Name/Title
Trinity Church Burial Plot DeedEntry/Object ID
JJA.1938.572aDescription
This is the deed to burial plots for Harriet Bachman Audubon and others in the family vault at Trinity Church Cemetery in the easterly portion of the cemetery. Transcription of the deed reads as follows: "The Rector etc. of Trinity Church, in the City of New York to Harriette Bachman Audubon & others Grandchildren of John J. Audubon
Deed Lot No. A. A. - in Easterly division of Cemetery - Know all Men by these Presents, That We, The Rector, Church-Wardens, and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, in the City of New York, in consideration of Lot number 1069 (one thousand and sixty nine) in the westerly division of Trinity Church Cemetery to us surrendered by Harriette Bachman Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, John James Audubon, William Bakewell Audubon, Florence Audubon, Lucy Audubon Williams, Mary Eliza Audubon, Victor Gifford Audubon, Delia Talman Audubon Tyler, Lucy Bakewell Audubon and Annie Gordon Audubon, Grand children of John James Audubon, deceased, parties hereto of the second part the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, and by these presents do grant unto the said parties of the second part of their heirs, the right and privilege of occupying and using for a family burial-place, all that certain piece, parcel, or plat of ground, lying and being in our parish burialplace or cemetery, called TRINITY CHURCH CEMETERY, situate in the Twelth Ward of the City of New York, the said piece, parcel, or plat of ground being in that section of the said cemetery which lies on the Easterly side of the Eleventh Avenue, and being the plot designated or distinguished on the map or chart of the cemetery grounds, made by A. D. and N. Ewen, and filed in our Vestry Office as lot number A.A. (Double A) Bounded and described as follows. Beginning at a point about sixty five feet south of the centre of the gateway on 155 th. street, running thence south westwardly fifteen feet one inch, thence North westwardly fifteen feet eleven inches, thence Northeastwardly four feet eight and one half inches, thence North westwardly seven feet, thence Northeastwardly five feet eight inches, thence south, eastwardly seven feet, thence Northeastwardly four feet eight and one half inches and thence south eastwardly fifteen feet eleven inches to the place of beginning. Together with the right to construct and make within the same, a vault for the interment of the dead, with such depth of excavation as we, or our Vestry, may, from time to time, prescribe or limit. To have and to hold the above described and granted premises unto the said parties of the second part and their heirs for ever, together with the right and privilege of transferring and alienating the same as fully as the holders and proprietors of lots or plats in rural cemeteries, granted by corporations in pursuance of the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York,, entitled, "An Act authorizing the Incorporation of Rural Cemetery Associations, " passed April 27 th. 1847, are authorized to sell and convey the same, subject to the provisos and exceptions contained in the eleventh section of the said act, a copy of which section is hereunto annexed; and also subjects to such rules and regulations concerning the depth of such excavation, and the perquisities and allowances of our sextons, keepers, and other servants to be employed in or about such interments; and also to all such standing or other rules or regulations in relation to the government, well ordering, and preservation of the said cemetery, and of the grounds, paths, trees, shrubbery, fences, railings, graves, tombs, and ornamental and other structures within the same, and for the prevention and removal of offensive or unsuitable structures or inscriptions, and in relation to the removal and lopping of trees and shrubbery which, or the branches or roots of which, may be or become detrimental to the adjacent lots, avenues, or paths, or dangerous or inconvenient to passengers, as we, or our Vestry shall, from time to time, make, prescribe, or limit, and reserving to ourselves and our successors, the right at all times to plant ornamental trees and shrubbery on the said plat of ground, and at pleasure to remove the same; but so always as not to interfere with the use of the said ground for the purpose aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have to these Presents caused our corporate seal to be affixed, this tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. By order of the Corporation of Trinity Church, in the City of New York. (signed) S. P. Nash - Clerk"Collection
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