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From: Sally Holcombe <>
Subject: Re: TAFT Farm
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:32:13 -0700
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I'm sticking my BOLSTER nose in, again. I have copies of two
documents which might help people narrow down the search for the Taft
farm location.
1. a Mendon proprietor's record, p. 714 --
June 8, 1733, Laid out land for Isaac Bolster, five acres, viz:
three acres
eighth division, two acres ninth division, laid out joining to his
other land
2. a probate court record dated 13 May 1754, Uxbridge --
And we have devided and set of ye land as follows to Richard
Bolster eldest son of
ye deseased [the above-mentioned Isaac Bolster] about thirty eight
acres of land
laying on ye south side of ye said deseaseds Home farm and is bound
southerly at
ye south line of said Farme Runs and Easterly by Gideon Tafts land
about fifty five
rods until it coms to a jog in said Tafts land then to turn and run
westerly to a heap
of stones laying on ye west side of the road then to run southerly
by said road seventeen
rods and six feet to a stake & heap of stones by ye side of said
road then turning and
runing --- westerly twelve rods to a stak on ye south side of ye
Barn then to run something
Norwesterly through said Barn twelve rods and a half to a stake and
heap of stones then
to run westerly to a heap of stons at ye line of land belonging to
ye Heirs of mr John Cook
deseased then runing southerly fifty rods to ye southwest Corner of
said farm

If Gideon TAFT is the owner of the "Taft Farm" you are trying to
locate, then it was in that part of Mendon which was later
incorporated into Uxbridge, in the eighth or ninth original land
division, near or adjacent to John COOK and Isaac BOLSTER's properties.

Hope this gives a few clues.

Best Regards,
Sally (Bolster) Holcombe




On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Lisa Lepore wrote:

> Hi Jon -
>
> Where was the Taft Farm?
>
> I found a cemetery on the topozone map right where you said
> in your message. It is just marked *cem*, with no name.
>
> The map shows a few cemeteries in this area. One on Chocolog
> just after Chestnut and before Johnson Road, then another on Chocolog
> just past the intersection of Johnson Rd. Another one
> on Glendale, between Aldrich & the intersection of Elmdale.
>
> Glendale turns into Ironmine Road where there are 3 more
> cemeteries marked in the section between Ironstone Road and
> Mount Pleasant Road.
>
> All of these cemeteries are just marked *cem* so they must be
> small family type lots. There are other cemeteries with names
> in this map series, so they must be the larger ones.
>
> In RI there is a project that's been going on since the 1970's to
> locate & document all the historical cemeteries in the State.
> Is there anything like this project in MA, or is it all done on an
> individual city/town basis.
>
> Lisa
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:37 AM
> Subject: [MAWORCES] Taft Cemetery Uxbridge
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am operating strictly from memory here, however, I believe there
> is a Taft
>> Family burial ground on Johnson Road a short distance from the
> intersection
>> of Johnson and Chocolog Road and near the old Taft Family Farm. I
> can
>> remember playing there when I was a kid. We use to "blueberry" all
> over those
>> woods (swamps). I also think that that was at one point called Taft
> Road from
>> the Chocolog Road end and Johnson Road from the Aldrich Hill end.
> Cedar Swamp
>> Pond and Chocolog Pond are both behind the cemetery and through the
> swamp.
>> In the early 1920s my great grandfather bought the Taft Farm.
>>
>> Jon Normandin
>> Burlington, Vermont
>>
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