Scale 50 Parts to an Inch.
[Footnote 73: (this footnote refers to the illustration below)
[Illustration: (Plat of Francis Jett's land)]
[Footnote 74: (this footnote refers to the illustration below)
[Illustration: (Plat of Elizabeth Washington's land)]
SURVEY'D For Richard Barnes Gent^n of Richmond County[75] a
certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land Situate Lying and being
in the county of Culpeper[76] and Bounded as followeth Beginning
at three white Oaks in Normans Line and Corner Trees to
(Aaron Pinson's now) M^r Barnes's Land & Extending thence N^o 42°
30′ W^t Ninety five Poles to a branch of Flat Run Two hund^d and
Eighteen Poles to a Large white Oak Corner to Norman thence along
another of his Lines N^o 39° E^t Thirty four Poles to three white
Oaks & a Hickory Cor: to the said Norman and John Roberts thence
along Robert's Line S^o 78° W^t One hund^d and Eighty three Poles
to the Road that Leads over Norman's Foard Two hund^d and Sixteen
Poles to two white Oaks in a Glade Cor^r to the said Roberts and
M^r Francis Slaughter thence with the said Slaughters Line S^o 5°
W^t One hund^d and Sixty four Poles to three white Oaks in the
said Slaughter Line thence leaving his Line S^o 66° E^t Two hund^d
and thirty Six Poles to three white Oaks amongst a Parcel of Rock
Stones Barnes's Corner thence with his Line N^o 53° E^t One hund^d
and Eighty Six Poles to the Beginning Containing Four Hundred Acres
this Twenty Second Day of July 1749.
JOHN LONEM } _Cha Men_
EDWARD CORDER }
EDWARD HOGAN _Marker_
by
WASHINGTON S C C[77]
[Footnote 75: For this survey Washington received the sum of £2 3s
0d on the 25th of July, 1749, as shown by entry in his cash book;
a copy of which is in the Toner Collection, Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C.]
[Footnote 76: Culpeper county, Virginia, was formed by act of
assembly in 1748, and named in honor of Lord Thomas Culpeper,
governor of Virginia from 1682 to 1686. The old family name was
spelled with two p's, but in using the name as a locality one p is
dropped. Its original form, however, was Colepeper. The widow of
Lord Culpeper spelled her name and wrote it, "Mar. Culpeper--Leeds
Castle, Dec. 19, 1706." Lord Culpeper and Lord Arlington had
obtained from Charles II in 1672 a grant of proprietary rights over
the whole of Virginia, but within a short time, in consequence of
resistance by the colonists, surrendered all except quit rents and
escheats, and a duty of three half-pence per pound on tobacco. Two
years after ceasing to be governor, Lord Culpeper, who had become
by purchase sole owner of the grant, further abandoned all his
rights except that of property in the lands of that part of the
Northern Neck beyond the Blue Ridge, with an annual pension of £600
for twenty years in lieu of what he gave up. This estate of about
5,700,000 acres of land in the Shenandoah valley and the mountains
beyond, went to his daughter and heiress, Catherine, who became the
wife of Thomas, the 5th Lord Fairfax, and from her to their son
Thomas the 6th, and the first American Lord Fairfax of Washington's
time. Lord Culpeper had been one of the commissioners of
plantations under Charles II, and was a man of ability for business
and public affairs, although rapacious; and, as governor, wholly
British, without that sympathy for Virginia interest, such as
Berkeley, with all his faults, had shown. The county of Culpeper,
however, was conspicuous for the patriotism of its inhabitants
during the Revolution. Her "minute men," Randolph said on the floor
of the United States Senate, "were raised in a minute, armed in a
minute, marched in a minute, fought in a minute, and vanquished in
a minute." The motto on their flag was, "The Culpeper Minute Men,"
along the top border; in the center a curled rattlesnake with head
erect and rattling tail; on either side the words "Liberty--or
Death;" and beneath, along the lower border, "Don't Tread on
Me." In the clerk's office of Culpeper court house is recorded
the following: "20 July, 1749 [O. S.] George Washington, Gent.,
produced a commission from the President and Master of William and
Mary College, appointing him to be surveyor of this county, which
was read, and thereupon he took the usual oaths," etc.]
[Footnote 77: Washington, S. C. C.--This is supposed to be an
official check mark signature of George Washington as a licensed
surveyor of Culpeper county. The plat of this survey is published
by Sparks, vol. 1, p. 14, and is reproduced here, as the editor
has failed, so far, in finding the original among any of the
Washington papers extant. The plat bears date two days after he
filed his certificate and took the necessary oath before the court
in Culpeper county referred to in the preceding note.]
[Illustration: (Plat of Richard Barnes' land)]