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. Jer[emia]h Belknap DS to Christopher Kilby; Boston, Massachusetts, 1738 June 16

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Box 1
Abstract:
Articles of Agreement between Jeremiah Belknap and Christopher Kilby over the rights to a waterway under Brattle Street in Boston. The agreement stipulates that the Belknaps are able to use, amend, and repair the watercourse on Kilby's land - "to bear & pay all the Cost & charge which shall be Expended by digging or breaking up the ground and unstopping amending or repairing the said Draine or Watercourse, and will do as little hurt or Spoil as may be to the sd Kilbys land, and to Exonerate and freely discharge him and keep him harmless from paying any part of the Charge in repairing the said Draine..." The agreement is based on an earlier agreement between Joseph Belknap (Jeremiah's father) and Thomas Wallis, April 10, 1704. Witnessed and signed by John Haslot and Samuel Swift, Jr.
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