Whereas Oliver Mead of the Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut has conveyed by deed dated Aug. 1885 to the Belle Haven Land Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut and located at said Town of Greenwich a certain tract of land containing one quarter of an acre more or less for the purpose of widening a certain passover-way [passenger-way?] <insert: laid out by Sand Co.> known as Otter Creek Drive <insert: on the maps of Sand Co.> + Mayo Ave and leading from land of said Oliver Mead adjoining the land so conveyed <insert: in said Belle Haven Land Company> in the deed herein above mentioned, so the highway known as Field Point Road----

Now therefore in considertion of the premise [promise?] and of the sum of one dollar received by said Belle Haven Land Company does for itself, its successors and assigns Covenant, promise and affirm that it shall and will allow said Oliver Mead and his <insert> heirs [difficult to read] Administration and assigns the free + unobstructed use in common with said Belle Haven Land Company and others of the above mentioned private [passage?] ways to pass <insert: + repass at all times> to and from <unreadable: the?> adjoining land above mentioned of Oliver Mead adjoining said land conveyed by him as aforesaid--

From a side pocket in the 1885 diary of Oliver D. Mead, Greenwich, Connecticut. He was a resident of Belle Haven and the President of the Greenwich Savings Bank.