Talk:Naushon Island
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I removed this "excerpt" becuase there is no indication where it is from.
See below for statement (excerpt):
"(3) Naushon Island is privately owned and access is for residents only. Tarpaulin Cove’s clear cool water, beaches, and hiking paths are a ideal overnight stop for a day sail or a power boat cruise. Before hiking on the island, you need the permission of the J.M. Forbes Naushon Island Trust and the site of the Lighthouse is closed to public. Since the island is a private nature preserve, public access is restricted to the beach of Tarpaulin Cove for 50 yards inland from the water."
I have no objection to including it, but it seems silly to say it is an excerpt without giving the source. Bkonrad | Talk 14:25, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The anonymous person who created this article along with the article about Brice Lalonde and who made dozens of edits on the Kerry and Forbes family articles under various IP addresses is obviously not familiar with the wikipedia policy of information rather than propaganda. Get-back-world-respect 17:03, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I removed the following because it appears to simply be raw data from some unspecified source coupled with some speculations. It does not seem encyclopedic as is. It *might* be possible to rework it into a more appropriate form, but as is, it is simply confusing. older≠wiser 17:39, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
FORBES FAMILY NAUSHON TRUSTS The Naushon Trust, believed to be the original Forbes trust but renamed, was formed during the depression for tax and estate planning purposes on 05/02/1932. The trustee registered with Massachusetts is tax and estate lawyer James D. Holt, 24 Federal St., Boston, MA. A newer nonprofit trust called the Naushon Trust, Inc., was formed on 2/25/2002, C/O J.M. FORBES, 3 POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON, MA 02109, with the following trustees:
PRESIDENT, L. PERRY RUSSELL, 230 CANTON AVENUE, MILTON, MA 02186 USA TREASURER, CHARLES A. HOWLAND, 6 WOODCOCK RUN, TEMPLE, NH 03084 USA CLERK, WILLIAM N. BANCROFT, 44 FOUNDRY STREET, MEDFIELD, MA 02052 USA DIRECTOR, JAMES D. COLT, 18 LARCH ROW, WENHAM, MA 01984 USA
The Naushon Trust, Inc., is a 'voluntary association' organized under Chapter 180 of Mass. nonprofit statutes, and a nonprofit formed, according to its 2002 articles of incorporation, "to maintain and preserve the Corporation's properties for recreational, agricultural, horticultural, and other uses by members of the Corporation." Some family members claim to be 'shareholders' of the Island, through inherited shares in the non-profit or family trusts, such as Prof. David Gregg of Brown, who wrote to a boater "In order to preserve the owners' privacy and maintain the islands in the face of campers, litterers, thieves, arsonists, hunters, and others, they are all strictly no trespassing." A Forbes family member, Sen. John Kerry vacations at the island, but says that a family non-profit owns the island and receives tax abatements for property taxes paid to the county and state. At present, it cannot be discerned if the non-profit owns the island or the family trust, if Forbes family members are exclusively members of the nonprofit corporation, and how the family can vacation on the island and restrict the public if no longer directly owned by family members. Other family trusts and entities set up by the family are, the for-profit corporation on 12/7/1994, MONOHANSETT, INC., J. M. FORBES & Company, Inc., 3 POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON, MA., with the same directors, also Mr. and Holly F. Leon, RAMCAT, INC., J. M. Forbes and Company, with similar directors, incl. Roger Gregg, Serapis Energy, Inc., 424 W. Broadway, Boston, MA, Sentinel Tree Telephone Company, Inc., 79 Milk St., same directors with Malcom Davidson, a foreign Delaware Corporation, and Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association, a non profit, c/o J. M. Forbes & Co., same directors and Mary E. Bancroft, Daniel Emerson. It is unknown what estate or income tax benefits accrue to the non-profit entities or their donors or members.
