Item 37a: Hand Drawn Map and Survey by Unknown, Rendering the Lands of Samuel Saylor, (removed to legal box #2), [ca. mid-late nineteenth century]

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 92a

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Hand Drawn Map and Survey by Unknown, Rendering the Lands of Samuel Saylor, (removed to legal box #2), [ca. mid-late nineteenth century]

Dates

Created: [ca. mid-late nineteenth century]

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Land Survey/ Map

General Condition:

Fair. There is some tearing along once folded seams.

Measurements:

8 ½ x 14 in

Description:

The following item dated roughly during the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century, depicts a hand drawn map of a survey for Samuel Saylor, with annotations of surface reservations made in individual sales and deed transfers. A title at the bottom of the page states that this is a map described in the conveyance of lands to the Pittston Elmira Coal company to Northern Coal and Iron. The map includes the acreage in his tract, being 100 acres and 73 perches in Pittston. The map also has other neighboring tracts mapped out, marking them as parts of tracts numbered from 4, 14, 15, 7 and Saylor’s tracts, 2 and 3. There are numerous dotted or scrawled lines that indicate the railroads, canals, and waterways present in the tract, such as Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, canal, River Road, bush road, and Wilkes Barre and Pittston Public Road. For two of the tracts drawn, the creator has colored them in with blue pencil. The Susquehanna river is seen in the left hand margin of the page. At the bottom of the page, a note mentions various deals where a percentage of the surface has been withheld. In the first, Theodore Strong conveyed 1 acre to John C Williams. In the second, Saylor himself sold the same to S[amuel] Billings. In the third, 29 acres were sold to John C. Williams, and in the fourth, 4 acres were sold to Edwin C. Lewis by Nathan Carey. The original archivist had these items compiled with other photostats in a former item 23: Copies of Boundary Lines and Surveys, which contained a number of various deeds and surveys for the Samuel Saylor lands. The person for Samuel Billings has been estimated by another item in the collection, 15.126 Item 70: Typescript of a Land Deed from Samuel and Julia Ann Saylor and Samuel Billings, 1825 May 28, where Billings is striking a land contract with Saylor in 1825, and would have had to be of a certain age and is located in the Wyoming region.

Location:

Pittston, PA

Transcription Attempt:

Reservations of Surface

A 1 Acre conveyed by T[heodore] Strong to John C Williams B ½ “ “ [same as above] Sam[uel] Saylor to S. Billings C. 29 acres John C Williams Surface D. 4 acres “ “ by Nathan Carey to Edwin C. Lewis Map of described in Conveyance of Pittston Elmira Coal to the Northern Coal + Iron