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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: Re: [OHADAMS] Federal land patent - VA Military District
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:49:20 -0400

Yes,and no.
My reprint atlases of Clermont,and Brown Co show military surveys.
I don't think my Adams Co does, but [1] maybe you adjoin Brown Co,,or [2]
from the names on the Adams Co atlas,or [3] what ever method modern
surveyors use.
Also,remember there are both Ohio and Scioto Brush creeks in Adams.
You refer to Ohio Brush

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 10:10:07 EDT writes:
> In 1801 my ancestor received a federal land patent by a military
> warrant
> located in the Virgina Military District "on the waters of the
> Cherry fork of
> Brush Creek", which I find to be in Adams County. The patent
> contains a
> metes and bounds description of 200 acres and reference to two other
> abutting
> numbered surveys. This area was not surveyed by the rectangular
> system,
> hence, no section, township and range are in the land description.
> Are
> there any plats or other means by which I could precisely establish
> the
> location of this land? Thanks, anybody. Bill Morrison
>
>
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