Survey of Mohawk Lands, [October?] 1786
Survey of Mohawk Lands
[October? 1786]
| Extending the 2 longest lines each to 160 chs makes | 953 acres | ||||||
| extending lines 116 to 160 leaving the other 106 | 856 | ||||||
| taking one at 116 the other 106 | 769 | ||||||
| making the | Closing line | 36 & parallelizing the two longest (160) | 722 | ||||
| do. | do. | do. & sedating this parallelism | 873 | ||||
| taking 2 long | lines | at 160 & 106, | the closing is | 49 Chs. | |||
| do. | do. | at 160 each | do. | 44 | & nearly paral[l]el to back line | ||
| do. | do. | at 160 & 116 | do. | 43 | do. | the quantity 875 acres |
|
Land on Mohawk (Courses & distances)
| chains | ||||
| N. | 48° | 15″ | E. | 160 |
| N. | 43 | E. | 93 | |
| S. | 31 | 15 | E. | 31–70 links |
| S. | 40 | 15 | W. | 111 |
| S. | 48 | 15 | W. | 106 |
| Line to the Beginning | 36 chs. | |||
Ms (DLC). Docketed by JM. The recto contained JM’s rough sketch, with surveyor’s designations, of the acreage he bought in a speculative venture with Monroe in upstate New York. One boundary followed the course of an unidentified creek or river.