John Foley Survey

Hampshire County, VA 250 acres

11 Dec 1804

Transcribed by Janie Martin Whitty ç 2001, all rights reserved

 

Rec’d 20 Dec 1803

G-iss(?) 11 Dec 1804

 

 

March 28, .1803.  By Virtue of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 2615 dated Dec. 29th, 1798 entered March 25th 1783 I have Surveyed for John Foley a tract of land in Hampshire County on Long Ridge and waters of Mill Creek bounded as follows Viz/ <1>Beginning at a white oak on the top of the long ridge on the S E side of the Fort Pleasant Road corner to Henry Purget:  thence with his line S65E 52 ps to <2> a white oak and a red oak on a hill side corner to said Purget thence S24 (degrees) W92 ps to <3> a pine and two white oaks;  thence S 64  E 66 ps to <4>two white oaks and a gum on a hill side thence S 25  E74 ps to <5>two white oaks and a gum on the bank of a small branch; thence N 78  E 26 ps to <6>a small white oak in Isaac Vanmeter’s line thence with it S 30  W6 ps to <7>a hickory by a branch corner to said Vanmeter continued with his lines S 76 (degrees) E 10 p:  to <8>a white oak and two gums thence S60(degrees) E28 ps to <9>a white oak in said Vanmeter’s line thence leaving it S 12 W 26 ps to <10>two white oaks in Henry Heinzman’s line thence with it N 61  W 250 to <11>two white oaks on a hill side near the great road corner to said Heinzman and John Foley thence with Foley’s lines crossing the road N 24  E 12 ps to <12>two white oaks thence S 50(degrees) W 156 ps to <13>a white oak and walnut at the foot of a hill 4 p:  West of a ridge lick in said Foley’s line thence leaving it N 10 E 60 ps to <14>two white oaks thence N 26  E 66 ps to a <15>white oak by a branch the course continued in all 96 ps to two white oaks by a branch of Mill Creek, thence N 77(degrees) E 40 p. to <16>a parcel of red oak saplings by a drain, thence S 36 E 165 ps. to the Beginning.  Containing two hundred and fifty acres.

 

Scale 80 ps to an inch

 

Mag Va 15 W

Listed as CC (or LL) S:  William Foley and Joseph Marsh

John Mitchel, gen. ass. to Jno. Mitchel, H.C.S.