Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, MassachusettsEddy, Mary Baker
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Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
Eddy, Mary Baker
Christian Science
To Have and to Hold the above granted premises with all the
privileges and appurtenances thereon belonging to said grantees and
their successors in office to the uses and trusts above described
forever.
And the said grantor for herself and her heirs, executors and
administrators covenants with the said grantees and their successors
in office that she is lawfully seized in fee simple of the aforesaid
premises, that they are free from all incumbrances not herein
mentioned or referred to, that she has good right to sell and convey
the same to the said grantees and their successors in office
as aforesaid, and that she will and her heirs, executors, and
administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said
grantees and their successors in office forever against the lawful
claims and demands of all persons.
In witness whereof I the said Mary Baker G. Eddy have hereto set
my hand and seal this 1st day of September, 1892.
MARY BAKER G. EDDY.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of
LAURA E. SARGENT.
R. E. WALKER.
September 1st, 1892.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MERRIMACK.
Then personally appeared the above named Mary Baker G. Eddy and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be her free act and deed,
Before me
R. E. WALKER.
_Notary Public._
September 2, 1892.
SUFFOLK REGISTRY OF DEEDS, Lib. 2081, Fol. 257.
Deed Conveying Land for Church Purposes
METCALE _to_ KNAPP _et al. Trs._
Libro 2886, Fol. 521.
KNOW ALL MEN,
That I, Albert Metcalf, the grantor in a certain deed given to Ira O.
Knapp and others dated October 23, 1896, and recorded with Suffolk
Deeds, Book 2591, page 398, do hereby declare that the land conveyed
by said deed was conveyed to the grantees therein, as they are the
Christian Science Board of Directors, upon the trusts, but not
subject to the conditions mentioned in the deed creating said Board
given by Mary Baker G. Eddy to Ira O. Knapp and others, dated
September 1st, 1892, and recorded with Suffolk Deeds, Book 2081, page
257. In addition to the trusts contained in said deed of September 1,
1892, from Mary Baker G. Eddy, this property is conveyed on the
further trusts that no new Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted, nor
any Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled by the grantees unless
the written consent of said Mary Baker G. Eddy, the author of the
textbook "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES," be given
therefor, or unless at the written request of Mrs. Eddy the Executive
Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, (formally called
the "First Members,") by a two-thirds vote of all their number,
decide so to do. And that the same inscription which is on the
outside of the present church edifice shall be placed on any new
church erected on said lot. And in consideration of one dollar to me
paid by said Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph Armstrong and
Stephen A. Chase, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I do
hereby confirm the deed as above mentioned, and do grant and release
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