Concord, Mass.
1909.
May 1
  It must have been four or five years ago
that Henry P. Richardson found a pair of Box Tortoises
together at the foot of Fairhaven Cliff and sent them
to me by his son. I liberated them near Pulpit Rock
within seventy yards of this picturesque ledge but on
the opposite (south) side of the swampy run I found
what was no doubt one of them to-day. It
had apparently been dead two or three weeks for
the soft parts were so decomposed as to be in
a semi liquid condition & the shell had begun to
slough off in places. The creature lay in the middle 
of a wood path into which it may have crawled
to bask in the sun early last month. It is
possible the Crows killed it but if so they had
not apparently eaten any of the flesh & I am more
inclined to believe it died a normal death. Neither of
these turtles has been seen before since they were liberated here.
Box Tortoise found dead in Barrett Run.