HENRY T. HACKETT
ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW
226 UNION STREET
POUGHKEEPSIE,NEWYORK
Nov. 27th,1935.
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Warm Springs, Georgia.
Dear Franklin:
Upon plotting out Wyatt
Jones' land it appears that Schaffer, the owner of the main
part of the farm tothe east,owns a wood lot of about six
acres between parcels 1,2 and owned by JOnes.
I told Jones that you would
probably would not care to buy his land with someone else's
wood lot in the center of it.
Schaffer has been in to see
me and at first was not inclined to sell the wood lot separate
from the farm as he claimed it was the only wood land on his
farm,but finally said that if you made
him an offer he might seIl it.
Jones owns parcels 1, 2 and 3
subject to a $600. mortgage and the present unpaid taxes.
There is some question about
the correct boundarof the parcel 3. In l921 Fred Adams, the
predecessor in title to Schaffer, sold a lot 312 feet in
width on the north and south lines and 912 feet in
length on the east an west lines to Leetar Griffin Gossoo
sold this parcel to Jones and his wife by a description in
metes and bounds as plotted out on the enclosed map, which
appears to contain more land that he actually bought from
Adams.
I think a quit-claim deed from
Schaffer, and a release from the Federal Land Bank would
correct this matter.
If you should decide to purchase
the JOnes property and the Schaffer wood lot, I would suggest
that the offer forthe wood lot include the fee to the thirty
foot right of my owned by Schafferextending westerly
from Cream Street along the south line of his farm to
Jones' property.
With kindest regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
[Henry T. Hackett]