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Home My WebLink About2841A Manuscript, unidentified, a set of handwritten notes on loose pages, subject unclear, some dated 1922To the Gent Selectmen of Lexington This may Certify that we the Subscribers Assessors for the pursuant year for said town have assessed as follows - (viz) Sum total of Town tax ----------------- $2789..96 A Swell in the State tax of ------------ 8..99 also a Swell in the County tax of -------- 4..87 Deficiency in the highway tax for 1803 - 27..56 The above sums are Commited to Mr Charles Reed Collector of Taxes for the town of Lexington with a warrant in due form of Law for Collecting and paying in the same to Nathan Chandler Esqr Town Treasurer or to his successor in that offcie agreeable to the Sate of the Town and ask the following allowances for our services Isaac Winship 11 days at one Dollar per day $11..00 Joseph Smith 10 1/2 days at ditto ------10..50 Abijah Harrington 14 days -------------- 14..00 Ditto for paper & cc. --------------------- ..50 [total] $36..00 Lexington Decbr 10th 1804 Isaac Winship} Joseph Smith} Abijah Harrington} Assessors McCoffeey case Opportunites given McCoffeey Records Values Tenney Richards Foster [???] cesspools [illegible] [illegible] Maps Carlon map. 8 Plainfield St [illegible] says will if paid filled to get across to get bay- Foster says [ce??ing] was a culvert Broady say culvert Report of State Board of Health Gammage[?] - Chemist analysis of water [illegible] - Pictures Certified copy of Selectmen's records authority to go on[?] Chief Maguire Patrick McC kept brook open ? how culvert [roadway?] brook Lincoln Road culvert been there since he remembers Exhibit 1. Admr Duty 7 app Elizabeth McCoffrey (O'C) 2. Certf copy of deed to Elizabeth McCoffrey ( " Cardwell) 3. Lester McCoffrey to Beaudy [?] new 30-1921 (B) " 9 dug thru ditch " 4. Lilly Z Aldrich, & Burgess were 13-121 (B) 5. " " Aldrich & Boow [?] Selectmen 6. Proposed agreement between McCoffrey & 7over [?] & [illegible] (O'Cuz) 7. [illegible] 15 1821 Beodry to McCoffrey ([illegible]) 8. Nuuling [?] Road & Hoaule [?] Apr 4 - 1914 9. Meeting April 12 - 1914 10. Meeting Mar 3 - 1920 1897 1. Chgg [?] 504 - bee [?] / 1914 - 354 - bee / Harry S. Curtis Rem [?] of Lincoln St. Lexington 1/2 or little one beyond McCoffrey Passed back & forth - 25 or 26 years not the way they have wode [?] [illegible] might be a little stream [?] of wolu [?] in spring & ailow [?] worth of year completely dry Book [illegible] No definite stream - in early spring & fall of year - Have hear dum [?] rossing [?] hay not [illegible] covers all over lot. Culbert at Lincoln St.. voles [?] from McCaffrey & Aldrich Have seen droter [?] there at other times before water from Lincoln Noty [?] after first opening evuedut [?] may dirty in clear 2 Edw Loring Child 41 Lincoln St. - Lex Adjoins several Lincoln there familiar 30 years Observed "[illegible] workday" XX Kind of [illegible] [illegible] & land would catch water "little shallow dip in the land" Stream - owing to weather conditions Hay - "all over" no works left that would call it to my attention. Children running all over it * Dry kind of a spary [?] poparitum [?] great part of year not familiar Audubon Road [illegible] [illegible] or to brook 3 may down in aldrich [illegible] [illegible] 4. Herbert Dalrymple 3 Sheridan St. Lex 20 yrs in Lex [illegible] Hod [illegible] hired from him 3 years not cut hay Plowed it raised crops hauled it away Just pal [?] it bockport [?} & it Nothing crossed the aud [?] where ditch dead cearn [?] across it "Brook" never saw one Flowing stream Never in a ditch like the one that there now were now brook they in an audobon Road return 5 bridge over Hue [?] seur [?] vote on it after a big rain 1917, 1918, 1919 Noty [?] thuu [?] after big McCoffrey & Milkman - for 18 or 20 years [illegible] plan this [illegible] "didn't want it "Say here in the brook" 1 1/2 acres Hay all are this area 6 Leander Wood 19 Columbia St. Lexington In Lex 25 or 30 years Familiar McCoffrey land 25 years 1921 bought second crop of hay & gathered hay never saw field divided no never saw or flow of water - bridge there- water that through thru often not clean and odor ice business - a G Lewis Hay in August 7. John P. Dailey Bedford St [illegible] & milk business Lex ing 26 years McCoffrey - 25 years Cut hay familiar with it for 4 or 5 years probably longer F cut hay personally 1921 Scythe - cut whole field by team never saw stream a wood bridge Audubon Road - 7 or 8 years [illegible] McCaffrey - to his house 1919 hay cut in heavy rain 8 Timothy J Leary Hearing 23 Waltham St. Lexington 28 years - in Lex [illegible] Known McCoffrey by neighbor to work around to reload ar [?] McCoffrey 10 or 2 years land around it & condition [illegible] it 3 years ago 1919 for Mr. Dailey - buses & moving [illegible] Cut clear down to wall moved from [illegible] and coffrey house 3 or 6 years ago community setoff[?] 9. last Labor Day 1921 shared [?] for Mr. Wood. 10. Frank H Hannaford Off Lincoln 12 years in Lexington Lane [?] familiarity with McCoffrey w wce [?] woudl [?] Gas for melibrd [?] 3 years 1919 mowed hay cut back of Simonds not interruption never saw a bridge Saw excavation 11. H. M. Aldrich Lincoln St. Lex Atty 60 Holt Street has land opposite McCoffreys saw trench familiar 10 or 11 McCoffrey Never saw what I would call a "Brook" [illegible] know what I saw worked a part next to friends house Here been [illegible] in summer 9 being water on his land on my land too 12 2 or 3 years ago new culvert after Heavy [illegible] or rains Saw water notes that came along my land which was of mud with odor of sewerage never anything like that before (drawings & odor new) temporary by Hurley 13. Howment [?] Snow - 11 my remembrance" (Lubstoce [?]) 14. June 2, 1922 2nd hearing Carpenter - not a member alive [illegible] Henry M Mc Coffrey 39 Lincoln St. Lexington Mass Lived in Lex 51 years Born at 39 Lincoln St. my father & mother owned property mother died Mch 13 - 1906 Letter of Admz [?] Mch 3 - 1908 Exb I. Eliyobute [?] McCoffrey Heirs at Law no other children had brother - died as child Exhibit # Certf copy of deed Eliyobeth McC dated April 1 - 1868 from S.W. Robinson of Lex Recorded b 1036; 215 they harvested where born No plan of it. 15. never given deed of any part of it. No everwbard [?] on it. Not taking of it by 7 owr. Lived 1897 - work done by trew [?] 1st time Dec 2 - 1921 4 or 5 men 2nd time dug ditch XX carditum [?] practicaly level no dividing line no trench, brook or stream used field for 20 or 30 - garden & (Hay waety [?] lot 16 years) XX no bridge across a trench at no time ever remember seeing a trench brook or ditch except 6 or 7 months they all [illegible] 51 years 1922 51 1871 16 through its counsel 1919 asked to enter upon property XX Doe property - never saw a brook on Aldrich - no brook Had a talk with ureu [?] 10 days ago Saw there Beaudry [?] Chief of Police laboring wer [?] Hobars [?] (14) (crossed out) 1st learned they were ther 845 I left work and came home Ordered B to remove men & cease work "after that" I then saw lawyer & took [illegible] 17. Law Beaudry He had an instrument "Supt [?] of water works"; "Ditch dug through my land" Stuff that came out & cultured badly Water flowed to [illegible] extent Bad odor & dirty water settled there. XX Hart [?] (Haw mlch [?]), Practially level 25 years ago Well there - nearby sol [?] & [illegible] cooling milk = Filled in with rocks 27 & 30 years ago - walled [?] up with rocks 5 to 6 feet deep (arrow from "well" to "walled") 18. father dug it. A never a ditch through there. no one else ever dug a ditch So if I had ever doed [?] any body Never told any body that there was a ditch Board - compaint - Exhibit III Mar 30 1921 19. June 12 "water carrier" impossible to answer buried - can't truthfully - 7 [illegible] through ice in winter sbiners [?] [illegible] Permission from Park Commissioner Exhibit IV De 13 1921 Aldrich to McCoffrey patly [?] H.W. Aldrich to Bridge chr Exhibit V Dec 13 - 1921 Aldrich to Chairman of Baard of Selectmen 20 Meetings of B of H in reference 6 to 12 meetings actuuded [?] as result of notice: 1st of water - 1914 after house built (obstructed after house built. M S Carmmau [?] Chr of Board of Selectmen 1919 talk with Last time talk with J Common 1920-1921 Paper notice to get tell pipes through land 21. Dec 2 - 1921 Beaudry 4 or 5 Men Dumis [?] Holian [?] Camors [?] Reardon [?] 8 A.M. there about 1/2 [illegible] Beaudry said he was there kept under orders from in Jeuney [?] had one 1/2 hours work digging [illegible] at land - where (crossed out) tile pipe enters my land I said take your men out Robert E Ryder give a paper here 1919 [illegible] Why didn't you sign paper Exhibit VI. Dec 1919 Proposed agreement between M CCoffrey & town of Lexington 22. Exhibit VII Letter [illegible] 15 1921 Beaudry to McCoffrey 11 [?] July 13 - 1922. W [illegible] & Bollard Avss [?] [illegible] by G Cornwell Audobar Road built 20 years ago very aprox uvlty [?] [illegible] Forsythe - actually saw him turning dirt House Henry Wall & Brooks Brigham Was this potucemme [?] before [illegible] [illegible] 2. Howard S.G. Nichols 1906 - 1914 Cross X - by O'Connell [?] water in cellar - over [?] cesspool water stood in land - at much high level cesspool pumping did no good always water in pool never saw McCoffrey field perfectly dry 3. Freeman & Doe 17 Audubon Road there [illegible] Oct 1919 10 Adams Street In Lexington lived 1900 Cross X by O'Connell old cesspool 3 1/2 to 4 feet XX what you want to say re grass growing across brook odor (Map of property) Lincoln St. Audabon Rd. Mass Ave. Hastings Rd. Park 4 Edw C. Starl [?] Cross X - by O'Connell A1 - well defined stuarm [?] from back of Bedford to Andobar Road & [illegible] from 1 1/2 ft & 3 feet ditch from 6 to 18 inches deep 5 Ex 8 - certf copy of meeting of B of S 1 Health 27 or L - Apr 4 - 114 Ex. 9 - Certf cop April 12 - 1914 Ex. 10 Certf May 3 - 1920 Ex. (part not admitted never -> enters report), 1. July 17 - 1922 16. C. Gueuls [?] 16 Audobon Road 8 years Tea & cofe - Wholesale Cross X been there 4 or 5 years last three only had trouble with water haven't installed any drains had perhaps 1/2 9 cellar bod [?] 1 inch of water from brick [?] head & cellar window didn't come in from usual side Brook - did you see a cut in land XX Teaus across at what point A Drain past his house under Lincoln Road urte [?] Aldrich land (cont) July 17 - 1922 XX Last July 1921 R.S. Wental - 1899 Whereby odom [?] law whether jollartum [?] law whether not - chis [?] and unrecoverable [?] cul [?] Until wavell [?] result if condition. (crossed out) July 18 - 1922 July 18 Nu [?[ [illegible] Cross X by O'Connell Beaudry & Tenney [?] asked me be [?] Brook & Cesspool X what is [illegible] depth of Doe cesspool, Hannary [?] Large X Measure of boebraid [?] 1. Harmon Gogs [?] 270 2. Dal [?] line 490. Need defined channel [illegible] into Vine Brook Where did MCCoffrey's July 24 - 1922 Walter F Shea Exhibit 11 Exhibit 12 Armolpes [?] Apr 24 1922 " 13 " July 12 1922 July 24 1922 [?] Arthur S Gammage[?] Chemist Analyzed [?] Cross X Measure Boeliva [?] due to less water in July & seasoned [?] hot weather Father Rev Estall [?] Pober [illegible] 13 years Returned 1903 First alled your arteuled [?] to aelueit [?] on center of McCoffrey land Culbert - 9 or 10 inches wide July 24 - 1922 Meeting of Selectm Exhibit 14 Apr 25 - 1922 Authorizing deficiency of watering [?] Chas S Beaudry - July Curtis Exhibit 14 - Beaudry & MCC Mc 29 - 1921 Answer & [illegible] Exhibit 3 Cross X - by O'Connell Dec 2 - 1921 about 5 minutes work I was digging saw by men how far did you dig Expected pipe was to be laid there (Call Tenney) Were you to decide whether Beppk [?] Why wasn't this your business by the april XX Believed teams xould drive across