April 29: Joseph Perry and the Schermerhorns


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April 29

Green-Wood’s comptroller, Joseph Perry, reports on this date in 1842 that an agreement has been reached with the Schermerhorns to purchase 85 acres from them at $350 per acre. The Schermerhorns soon built their mausoleums on the land that they had owned and sold to Green-Wood.

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