Then Survey'd for George Fairfax Esqr. Three Thousand & twenty
Three Acres of Land lying in Frederick County[46] on Long Marsh
Joyning Thomas Johnstones Land and bounded as follows
[Footnote 46: Frederick county, Virginia, was formed by Act of
Assembly in 1738, out of Orange county at the same time that
Augusta county was created. The boundaries of Frederick county were
measurably well defined; to Augusta, however, was left all the
western territory belonging to Virginia, much of it at that time an
unexplored wilderness. This immense area has since been divided and
now forms four great and independent states of the Union, namely,
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Frederick county, by a return
of the effective militia made to the governor of Virginia in 1777,
had but 923 men. The total population of the town of Winchester at
that time was 800 and a fraction.--_Kercheval_.]
Beginning at (A) Three Hickorys Corner Trees to Thomas Johnstones
Land & Extending thence along his S 13 W^t One Hundred Seventy two
Poles to (B) a Locust Johnstones Corner thence along another of his
Lines S 34 E^t 150 po. to (C) a White Oak another of his Corners
thence S^o 75 E^t 186 po & to (D) a large Hickory thence N^o 58
E^t 160 po xing a Spring Run to (E) three Red Oak Fx on a Ridge
thence N^o 30 E^t 436 po to a Hickory an Red Oak Fx at (F) thence
N^o 60 W^t 90 po to (G) a Large White Oak Fx thence N^o 7 E^t 420
po xing Long Marsh to (H) two Red Oaks and a W: O: Fx in a Bottom
in y^e afores^d Thomas Johnstones line finally along his line S^o
80 E^t one Hundred fourteen Poles to y^e Beginning Containing Three
Thousand & twenty three Acres.
p^r JAMES GENN
HENRY ASHBY } _Chain Men_
RICHARD TAYLOR }
ROBERT ASHBY _Marker_.
WM. LINDSEY _Pilot_.
N. B. The Distances in y^e above Writing ought to be Written in
Letters not in figures only I have done it now for Brevity sake[47]
[Footnote 47: At this place in the journal three leaves, six
pages, have been torn out. The edges left show that they had been
written upon by Washington. The next record of a survey in the
hand-writing of Washington is signed by him with the name of James
Genn, as is also the incomplete plot of a survey here reproduced
from the original by tracing; whether it is a study from field
notes by James Genn or an actual survey by Washington himself does
not appear. The paper upon which it is drawn and the style of the
hand-writing, place it as of a date current with the added records
of 1747-8.]
The Courses & Distances of the Following Plat is as follows viz
beginning at A and running thence N^o 30 E^t 436 poles thence N 60
W^t 90 pole thence N^o 7 E^t 365 pole to Long Marsh & 420 to the
end of the Course thence N 65 W^t 134 pole thence S^o 20 W^t 126
poles crossing Long Marsh to a Branch thereof commonly calld Cates
Marsh 218 pole to the end of the Course thence N 80 W^t 558 pole
thence S 25 W^t 144 pole thence S 33½ E^t 96 pole S 20 E^t 316 pole
thence S 80 E^t 114 pole thence East 280 pole thence S 15 E^t 262
to the Beginning Survey'd by