148 History of Hingham. 



At said meeting, after the foregoing communication had been 

 read, it was voted that the sum of five hundred dollars be granted 

 to the Trustees for the purposes set forth in their communication. 



A similar appropriation of five hundred dollars was made by 

 the town in 1871. 



DEED 



From the Hon. Albert Fearing to the Trustees of the Hingham 

 Public Library, of the land and building. 



Know all Men by these Presents, that I. Albert Fearing, of 



Hingham. in the County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts, Merchant, 



In consideration of one dollar and other good and valuable consider- 

 ations to me paid by Calvin Lincoln. Solomon Lincoln, Ezra Stephenson, 

 Fearing Burr, Jonathan Tilson, Henry W. Jones, Quincy Bicknell, 

 George Hersey, Junior, Elijah Shute, Amasa Whiting, William FeariDg 

 2d, Arthur Lincoln, and Lincoln Fearing, all of said Hingham, and David 

 Whiton and Thomas T. Bouve, both of Boston, in the County of Suffolk 

 and Commonwealth aforesaid, Trustees under an Indenture made by 

 and between the parties hereto and of even date herewith, the receipt 

 whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby convey, remise, release and 

 forever quit claim unto the said Calvin Lincoln, Solomon Lincoln, Ezra 

 Stephenson, Fearing Burr, Jonathan Tilson, Henry W. Jones, Quincy 

 Bicknell, George Hersey, Junior, Elijah Shute, Amasa Whiting, William 

 Fearing 2d, Arthur Linccln, Lincoln Fearing, David Whiton, and Thomas 

 T. Bouve, Trustees as aforesaid, the following described real estate 

 situated on Main street, in said Hingham, and bounded and described as 

 follows, viz. : — 



Beginning at a point on the Easterly side of Main Street, bearing North 

 nine degrees West from the North-Westerly corner of the underpinning of 

 the dwelling-house of Abner L. Leavitt, and distant therefrom two rods 

 twenty-one and one-fourth links, thence from said point running North- 

 erly on Main Street seven rods sixteen and a half liuks, then turning 

 and running Easterly on the highway one rod and three links, then turn- 

 ing and running on Middle Street seven rods four links and a half to 

 a way forty feet wide, then turning and running Westerly on said way 

 four rods and eight links to the point of departure on Main Street, 

 with the Building thereon ; the premises being the same which were con- 

 veyed to the said Albert Fearing in two parts, viz. : one part thereof by 

 John Leavitt, by deed dated June 2, 1868, and recorded in the Plymouth 

 Registry of Deeds, Book 352, page 84, and the other part thereof by Ab- 

 ner L. Leavitt, by deed dated July 18, 1868, and recorded as aforesaid, 

 Book 352, pages 84 and 85. 



To have and to hold the above released premises, with all the privi- 

 leges and appurtenances to the same belonging, to the said Calvin Lin- 

 coln, Solomon Lincoln, Ezra Stephenson, Fearing Burr, Jonathan Tilson, 

 Henry W. Jones, Quincy Bicknell, George Hersey, Junior, Elijah Shute, 

 Amasa Whiting, William Fearing, 2d, Arthur Lincoln, and Lincoln Fear- 

 ing, David Whiton, and Thomas T. Bouve, and the survivors and the sur- 

 vivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, but to the uses 

 and upon the trusts as in said Indenture is set forth. 



