Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 317)

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Feb.y 7, [186]6

Amos Sawyer Esq
Hillsboro, Ill.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 31^st ult. posted Feby 1^st
came to hand yesterday. In reply I have to say --

If Mrs Sawyer can acquire the title in lot
no. 371 by deed from all the heirs (they being of
full age) there will be no difficulty in placing the evidence
thereof upon our records. If the heirs are some of them minor,
leave of Probate Court in Middlesex [?] would have to be
obtained to make such sale valid. I have forgotten what the
facts were, as I do not find any memoranda referring to the
paper which I prepared for you.

If you can all transfer to her by deed, you will prepare ^{fill up}
the form which you find on the 3^d page of the deed of said lot --
saying after the words "Know all men by those present that" -- we _____
of _____ (reciting the name & residence of each one in detail as per example) Amos,
W^m and Robert Sawyer of Hillsboro, Illinois, Jane E. wife of Isaac Brown,
of _____ Mary F. wife Henry Jones of _____ and Adelaide Sawyer of
said Hillsboro, being all the children and heirs of ^^{the within named} Amos Sawyer, in consid. &c --
hereby given, grant &c. to _____ widow of said Amos, of said Hillsboro, lot
no. &c. As there is but little room on the deed for what you may need you will have to
carry the writing up above the

"Know all men & c. (like this) [diagram: several horizontal lines]
Then ^^{after acknowledgement before a Mass. Commissioner by one of you -- say yourself,} enclose deed to the [f..?] record, sending
with it two dollars for the regular fees in this matter.

If you are unable, for the above reasons, to get a deed, then
the lot should be represented: and your mother could be designated
to represent it and she would have the active control.

Yours Respy

A.J. Coolidge