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    "title": "A plan of South Boston and the owners lands, and the roads, taken from the original plan now in keeping, being the same plan that one was drawn from, for the Town of Boston in March 1805",
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        "\"I Mather Withington do further state and declare that the above plan is taken from the same plan and is as respects all lines boundaries, divisions, streets, and in every other respect similar to the plan drawn by me and dated the 4th of October 1804, to which reference is made in the proceedings of the Selectmen of the Town of Boston, and dated 27 February 1805. Boston, January 3rd 1827. (signed) Mather Withington.\""
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