Lot y^e 13 Vacant Begins at 2 Sycamores and a White Wood Tree
standing on y^e fork Corner to Lot 12^{th} & Running along y^e
Line S^o 65 E^t 280 po. to 2 pines thence N^o 25 E^t 228 Po. to a
Spanish Oak thence N^o 65 W^t 206 to y^e Low G: 248 po to y^e Fork
280 to a Rock Stone on y^e Mountain Side thence to the Beginning S
25 W^t 228 poles
Lot 14^{th} James Simson's Begins at a Rock Stone on y^e Mountain
Side Corner to Lot y^e 13^{th} & Runs thence S^o 65 E^t 280 pole to
a Spanish Oak thence N^o 25 E^t 228 pole to a Large Hickory in a
Vally thence N^o 65 W^t 108 to y^e Low G: 180 pole to y^e Fork 280
pole to 3 Red Oaks on y^e Mountain side near a Spring Branch thence
to y^e Beginning S 25 W^t 228 pole this Lot I survay'd.
The Courses of y^e Fork from Lot 14^{th} Down to y^e Mannor Line
Beginning at 2 Red Bud Trees[36] & a Black Walnut on y^e West side
y^e Fork & Running Down y^e Several Courses of y^e Fork N^o 9 E^t
19 po N^o 34 W^t 12 po N^o 15 E^t 22 po N^o 39 E^t 24 po N^o 12 E^t
23 po N^o 17 W^t 66 po N 6 E^t 42 po opposite to Henry Harris's
house N^o 26 W^t 20 po West 32 op Phillip Moors house bears N^o 86
W^t N^o 23 W^t 48 po to a Blazed Tree[37] from here Phillip Moors
house bears S^o 54 W^t N^o 6 W^t 33 po N^o 28 E^t 26 po N^o 73 E^t
28 po N^o 7 W^t 85 po to a blazed tree N^o 45 W^t 24 po. y^e Widow
Wolfs[38] house bears S^o 52 W^t about 60 po. N^o 65 W^t 27 po S^o
84 W^t 18 po. S 50 W^t 14 po S. 19 W 20 po N^o 67 W^t 22 po. N^o 28
W^t 23 po. S^o 78 W^t 29 po N^o 71 W^t 25 po. N^o 39 W^t 19 po N^o
3 W^t 24 po. xx N^o 60 W^t 20 po N^o 39 W^t 20 po N^o 8 E^t 46 po
to an Ash black Walnut & White Walnut in y^e Mannor Line on y^e s^d
fork thence S^o 36 W^t along y^e Mannor Line 320 poles to 2 W: O &
a R: O.
[Footnote 36: The Red Bud or Judas tree.--A common tree that grows
wild in the United States. In botany it is known as the "_Cercis
Canadensis_," and often grows to the height of 30 feet or more.
It flowers in April, clothing its limbs in a reddish-purple bloom
for a week or ten days before its leaves appear, and from this
circumstance it is popularly called red bud.]
[Footnote 37: Blazed trees.--These are surveyors' marks made
on trees to proclaim and identify certain routes or lines. The
"blaze" is made by removing with an axe a strip of the outer bark
of a tree or sapling, for about a foot in length and well into
the inner bark. In the future growth of the tree a lighter color
marks the cicatrix which rarely ever wholly disappears. Surveyors,
to distinguish corner trees in a survey, not only blaze the sides
of the tree in the direction their lines run but cut three small
notches through the bark which will remain distinct during the life
of the tree.]
[Footnote 38: Widow Wolf.--There was a Fort Wolf on Stony creek a
few miles south-west of Woodstock, erected by the Germans at an
early period in the settlement of the valley; there is also a marsh
or creek named Wolf's marsh, which empties into the Shenandoah
about twelve miles above Ashby's Ferry. Possibly these were so
called from the name of this widow's husband.]
Tuesday 5^{th} We went out & did 4 Lots we were attended by y^e
same Company of People y^t we had y^e day before