Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-14
LAsvRMrHs OF DEEDS.
Queer Things Brought to Lighs In Ez
animation of oid Papers.


Queer Things Brought to Lighs In Ex
animation ~ Ois Papers.
United States District Attorney Allen
has completed an examination of the
title to the real estate in the town oi
Winthrop. which has been purchased
by the United States government for a
mortar battery
The amount OF labor necessary TO
perform this work properly has been
Immense, and the result is an abstract
comprising over 200 closely printed type
written pages
Mr.. Allen has paid out to the Suffolk
county probate Office over Sl25 for Ger
tiiicates where the title showed that the
property descended by WILL and has
secured from different persons about
$50 deeds and releases
The examination showed many curl
Gus and interesting things.
A part OF the premises belonged to
Governor Winthrop. and the town
records of Boston contained minutes
Of the grant of Winthrop farm, in
| which there occurs the following:
There is granted to the governor,
John Winthrop. the twoe hills next to
Pullen point, with some barren marsh
ADJOINING thereunto, provided it be
noe hindranee to the tOwie's setting
up ware in Fishers creek or fishing
for bass there
This land was conveyed by Governor
Winthrop TO his son. Deanp Winthrop,
who In l704 devised the same by will
to his grandchildren 1t also appears
that Governor Bowdoin was an owner /
of the farm at one time. aud at his /
death left it to his children. one Of /
whom was Elizabeth. wife OF Sir John |
Temple. In this will Oliver Wendell
and Nathaniel Appleton were appointed
trustees, a codicil subsequently, max
ing Oliver Wendell sole trustee
The estate Of Governor RuwdOin was
afterward divided. and Lady Temple
was apportioned 205 acres al Pulling
Point, part of which the government
has now purchased from the Winthrop
Shore Land company. In the will OF
Lady Temple which becomes part of
the chain of title, is n clause providing
that at her decease all her domeStics
shall be suitably clad in mourning.
The inventory of Lady Temples es-
ate in 1910 shows something of the
Use of land values in Boston. the store
Is State street and land under the same
being valued at 81. SOC; the store in the
ear of As at $500, a store in Mer
chants row, with land, .S5. 0OO the
iarn at Pudding Point" s., OOO; land
v II Franklin place, S12,000 and at
f8 at $500
Another lot started with the title in
James Bill in 1857. and was searched
through a labyrinth of deeds, wills and
,ther documents until it was traced to
he hands of the parties from whom
he United States purchased.
Another small tract of marsh land
Ytarted with James Bill, and was traced
lown to about 1870, when all trace of
ownership was lost, and all efforts to
discover the missing link have failed.
The tract is not of any particular value,
and probably no further attempts will
be made to deal with il
singular feature of the titles is that
IN the case of the Winthrop farm it
passed down from one to another of
the members Of the New England faini-
lies celebrated for the azure tinge of
their blood, remaining with this class
Of persons to the very last, while in the
cases of the lots side by side with it the
owners were in no case people Of promi-
nence, and in many instances being IL
literate persons who. in signing the
deed, made their marks something
which does not occur at all in the title
Of the Winthrop farm.
The government pays about $50, 900
for the whole tract purchased. -Bos-
ton Globe