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

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 92b

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Photostat Copy of a Map and Survey by Unknown, [ca. aft. late eighteenth-early nineteenth century], 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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Access:

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Land Survey/ Map

General Condition:

Good.

Measurements:

8 ½ x 13 ¼ in.

Description:

The following item dated roughly 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. The map includes the acreage in various tracts. Numbers 7 and 8 contain 165 acres and 20 perches. A tract labeled part of number 14 contains 115 acres and part of 15 contains 55 acres and 128 perches. There are numerous directional markers for the boundaries of the lands within each tract, as well as a notation for the boundary between Pittston and Wilkes Barre. 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, 20 acres and 29 perches were sold to John C. Williams, and in the fourth, 104 ¾ acres were sold to Edwin M. 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.

Location:

Pittston, PA

Transcription Attempt:

Bottom: Reservations of Surface A 1 Acre surveyed by Theo[dore] Strong to John C. Williams B ½ do [same as above] “ Sam[ue]l Saylor to Sam[ue]l Billings C 20 A[cre]s 29 prs [perches] John C Williams Surface D 4 As 104 ¾ (?) prs Count by Nathan Carey to Edwin M Lewis