Series III. Legal Documentation consists of two items, both collected and compiled by John Patch. The first item is a property deed wherein five acres of land previously under the purview of Roswell Saltonstall of Saltonstall Farms in Ipswich were deeded to an individual named John Patch in 1732/3. While it is presumably pertains to an ancestor of John Patch (1807-1887), it is unclear who that may be. Also included in Series III is a hand-written, hand-bound account of two Supreme Judicial Court cases that took place in beginning in 1860, titled "Charles Kimball et al Executors vs. John Patch, Appellant." The opening statement, given by L.B. Ives, Jr., on May 7, 1860, outlined the issues at hand: John Patch Sr. (1770-1858), left behind an 1853 will that made clear his disappointment in the "pecuniary failures" of his son and bequeathing his estate accordingly. John Patch's (1807-1887) appeals addressed the value of his father's estate and questioned his father's willed intention. The compilation is lengthy and detailed, and includes substantive local and family history.