Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Section 1^st. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, That Joseph Story, John Davis, Jacob Bigelow, Isaac Parker, George Bond, and Charles P Curtis, together with such other persons as are Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn in the towns of Cambridge and Watertown in the County of Middlesex, and who shall in writing signify their assent to this Act, their successors and assigns be, and they hereby are created a Corporation by the name of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, and they shall have all the powers and privileges contained in the Statute of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Chapter Eighty three.

Section 2^nd. Be it further enacted, That the said Corporation may take and hold in fee simple the Garden and Cemetery at Mount Auburn, now held by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and any other lands adjacent thereto, not exceeding fifty acres in addition to said Garden and Cemetery upon the same trusts and for the same purposes and with the same powers and privileges as the said Massachusetts Horticultural Society now hold the same by virtue of the Statute of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty one, Chapter Sixty nine; and may also take and hold any personal estate not exceeding in value, Fifty thousand Dollars to be applied to purposes connected with and appropriate to the objects of said establishment.

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Corporation Meeting 21^st April 1835

A Meeting of the Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn was held this twenty first day of April AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five pursuant to a Motification in the words & figures following; vis.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn that a meeting will be held on Tuesday April 21^st at 4 ^oClock P.M. at the Horticultural Room, N^o 79 Cornhill Boston to see if they will accept the Charter granted by the Legislature for incorporating the said Proprietors, and if accepted, to organize the said Corporation and transact all other business that may be legally brought before them._ Proprietors who shall before at or during the said meeting, by writing assent to becoming members of the Corporation will be entitled to vote by proxy._ Boston. April 14, 1835

Joseph Story John Davis J. Bigelow Isaac Parker George Bond Charles P. Curtis;___

which notification was published in a newspaper printed in Boston, called Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot, seven days a least before the day appointed for the said meeting

The Hon^ble John Davis was elected Moderator

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Proprietors 1837

Pursuant to the above notice, which was published in Evening Transcript, a news. paper printed in Boston, seven days before the said time of meeting, the Pros. of the Cem^y of Mount Auburn meet at the time & place therein designated. In the absence of the President the Hon. John Davis was chosen President pro tem.^[?]

Trustees chosen.

The following gentlemen were then chosen by ballot Trustees for the ensuing year. Mess^rs Joseph Story, George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Benj^m A. Gould, Charles Brown, Charles P. Curtis, Joseph P. Bradlee, James Read Benj^m R. Curtis

Treasurers Report.

The Secretary then submitted the Treasurers report which was as follows.-

The Treasuerer begs leave to present the following statement of receipts & payments for the year ending this day.

There remained in his hands on 1 Jan. last 1210.74 sales of 119 Lots & additions to other Lots 10594.83 Deduct debts incurred previous to June 30 1835 97.63 Also allowed for current expenses 1400.00 1497.63 - 9097.20 Dividends on $2700 Bank Stock 93.00 Rec.^d on old debts, & to credit T. Mas. Hor. So^y. 45.40 _______________________________________ |10446.34

He has paid To the Treas. Mas. Hor. So^y for the 6 mos.

ending 31 Dec.	1835	305.34
1 yr. -- --	1836	2274.30	2577.64

Note - not a transcription of the page. The math is not laid out well. For the explanation that follows, consider line ending in "1210.74" as line 1 a) 2nd number on Line 4 is the sum of line 3 and the 1st number on Line 4 b) 3rd number on Line 4 is Line 2 minus the 2nd number on Line 3. What appears to be a minus sign is a delimiter between the 2nd and 3rd numbers on the line. 9097.20 is a positive number c) Line 7 (10446.34) is the sum of Line 1, the 3rd # on Line 4, Lines 5 and 6.

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June 4, 1866

204 Mary A. Wright of Somerville, daughter of Robert W. Wardell, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 204;

309 Henry T. Davis of Boston, grandson of John Davis, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 309;

322 Benjamin Noyes of Cambridgeport, son in law of Charles W. Cummings, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 322;

396 Josiah Quincy of Boston, son of Josiah Quincy dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 396;

417 Walter S. Burges of Providence, Trustee under will of Sarah R. Fearing, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 417;

682 Thomas R. Hutchinson of Somerville, son of Susannah Hutchinson, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 682;

1239 Nancy P. Viles of Boston, widow of Nathan Viles, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1239;

1443 Mary Lowell Putnam of Boston, widow of Samuel R. Putnam, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1443;

1613 Nathan Hale of Brookline, son of Nathan Hale, dec^d propr. of lot numbered 1613;

Martha A M^cAllaster, of Boston, daughter of James M^cAllaster, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1913;