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{CONVERSIONS FOR LAND MEASUREMENTS
Length: 1 chain = 100 links = 4 poles = 4 rods = 66 feet = 20.1168 meters
Area: 1 Acre = 10 square chains = 160 poles = 43,560 square feet = 0.4047 hectare}
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Moses Colvin 75¾ Acres
Moses Colvin 104½ Acres
No. 1 Unsold 15½ Acres
Geo. Phebus hs {heirs} 100 Acres
Geo. Phebus hs {heirs} 87 Acres
No. 2 Unsold 20½ A
No. 3 Unsold 6.91 A
2½ A
Description of the unsold land subject to Taxation in Survey No. 3665 in name of Ralph Morgan for 666-2/3 Acres on Deer Creek. Lot No. 1 lying East of Moses Colvin's land contains 15½ Acres and is thus bounded Beginning at a Buckey & 2 blue Ash North West corner to a hundred Acre Lot (north west {???}) owned by the heirs of George Phebus in the original line of the Survey on the East bank of Deer Creek. Thence with a line of Phebus Land S 5° W 38 poles to a Box Elder & Mulbury another corner to Phebus thence S ½ W 25 poles crossing Deer Creek to a Stake corner to said Phebus land on the west side of the creek. Thence with a line of the same N 75° W 20 poles to 3 Elms another corner to said Land. Thence S 56° W 18½ poles to a Walnut & Oak Stumps Corner to Moses Colvin's Lands. Thence with his line N 9° W 69 poles to a stake in the old line of Survey Corner to said Colvin{.} Thence
Back
with said line S 89 E 45 poles crossing the creek to the Beginning.
Henry Phebus, Abe{?} Tanguery{?} - C.C.
P. N. White L.P.C{?} - Feby 29th 1849
Colvin & Phebus Land & unsold Land on Deer Cr in R. Morgan's Survey No. 3665.
John W. Sawyer
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