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 Survey for land containing a church, possibly the meeting house, near Cripple Creek road

  • » Date: 1851-03-01
  • » Subject: Survey for land containing a church, possibly the meeting house, near Cripple Creek road
  • » Written By: William B. Foster
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Alice Hix
  • » File # 1042

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The annexed plat represents 136 perches of land surveyed and laid off for James T. Gleaves (including the church situated near the Cripple Creek road on Said Gleaves’ premises) and bounded as follows, Niz:

Beginning at two white oaks and running thence S. 13 ½  E. 8 ¾ poles to a white oak thence N. 63 E. 12 ½ poles to a white oak thence N 31 ¾ W. 4 ½ poles to a white oak east of Said Church thence N. 46 ¾ E. 21 poles to a stake thence N. 32 ¼ W. 2 poles to a stake by a dog-wood below a Spring thence S. 49 W 20 poles to a white oak thence S. 68 ½ W. 10 ¾ poles to the beginning.

March 1st 1851
Wm B. Foster S.W.C.


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Plat of the
Church land
as laid off

Transcriber Notes

A pole in surveying is an unit of length with 1 pole equal to 16.5 feet

A perch as a unit of area is equal to 0.00625 acres. There are 160 perches to an acre.
Thus this survey contains 85% of an acre.

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