number one through five were reserved to Brickell himself and were in total length "55 1/2 feet, more or less."

There are several problems with this plat. First of all, the 255 feet described would not reach from the corner of the old graveyard to High street, which was a distance of 486 feet; secondly, the twelve, fifteen-foot lots plus 55 feet, more or less, would total about 235 feet, not 255; third, the reservation in the deed to Goodale mentions a strip only 192 feet in length. Finally, the plat does not make clear just where in the strip the series of lots began or ended. The questions raised by these descriptions are cleared up only by the record of condemnation of the property by the city for the widening of Spruce street in 1889. In that record it becomes apparent that the Brickell reserve was in fact only forty feet long (not 55 feet as platted and not 75 feet as implied by the total length of 255 feet) and that the plat ran eastward a total of 220 feet from the northwest corner of the old graveyard.²⁰ This is the plat shown on the accompanying map.

One hint as to the reason for the discrepencies in the length of the Brickell addition is given in the minutes of the City Council: on December 9, 1844, it was moved that "Mr. McCoy be appointed a committee to move the west fence of the North Graveyard to the line which Dr. L. Goodale claims to be original Line"... The motion was defeated nine to one.²¹ This indicates that the western fence of the graveyard may have been too far west when Mr. Graham made the survey of the Brickell addition, with the result that the western end of the addition was lost when the line was corrected at some later date.

Including the Brickell addition and assuming that the fence extended fifteen feet onto Lincoln Goodale's land on the west, the graveyard fence enclosed a total of 8.87 acres, more or less.

Twelve of the Brickell lots were sold in 1845, before the tract was surveyed, for ten dollars each. Unlike the city's lots in the Doherty tract, which were sold only "for a burying place," the Brickell lots were sold outright. Deeds were written for the lots, some of which were taken to the courthouse by the purchasers to be recorded; the names of the purchasers of the other lots were recorded when the plat was made. The purchasers and the dates on which deeds were written, if recorded, were:

Lot 6 Emanuel & David Doherty
7 Frederick Constans
8 Ebenezer McDaniel, October 21, 1845
9 Nicholas Maurer, October 10, 1845
10 Effa Barth, October 10, 1845
11 Jacob Mourer, October 10, 1845
12 John Huffman
13 Frederick Bennignus, October 10, 1845

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