Benjamin McDonald - 1788 Land Survey - Frederick County, Virginia *********************************************************** Submitted by: Clara Lawver Date: January 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Please note, transcription is wide because line breaks are same as original document. Images of the original document available at the archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/land/494orig.jpg http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/land/495orig.jpg 494 318 3/4 Acres [[DRAWING HERE, SEE IMAGE]] 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 495 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