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Record 37/47
Cary Memorial Library 2011. All rights reserved.
Description Working sketches establishing property ownership and transfers, Muzzey Estate and Hayes Estate, Lexington MA.

8 items, including the following:

1. Sketch, Estate of Benjamin Muzzey about 1850. "The Muzzey Homestead, north side Massachusetts Avenue, from Vine Brook near Town Office Building, to about opposite Waltham Street. The family holdings consisted of about 175 acres." Indicates house, barn, garden, pump and trees ("every dot marks a tree, some were very large.") Tracing paper, 21 x 16, encapsulated.

2. Sketch, Hayes Estate 1883. Tracing paper, 30x22. 1"=200' Indicates location of Fiske, Bailey, Hutchinson, Brigham, Ferdinand, Gould, Harris, Mulliken, Chandler and Lawrence properties.

3. Sketch, Muzzey Land, 1888. Tracing paper, 17x18. Indicates borders with Hayes, Meriam, Fletcher properties.

Some items indicate dates of property acquisition or transfer.
Year Range from 1850
Year range to 1888
Object ID Worthen.3037
Object Name Drawing
People Muzzey, Loring W.
Muzzey, Benjamin
Hayes, Francis B.
Hayes, F. B.
Search Terms Muzzey Estate
Hayes Estate
Subjects Plans
Property rights
Drawings
Drawings, Working
Title Working sketches establishing property ownership and transfers, Muzzey Estate and Hayes Estate, Lexington MA
The Edwin B. Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library

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