Name/Title
DeedEntry/Object ID
2019.213.446Scope and Content
Collection of legal records and deeds relating to the Edwards family and the Stone Acres Farm property, 1848-1984:
*transcription of land record detailing the property boundaries of Peter Randall, November 22, 1718
*letter to Eugene Edwards, from his brother (Erskine Edwards?), July 29, 1848, detailing the Stonington farm property and referencing a corresponding land deed.
*agreement re. the division of the fence between the property of John W. Hull and Jonathan Edwards/Martha E. Phelps (Stone Acres), March 24, 1849.
*probate record detailing the inheritance of the heirs of Jonathan Edwards, 1849.
*land deed, recording sale of Stone Acres property (then known as "The Phelps Place"), from John Erskine Edwards and his wife Ann H. Edwards to Martha Ellen Edwards and her husband Eugene, May 1853.
*land deed, recording sale of property abutting Stone Acres farm, from Abel Pendleton to Martha Ellen Edwards, October 1861.
*court record documenting land dispute between Eugene P. Edwards & Elizabeth Paffard (his niece) and the Stonington Cemetery Association, 1934
*Eugene Phelps Edwards Trust, established November 1935 and detailing the distribution of funds between Elizabeth, Jane and Fred Paffard, Jr.
*copy, Last Will and Testament of Eugene Phelps Edwards, including the distribution to the bulk of his personal property, including the land and buildings at Stone Acres, to Frederic C. and Helen Paffard, and their children. January 1937
*legal agreement between Frederic C. Paffard and the Town of Stonington re. the property assessment and taxes owed for the Stone Acres property and other personal and real estate inherited from Eugene Phelps Edwards, 1940.
*handwritten "working agreement" between Chip and Freddy Anderson and Fred Paffard, Jr. regarding Elizabeth Anderson portion of the Stone Acres estate, 1984Collection
Stone Acres Collection