small house which Homer Seward reserved with some land and barn on the opposite side of the crossroad when he sold to Edward Pickering. The Sewards live here.
309. CELLARHOLES-LOT #11 IN 3RD RANGE: That part of this lot south of the brook had the same owners as #14 in the 4th Range up to 1801, except for the southeast 50 acres. That had belonged first to Isaiah Witt, but apparently he did not fulfill the letter of his contract, for in 1778 Benjamin Bellows sold to Robert Wier "land that Artemas Witt lived on." Robert Wier built a house here opposite the Rapids Road in 1785. In 1794 William Buzzell lived here; in 1796, Joab Pond. In 1801 it was referred to as "the old Wire house." We find no further mention of it.
In 1802 the Goodridges sold the lot south of the brook and two acres on the east side of the road near the brook to Jacob Kiblinger; 1804 to Levi Hooper, then to Elisha; 1814 to Jonathan Chase.
In 1822 Chase bought more land along the south side of the brook on the east side of the road and the privilege of building a dam 118 rods up the brook from where it crossed the road.
He had formerly been at Lane's Mills on Rt. 12. He "commenced the tanning busi- ness; and not finding a local sale for all his leather, he conceived the idea of manu- facturing 'brogans', thus using his surplus leather. At the outset the business was con- ducted in a small way, the work then being all sewed; by which it may be inferred that pegged shoes and boots did not obtain at that time. Mr. Chase's shoes were con- signed to his brother-in-law J. B. Kimball of Boston, who was of the firm of J. B. Kimball & Co., and sold on commission. It was not long before pegged work came into general use, when the business was prosecuted with energy, employing a large number of workmen in town and out." (AH 90)
Jonathan Chase's son Charles had a fair-sized house and barn, which he probably built, on the west side of the road close to the south side of the brook. The shoeshop stood on Jonathan Chase's land just south of this house. The tannery was on the east side of the highway. In April 1832 the Chases sold Charles' house, the shoeshop and the tannery to John Allen;
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in the fall, a half interest to James White; in 1843 that on the west side of the highway to Gaius Hall; in 1845 the tannery on the east side to George Huntington. The former piece Nathan Paul bought in 1848; the latter 1853. Paul lived here on the west side of the road until 1858 when he sold to Lyman Houghton and it was again joined to the farm from which it had been taken.
Jonathan Chase purchased the old Johnson tavern and store and moved his family to the village. With his sons Charles E. and Aaron K., he continued the business for several years.
The place at the south end of town remained in the Houghton family- Lyman, Edward, Charles W., and finally Clarence, who sold in 1915 to Ira A. and Florence T. Hitchcock. The buildings burned about 1918. Nothing remains, not even a cellarhole. In 1919 the Hitchcocks sold to Charles E. Seward who sold in conjunction with #308, q.v. Edward Pickering sold off a great deal of gravel from this location.
310. FELIX E. ALDRICH SR .- LOT #12 IN 3RD RANGE: In 1770 Joseph Barrett seemed to own at least the east end of this lot, but on April 20, 1772, Benjamin Bellows sold this 100 acre lot (80 x 100 rods) to John Marcy; October 8, 1772, he sold the same lot to James Richardson of Leominster, Mass .; 1778 Richardson, then of Dover, to Robert Wier for £540, so it would appear he had made some improvements. Wier lost the place, with the rest of his holdings, but in 1790 Oliver Smith deeded to him 100 acres here for 5 shillings and the same day Robert Wier sold to John Wier of Hampstead. At that time there were buildings on the place. In 1794 John sold to William Wier the north 50 acres, and to Samuel Wier the south 50 acres, who sold this land in 1796 to William Wier; 1798 to his brother-in-law Danforth Clark from Sturbridge, Mass. William Wier moved to Vermont where he ran a gristmill. "There was an incom- patibility of feeling between him and his wife, she tantalizing him to such an extent that he ducked her in the mill-pond, when she left and he subsequently married again." Danforth Clark sold the farm in 1835 and removed to Chesterfield, but remained there only a few years. He then removed to Bethel, Vt., and lived there until he died at an advanced age. "He was a shoemaker by trade and when not engaged on his farm he utilized his time in making boots and shoes for his neighbors. He did but very little after pegged work became the fashion."
John Allen and Silas Angier bought the farm from Clark; 1839 to Amos Wood; 1871 to Henry E. Houghton; 1909 heirs to William Mathers
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who, with John Prentiss and Harry M. Wilder, cut the timber; 1928 to Elwin C. Clough; 1931 to Elsie E. Barkley of Bristol, Conn.
After Henry Houghton's death the farm had been broken up, but was brought back together again by Leonard B. and Gertrude S. Stone who bought in 1935 and 1936; 1939 to Mary H. Aldrich, daughter of Henry Houghton; 1954 to Felix E. Aldrich; 1955 the land to George R. Graves, Aldrich retaining the house and lot. The old house burned Feb. 15, 1911.
311. GEORGE R. GRAVES: LOT #12 IN 3RD RANGE: This was part of the Danforth Clark farm. At this point Wentworth Road does not follow the line between the ranges, but bears southwest across #12 in the 3rd Range, so that this place is on the east side of the road even though it is in the 3rd Range.
Danforth Clark in 1819 sold two acres here to his son David; 1825 to his brother Loran. In 1835 his father deeded to him the land on the west side of the road occupied by the blacksmith and wheelwright shop. Ap- parently he deeded the property back to his father who sold in 1846 to David Russell, and he to Thomas Russell; 1867 to Ella A. Russell. These latter deeds include only the land on the east side of the road.
In 1872 Ella and her husband Josiah Q. Russell of Springfield, Vt., sold to George Short; 1875 to George A. Wheeler of Weston, Vt .; 1878 to Charles F. Wheeler, who died 1922; George A. inherited from his brother Charles F. The daughter of George A., Della R. Davis, sold in 1926 to Eli Seney; 1956 to George R. Graves.
312. MARY FRANCES FOSTER-LOT #15 IN 4TH RANGE: On January 10, 1770, Benjamin Bellows sold to Abel Levans (Levings) the south 50 acres in this lot, along the south line of the town. He may have settled here but nothing is known of him. He died prior to March 14, 1795, leaving three children: Abel and Rebekah (Wellington) of Johnson's Gore, Vt., and Noah, The former sold their share to Samuel Wier; the latter to Stephen Holman. It became a part of the Danforth Clark farm.
May 6, 1797, Benjamin Bellows sold to Jonathan Livingston, black- smith, 20 acres out of the north part of this lot. He also bought additional land from Danforth Clark.
Livingston's house stood east of the present house, an orchard here about 1880. He later moved to the village, then returned here, continuing the occupation he had begun in the village about 1816, that of making steel traps for Bellows & Stone. "He was a man of much individuality of character and many of his quaint sayings are remembered and repeated.
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His wife was endowed with superior qualities of mind and heart, and possessed a great force of character." (AH 314)
In 1831 Jonathan Livingston sold his place to Levi Ball and removed to the General Aldrich place in Westmoreland; 1895 Caroline Ball sold to Frances C. Hodgkins; 1919 to John B. Russell of Boston; 1923 to Wesley C. Foster; 1923 11/2 acres to Fred Steinka; 1928 to Clark Kathan of West- moreland; 1935 to Gertrude S. Stone; 1936 to Marion F. Cooke; 1945 to Elizabeth Ann Loehr; 1952 to Mary Frances Foster.
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313. MARION B. BABBITT: In 1937 Mrs. Mary Reed Cutter sold five acres here to Marion B. Babbitt who built the house. For earlier history see below.
314. MARY REED CUTTER-CHAPPELL CELLARHOLE: South of #313 there was an earlier house on the old 1781 crossroad (Chappell Hill Road) from Ramsay Hill to Wentworth Road. This is out of the east part of Lot #4 in the 4th Range which Abigail Bellows received by her father's will. It later belonged to her brother John, then to his son Josiah 2nd and thus became a part of the Knapp Place.
Jacob N. Knapp sold 25 acres to James Hooper Jr .; 1849 ten acres to William Farnum; 1854 to Gardner Miner (Lydia); 1857 to Mason Fay (Jane); 1861 to Stephen Fay (Amanda); 1863 she to William Chappell; 1885 to Lora F. Holden; 1909 her widower Edward M. Holden to George L. Hooper; 1909 to Frank W. Stearns. From then on, this property has been part of the Cutter place on Prospect. The house here burned Janu- ary 2, 1885, while William Chappell owned. The family escaped in their nightclothes-in their haste throwing mirrors downstairs and carrying the feather ticks. The livestock was saved. It was a bitter cold night, and was too far from the village for help.
315. PEARCE & KOSON-LOT #7 IN 4TH RANGE, THE SOUTHEAST CORNER: (See #284.) In 1921 Ralph E. Proctor and Robert F. Gurnsey sold to William G. Smalley; 1927 to Herbert E. Wells, he selling gravel from the place; 1940 to Gertie I. Pearce (Mrs. Edwin H.) and daughter Edna G. Koson (Mrs. John). This was the triangular piece of land between the County Road and Hooper Road. Mrs. Pearce built a small house on the southern end, in the pines; Mrs. Koson another small house a little to the north.
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