Box 1

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19th century copy of a plan with the description, "This plan is a figure of the ancient township of Mendon & how it is already divided" with the note "on file of plans 1700 to 1715."

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Handwritten copy of a deed between grantor John Owosamog and grantees Moses Parker, Nathaniel Morse, Nathaniell Johnson, and Jonathan Fairebanks for land between "Sherborne, Mendham, Hassnamisko, Marlborrough, and Framingham."

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Large handwritten deed between the "Committee or Agents for the Indian Proprietors of the Plantation of Natick" and the Trustees for 800 acres of land in Middlesex County known as Magunkaquog, bordered in part by Mendon and the Sudbury River. The document represents one part of the indenture and is signed by Thomas Waban and Benjamin Tray and with the marks of Samuel Abraham, Solomon Thomas, Abraham Speen, Thomas Pegun, and Isaac Nehemiah.

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This series contains documents kept by the Trustees in the course of administering the Charity of Edward Hopkins and includes meeting minutes and records of votes, committee reports, correspondence, and legal records.

Records of the Trustees dating from after 1800 are listed in the finding aid, but have not been fully described.

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Three-page handwritten document detailing a chronology of events relating to the legacy of Edward Hopkins between 1657 and 1709 and two questions regarding rights to the bequest and recovery of the funds, followed by the opinions of Sir Peter King (signed December 9, 1708) and T. Vernon (signed December 16, 1708).

Scope and Contents: Thirteen-page handwritten copy of the decree, based on a December 1712 report of the Attorney General Edward Northey, signed on March 19, 1712/13 by Symon Lord Harcourt, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Great Britain. The decree set forth the responsibility of Exton to satisfy the Hopkins' bequest and directed the purchase land in Massachusetts as an investment to support the study of divinity at Harvard College and a Cambridge grammar school. The document specifies the apportionment and use...

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One-page handwritten petition of John How to the Trustees requesting time for the tenants to raise money to pay their rents.

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This sub-subseries contains petitions and correspondence created by Hopkinton residents in 1797, and in 1809 through 1811, regarding to the position of the Hopkinton Register of Deeds and the custody of the town record books; a copy of the 1813 legislation; and two documents pertaining to the appointment of a Register of Deeds.

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This subseries contains abstracts of probate and land records related to Hopkinton land compiled in the 1830s.

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This subseries contains abstracts of probate and land records related to Hopkinton land compiled in the 1830s.