Excerpt from A Guide of Hand-Book for Mount Hope Cemetery: With Photo-Engravings and Diagram On the 24th of August, 1836, in the Common Council, Alderman David Scoville offered a resolution that a committee be appointed to in quire into the expediency of purchasing Silas Andrus' lot on the east side of the river or any other lot 111 the city, for a burial ground and report at a future meeting of the Board. The first purchase was made of Silas Andrus, of Hartford, Conn. Jan. 2, 1837, being 5318 - 'l00 acres' for which the then large sum of $100 an acre was paid. The earliest sale on record of this land as a distinct tract was April,3o, 1817, when Elijah Northrup sold it to Eli Stillson, grand father of the present Superintendent of Mount Hope, for $367. Mr. Stillson sold it to John Mastick, July 12, 1821, for $262, who sold it to Silas Andrus, January 1, 1822, for $287, and Mr. Andrus fifteen years later sold it to the City of Rochester for Being just prior to the panic of 1837, values were greatly inflated. In cluding this land the different purchases to the present day have been as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.