Benjamin McDonald - Land Survey - 1788
Submitted by Clara Lawver
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318 3/4 Acres Frederick County
Recd. 29 Sptemr. 88
Grant issued 1st
September 1789
Frederick County Set by Virtue of a Warrant granted from the
Exam.d Office of the late proprietor of the Northern Neck No. 175., to John
Mason of Frederick County aforesaid for 400 acres of Waste and
ungranted land adjoining lands of Joseph Lupton and _____ Reece near
Isaacs creek and on Timber ridge in the said county, which warrant is
dated the 18th day of October 1774.and Assigned by said Mason to Benjamin
, McDonald of this said county as appears by the Assignment hereto
Annexed. I have made a Survey of Land located in said Warrant
For Benjamin McDonald Assee" of said Mason as Aforesaid which
is bounded as follows. that is to say. Beginning at a white oak a
corner to the Lands of John Rout and running thence with him
N39 1/2*.W 51 poles to a white oak and a pine corner to Robert
McKees Land thence running with McKees line S 38d W 377 poles
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Poles to two white oaks on the West side of a hill his and John Nutts
corner formerly Luptons thence with Nutt S 51d W 397 poles to two spanish
oaks and a white oak at the foot of a hill on the East side of Isaacs creek
thence S 52* W 42 poles to two Pines William Houses corner on the point
of a hill thence running with House S 67 E 184 poles to a white oak corner
to Thomas Reece Junr. Thence with his line N 16* E 71 poles to a chesnut
oak on the West side of a hill corner to said Reece and in or near the line of
John Rout thence with Rout N 81d 3/4 W 25 poles to a young marked
Chesnut corner to said John Rout thence continuing with Rout N 44 1/2 d
E 289 poles to three chesnut oaks corner to the said John Rout and other
Lands of the said McDonald thence with McDonald N 42 3/4 d E 153
poles to two chesnut oaks his and Routs corner thence with Rout N 39 1/2 d.
W 8 poles to two maples and a white oak in a Valley near a drain thence
N 34d. E 252 poles to the beginning which Survey Contains 318 3/4 Acres
Surveyed the 12th day of April 1788 By
John Cordell D S F C
Benjamin Ashby S F C
