- Field Harvey
- Foster William E
There came a man with a subscription paper from Edmund M.
Blunt for six or seven Charts, and to the amount of 80 dollars. He brought
a Letter from Blunt, but I declined the subscription— Harvey Field brought me three Certificates of three Shares in the Quincy
Canal transferred by him to me, together with a Note from the Treasurer of the
Corporation for 70. Dollars, to Adam Curtis, and
endorsed by him—which I take in payment of his years rent, and give him a check for 20
dollars— He pressed me for the payment of the Tax assessed upon me, which I declined
until I should receive the explanation of the Assessors promised me by Captain Souther, what the property is for which I am
taxed. I unpacked two more boxes of my Books, and consumed much of the Morning in
examining old Title Deeds— After dinner, I rode with T.
B. Adams junr to Mr Asa French’s—the town Clerk of
Braintree— My object was to ascertain the bounds of my Pine-hill woodlands, by the
Town records; but Mr French was not at home and my work is
to do over again— They were Common Lands sold by a Committee of the Town in 1765. of
which Committee my father was a member— Mr French’s
daughter shewed me the Town Record Books— I found the
proceedings of the Town and the appointment and Report of the Committee; but they
refer to Plans, of which French’s daughter knew nothing, and which are probably lost
or destroyed. The records only led me into enquiries concerning the History of the
Braintree Common Lands, which I had not time to pursue— After an hours examination of
the Record, Sunset approaching I returned home, and found W. E. Foster, who had come out from Boston for
his Sister— We spent the Evening at
Mr Whitney’s, and
after our return W. and E. Foster left us for Boston. The day was so warm that I had
no fire in my chamber, but a clear Northwester brought cold weather again at Night—
Going to French’s this afternoon, I stop’d at Josiah
Brigham’s and left the Certificates of transferred Canal Shares, for
Certificates in my name to be made out. Also at Harvey Field’s, and Henry Hardwick’s, neither of whom was at home.