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Greathouse of Yohogania County, WV

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1783, Dec 11 - Survey: Harmon Greathouse, Harmons Creek, 800 acres

Excerpt from 1785 - Land Grant: Harmon Greathouse, Harmons Creek, 800 acres:

there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said Harmon Greathouse a certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing Eight hundred acres by Survey bearing date the eleventh day of December one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty three [11 Dec 1783] Lying and being in the County of Yohogania and is Bounded as followeth. To wit:

Beginning at a Large Double Sycamore on the north side of Harmons Creek being a Corner to Thomas Edgington

1) thence North thirty five degrees West one hundred poles to a Black oak on the hill

N 35 degrees W 100 poles

2) thence with Edgingtons Line North fifty one Degrees West one hundred and Seventy two poles to a Black oak Corner to Thomas Edgington,

N 51 degrees W 172 poles

3) thence East fifty seven poles to a Black oak on the River Hill

E 57 poles

4) thence North Twenty one degrees East ninety seven poles to a white oak

N 21 degrees E 97 poles

5) thence North thirty nine degrees East one hundred and Twenty eight poles to a white oak

N 39 degrees E 128 poles

6) thence south seventy eight degrees East thirty four poles to a white oak in Alexander Wills Line

S 78 degrees E 34 poles

7) thence with his Line South Twelve Degrees West six poles to his Corner Black oak

S 12 degrees W 6 poles

8) thence with Wills Line crossing the cove of a Pond South Eighty two degrees East one hundred and ninety poles to a Black oak,

S 82 degrees E 190 poles

9) thence south Twenty degree East sixty poles to a Dogwood and red oak on the north side of Harmons Creek

S 20 degrees E 60 poles

10) South fifty three degrees East one hundred and seven poles to a Black Oak

S 53 degrees E 107 poles

11) south Eighty two degrees East one hundred and Thirty two poles to a Large ash

S 82 degrees E 132 poles

12) South fifty five degrees East Twenty eight poles to Slash oak

S 55 degrees E 28 poles

13) south forty degrees East forty poles to a Sycamore

S 40 degrees E 40 poles

14) south twenty degrees East Sixty six poles to a Sugar tree Corner to Gabriel Greathouse

S 26 degrees E 66 poles

15) South Seventy eight degrees West thirty four poles to a maple on the South Bank of Harmons Creek just above an old Mill race

S 78 degrees W 34 poles

16) thence North forty degrees West Sixty six poles to a swamp oak at the foot of the hill

N 40 degrees W 66 poles

17) thence North Eighty five degrees West one hundred and forty poles

N 85 degrees W 140 poles

18) thence right Line South fifty five degrees West three hundred and five poles to the Beginning With is appurtenances.

S 55 [63] degrees W 305 [336] poles

Footnotes:

1) While this survey was derived from 1785 - Land Grant: Harmon Greathouse, Harmons Creek, 800 acres, a copy of the original survey does not appear to be among those, which were transferred to the survey books of Ohio County, WV, when Yohogania County was eliminated in Oct 1785. A copy of the original survey, if it still exists, possibly could be found in the "First Survey Book of Yohogania county, VA ... The Survey Book referred to is still in existence in a good state of preservation, and in possession of Boyd Crumrine, Esq., of Washington, Pa.", which was still in existence in 1892.

2) The metes and bounds related in the land grant were converted to short hand notation, to aid with entry at Deed Platter.

3) Lines of bearing and number of poles in brackets [ ] were adjusted to connect the ending line to the beginning line of the survey.

Sources:

Greathouse Point, Greathouse Archives, USA - Yohogania County, WV, 1785 - Land Grant: Harmon Greathouse, Harmons Creek, 800 acres.

James Moore Swank, History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages: And Particularly in the United States from Colonial Time to 1891. Also a Short History of Early Coal Mining in the United States ... Library of American civilization. Edition 2, reprint. (Philadelphia: The American Iron and Steel Association, 1892), Page 213, First Survey Book of Yohogania County, VA. View @ Google Books

Genealogy Tools, Deed Platter. 1785, Mar 8 - Plat: Harmon Greathouse, 800 acres on Harmons Creek. Plat Your Deeds @ Deed Platter

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