Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, [ca. 1 December 1812]

Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest

[ca. 1 Dec. 1812]

	Mary Bradley Exec of Absalom Bradley		1808. Jan. 23.
	to		114½ as
	Benjamin Johnson
	in Bedford & Campbell
	on both sides of Tomahawk cr.
	begg at a large w.o.1 corner to Nichs
	Johnson on Jarvis Johnson’s line.

✓	S. 26. E.	15.	po. [or 50]2	to a stake.
✓	S. 4. W.	116.	po.	pointers
✓	N. 86. W.	72.		w.o. sapling
	N. 56. W.	98.		T.J’s lines
	along his line
✓	N. 15. W.	30.	po. to falln oak ∠ to Jarvis Johnson.
	along his line
✓	N. 60.° E.	154.	po.	to begg

	John W. Bradley		1811. Jan. 24.
	to
	Benjamin Johnson		57. as
	in Bedford & Campbell
	begg at a stone ∠ to Nic. & Ben Johnson

	S. 30. E.	23.	po. to the mouth of a ditch.
	up the same as it now runs 28. po.
		to the head at the creek
✓	S. 5. E.	72.	po. to pointers round a b.o.3 stump
✓	S. 16. E.	13.	to a w.o. on Thomson’s line.
	along his line
✓	S. 65. W.	138.	po. to T.J’s line
	along his line
✓	N. 15. W.	140.	po. to sd Johnson’s ∠ on T.J.’s line
	thence along sd Johnson’s line
✓	S. 56. E.	98.	po. to a maple on the creek
✓	S. 86. E.	61.	po. to pointers on the creek
✓	N. 5. E.	117.	po to begg

MS (ViU: TJP, TB [Thurlow-Berkeley no.] 1136 [532-l]); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; brackets in original; with notes on verso described at TJ’s Agreement with Benjamin Johnson for Exchange of Poplar Forest Lands, 13 Dec. 1812. Dft (ViU: TJP, TB 1136 [532-o7]); consisting only of three plats in TJ’s hand, including a version of the one in MS.

TJ based these notes on survey information given in two deeds to Benjamin Johnson, one for 114½ acres from mary bradley, acting as executrix of her late husband, Absalom Bradley, 23 Jan. 1808, and the other for 57 acres from john w. bradley, 24 Jan. 1811 (Trs in Bedford Co. Deed Book, 12:308–9, 13:575).

1. Abbreviation for “white oak.”

2. Bedford Co. Deed Book: “fifty-six poles.”

3. Abbreviation for “black oak.”

Index Entries

Bedford County, Va.; TJ’s lands in search
Bradley, Absalom; and Bedford Co. land search
Bradley, John W.; and Bedford Co. land search
Bradley, John W.; survey search
Bradley, Mary (Absalom Bradley’s wife); and Bedford Co. land search
Bradley, Mary (Absalom Bradley’s wife); survey search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest search
Johnson, Benjamin; land transactions with search
Johnson, Jarvis; and Bedford Co. land search
Johnson, Nicholas search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest search
Thompson (Thomson), John (Campbell Co. landowner); and Bedford Co. land search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, [ca. 1 December 1812]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 1 December 1812

Reference

Cite as: “Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, [ca. 1 December 1812],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-05-02-0406. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5, 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 475–476.]