Deed to Warren's tomb-lot at St. Paul's Church, Boston, with signed manuscript addition transferring its ownership

Warren, John Collins (1778-1856). Document signed, dated November 19, 1827, written on the verso of the printed deed to Warren's tomb-lot in St. Paul's Church, Boston, dated February 5, 1823. 1-1/2pp., plus integral blank. 250 x 203 mm. Creased where previously folded, folds worn and with some paper tape repairs, light browning & marginal fraying. Good to very good overall. Docketed on verso of blank leaf.

Recording the sale of Warren's tomb-lot at St. Paul's to Edward Luckerman of Boston, for the sum of $527--$227 more than Warren had paid when he purchased the lot four and a half years earlier. Warren, the eminent Bostonian surgeon, was a co-founder of Massachusetts General Hospital, where on October 16, 1846 he became the first surgeon to perform an operation on an etherized patient. He also introduced the operation of staphylorraphy (cleft palate repair) in America; see Garrison-Morton 5742.