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1. Deed - October 17, 1865 John S. Davis, Betsy Davis, Eleazer P. Davis, Lewis P. Gleason and his wife Susan D. Gleason, Samuel Davis and Martha M. Davis, in consideration of $900 paid to them by Benjamin J. Davis, gave to Benjamin Davis a parcel of land with buildings in the westerly part of Bedford of about 100 acres more or less. They also gave one other lot of land in Birch Meadow in the westerly part of Bedford containing 20 acres more or less. Recorded Octoer 21, 1865. Book 956, Page 439. Transcribed by Edward and Evelyn Stickney 10/94.

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2. Photograph - Built 1828-30 by Joshua Page a two-family house. Gleason shoe shop in rear. Photo ca. 1885. Converted in 1923 to one-family parsonage.

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3. Photograph - Lewis Putnam Gleason (born Feb. 28, 1800 in Pomfret, CT; died Jan. 22, 1885) married Sophronia Butler on Mar. 3, 1826; she died Jan. 6, 1827 and he married Lucy Butler on Oct. 2, 1827; she died Oct. 30, 1846 and he married Susan Davis on Oct. 20, 1847. Lewis, a shoemaker, left from home on foot carrying his possessions; he intended to walk to maine to visit his grandmother but found employment in Bedford with Benjamin Simonds, a shoe manufacturer, where he remained until he died. From A.E. Brown's History of Bedford, Memorial Edition.

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