HomeMy WebLinkAbout824 Lease of land of the late Eleanor Swan for a schoolhouse, Nathan Brooks to Town of Lexington, September 18, 1827I the Subcriber, administrator of the estate of Eleanor Swan, late
of Lexington, widow, deceased, intestate, being applied to by
a committee chosen by the inhabitants of said town of Lex-
ington, for liberty to occupy, by erecting & placing a school-
house on the same, the following piece of land, part
of the estate of said deceased. viz. about half an acre of
land in said Lexington. bounded northeasterly by the
county road. southeasterly by land of Eli Robbins, and
on all other sides by land late of said deceased. do hereby,
so far as I have right and authority by virtue of my
being administrator as aforesaid, give to said inhabitants
of said Lexington liberty to erect a schoolhouse on
said piece of land, and to continue the same there
untill they shall be interrupted in their possession
by the rightfull owner, or untill it shall be neces-
sary to dispose of the same by sale in the course of
adminsitration on said estate for the payment of debts or
expenses, they the said inhabitants paying a reasonable
rent for the use of said land - In testimony whereof I
have hereto set my hand this eighteenth day of Septem-
ber A. D. 1827.
Nathan Brooks admrs #
of the estate of Eleanor Swan