From the July 4, 1961 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
In the careful and beautiful penmanship of the day, in a memo dated Nov. 15, 1859, and presumably related to Samuel Osborn Jr. of Edgartown, a leading citizen of his day and the whaling agent and owner, one of whose boons to his town was the building of the great house which is now the Charlotte Inn, was recorded this segment of Island history. The data was found among Mr. Osborn’s papers by his granddaughter, Mrs. William T. Reynolds.