Land: Atchison's Woodyard Survey: Charles County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Ken Wedding, ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Atchison's Woodyard Survey [John Clubb's plantation, Hopewell is described as "near a tract of land called Atchison's Woodyard." I have inserted dashes (--) for letters I cannot be sure of. My guesses as to letters are contained in brackets and followed by question marks. Otherwise, words are spelled and capitalized exactly as in the original. The beginning point from which this survey (and the surveys for Hopewell, Conveniency, and Maiden's Pleasure) begins is an oak tree variously described as Spanish oak, a banded oak, a banded white oak, a grey oak, and a gum tree. In 1985, LeRoy Curtis Wedding and Eleanore Rohl Wedding, my parents spent three days tracing every land transaction for Maiden's Pleasure and Hopewell from the earliest survey to 1985. Based on that research, a tree still used as a survey point, stood near that site. The tree stood, in 1985, just off Chestnut Drive, a street intersecting Berry Road about 1 mile northwest of the Berry Road intersection with Highway 301 (Blue Starr Memorial Highway). Ken Wedding, 925 Ivanhoe Drive, Northfield, MN 55057, e-mail: Ken@SideTrack.org ] Patents, vol. E-3, folio 57-8, 04 April, 1714 By virtue of a warrant granted unto William Fitz Redmond of --------- for one thousand acres of land the second day December last on hundred acres thereof was the 8th of March last assigned by Capt John Bradford the attorney in that --- - aforesaid Fitz Redmond unto William Atchison of Charles County the-- and therefore ----that I've surveyed and laid out for the said Atchison all that trackt or parcel of land lying in Charles County called Atchisons Woodyard beginning at a banded grey oak standing on the North Side of Piney Creek of Mattawomen then North 40° East 45 perches then south 8° easterly 60 perches then South 41° westerly 40 perches then South 30° westerly 40 perches then South 70° westerly fourteen perches thence in a straight line to the beginning containing and now out for 100 acres of land more or less to be held of [Pargnoak?] Manor. [Below that is a sketch map with the note] "By a scale of 20 Perches to Inch"