Arizona silver belt., 1891-09-19
lAoyalNras OF DEEDS.
oUees Things Brought to i.lsht In [
 amiuation of Oll Papers.


 amiuation af Old Papers
 United States District Attorney Allen has completed an examination of the title to the real estate in the town ol Winthrop which lms been purchased by the United States government for a mortar battery
 The amount of labor necessary to perform this worl, properly has hecn immense. and the result is an abstract comprising over 200 closely printed type written pages
 Mir Allen has paid out to the Suffolk county probate office over Sl25 for cor tiIicatcS where the title showed that the property descended by will, and has secured from different persons about i50 dee1ls aud releases
 The examination showed many curi- ous and interesting things
 4 part of the premises belonged 10 Governor Winthrop and the town records of Boston contained minutes pi the grant cf Winthrop farm in which there occurs the following 'There K granted to the governor John Winthrop tllr twoe hills nex, to pullen point wilu >ome barren marsh adjoyiIing thcreuuto provided il 1e noe hindralce to the lowneE Settiug np ware iu Fishers creek or fishing for bass there
 1hiS tlltd was conveyed hy Governor Wmthyupto hH son. ile,me Wnlhsop. who in lgn- d-si-;'.! ,i., ,i:. s,uue by will to his grandchildren lt also appears that Governor Bowdoin was an owner of the farm nt one time. and al lis death left Il 10 his children, one of whom was I!lizahe;h. wife ol Sir John Temple lp thi, will Oliver Wendell and Nathaniel Appleton were appointed trustees codici subsequently, nak ing Oliver Wendell sole trustee
 The estate ol tiovernuI Bowdoii was aiterward divided and Lady Teiuple was uppoTtoned 2a5 acres at Pulling Point, a part ol wldch tlie government has now purchased from the Winthrap Shore Land company In the will of Lady Temple, which hecomes n part of tue chain oi title. iS a clause providing that at hei dgceaSe all hei doneStics shall be suitably clad iu mourning
 The inventory oi Lady Temples es tate in iSiu shows something of the rise of land values in Boston the store 45 State street aud llud under the s.une being valued at S7 iun the store in the rear of 45 at $ 5oO store in Mer chants row with land Si.O00 tIe farm at Pudding Point s900a land at l7 Franklin place. Sl2,u uuu and at Is at SlS,Op3
 Another loi started with tue title in James Bill in IJS7 and zus searched through lahyrin,h Of deeds. wills and other documents antil it was traced 10 the hands oi the parties from whom the United States purchased
 Another smal tract of marsh land started with James Bill and was traced down to about 1870 when ali truce oi ownership was lost and all efforts lo discover the missing ink have failed The trlct is mol of any particular value. and probably no uuher attempts will be made Co deal with it
 A Asinm,aI feature of the titles is that in thc ease ul the Winthrop lauu it passed down from one to another ol tlle members ol the New England fuai lies celebrated for the azure tiuge oi their blood remaining with tEis class of persons Jn the very laSt, wlliie ia rhe eases of tlie lutS side by side with il the owners were in uu ease people of pru!ui hence and n many instances being Il lierate persuus wlIo ia signing the deed made their marks, something whicl, does mol occur at all in the titie of the Winthrop farm
 The government pays about sl5O O00 for the whole tract purchased Bos ton Globe