- Withington— Mather
- Adams— Josiah
- Bass— Josiah
- Adams— John
Belated rising— My Son George
though yet far from well, went to Boston in the Stage this Morning. I
was occupied in examining antient family papers, and in drafting papers
for the execution of my father’s
Will, and with talking to Farrar,
about the disposal of my farm for this winter and for the ensuing year.
I propose to leave it this coming winter in his charge, and to give him
a lease of it in the Spring— I found among the Mount Wollaston papers a
copy of the proceedings of the Proprietors of the Town Lands; which may
be useful in tracing the Lands apparent on my father’s Deeds which we
have not yet been able to find— Mr Withington came about ten
O’Clock, and Deacon Adams soon
after— I sent to ask Captain Josiah
Bass, and Peter
Turner to go with us in to the Woods— Bass came about
Noon. We examined again the Deeds, Withington’s Surveys, and the old
Survey of Jedidiah Bass in 1785,
till near one O’Clock—then took a light dinner, and went into the Woods—
Peter Turner, and David Porter
went with us— We had three parcels of Land to find— One Lot of more than
eleven Acres, conveyed by Deed of the heirs of Benjamin Savil to John Adams 5.
Octr. 1795— A Lot of about Six Acres
contained in the Deed of Leonard Vassall
Borland to John Adams of 6. Septr. 1787. and a difference of about seven Acres, between a
survey of Jedidiah Bass in May 1785 of a lot partly purchased of
Benjn
Beale, and Withington’s second survey of the same land— We
this day only surveyed and marked what according to the Deed of Savil’s
heirs I think must be the eleven Acre lot, in doing which we took in
Land which has been divided between the Heirs of Peter Boylston Adams— We marked also
what we took to be the six acre Borland lot; which the heirs of my uncle
Peter, have also divided among themselves, without title, but upon a
mere report of a blind old man named Joseph
Bass— We had not time to go upon the 20 Acre lot partly
purchased of B. Beale— Farrar and William
Pote went with us as Chain carriers— We returned about
Sunset. Captain Bass and Deacon Adams came in and took Withington’s last
Survey of the Quincy lot, for a reapprizement of it with Daniel Greenleaf to be returned to
the judge of Probate. My Son John
came out from Boston, just before we went into the Woods, and returned
before we came back— My
wife continues ill in bed at Boston— Elizabeth C. Adams has also been
confined with a fever since the 21st. I
removed for writing from the lower room to my bed-chamber, where I had a
small furnace fire made, and wrote the whole Evening— The weather is far
better for ranging in the woods, than it was in August—