Land: Patent and Survey for Hopewell (1717): 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 *********************************************************************** John Clubb, "Hopewell" 1717 Survey [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 Atchisons Woodyard, 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 (marked with a big yellow ribbon), stood near the site of the tree used since 1714. 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 ] Charles County Patented Certificate of Survey No. 550 Outside label: Chas Coty John Clubb [Cort?] 200a Hopewell [Alrno?] Certificate [auording?] to ------- [&?] Number of [acres?] [P?] Benn Low- [Exam?] P - Charles County Patented Certificate of Survey #550 Entred in Lib [FF?] No 77 for 250 Inside of document:: [Oct?] 12th 1717 By Virtue of a Warrt out of his Lordships land Office for Two hundd Acres of Land Bearing Date of 27th Day of September 1717, Granted unto John Clubb of Charles County, [Thoss?] and to Certify that I have Laid out for Said Jn Clubb all that [pce?] or Tract of Land Call'd Hopewell Lying in Charles County aforsaid, Beginning at a [Banded?] Spanish Oak Standing near a Small Branch that falls into a Branch Called piney=branch and near a Tract of Land Call'd Atchison's Woodyard, Running thence West South West One hundd perches, thence South South East One hundred and seventy five [pts?] thence South East and by East One hundred and eighty two [pts?] thence East Northeast Eighty [pts?] thence North West Two hundd & Eighteen [pts?] thence thence to the first tree Containing and Laid out for Two hundred acres more or Less to be held of Zachia Mannor. Robert Hanson, [Dept--?] Charles County Beneath the above statement was a map "Plotted by a Scale of 100 perches in an inch" Patent for Hopewell John Clubb 1717 By vertue of a warrant out of his Lordships land office for two hundred acres of land bearing date the 27th day of September 1717 granted unto John Clubb of Charles County. These are to certifie that I have laid out for the sd John Clubb all that piece or tract of land called Hopewell lying in Charles County aforesd. Beginning at a banded spanish oak standing near a tract of land called Atchisons Woodyard running thence West Southwest one hundred perches thence South South East one hundred seventy five perches thence South East by East one hundred eighty two perches thence East North East eighty perches thence North West two hundred and eighteen perches thence to the first tree containing and now laid out for two hundred acres more or less to be held of Zachia Mannor. Robt Hanson Depy Charles County I then issued Patent unto the above said John Clubb for the above land pursuant to the foregoing cash rent pam---