Land Patent: Indian Fields - Capt. Thomas Cresap - 250 A. - 1742

Last Update: Jan. 26, 2011

Prince Georges County Patent Certificate No. 1142

Surveyed: May 12, 1742
Examined & Passed: Sept. 7, 1742
Patent Issued: Nov. 29, 1742

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Prince Georges County ss

By virtue of a warrant granted out of his Lordship's Land Office of this province to Charles Carroll of Anne Arundal County for 805 acres of land which said warrant was by the said Carrolls on the 26th Day of March Anno Domini 1742 Assigned to Capt. Thomas Cresap ~

I therefore certify as the Deputy Surveyor of Prince Georges County under his Ex. Samuel Ogle, Governor of Maryland, that I have carefully laid out for and in the name of him the Capt. Thomas Cresap all that tract of land lying in Prince Georges County called Indian Fields, Beginning at two bounded White Oaks all most in the Hollow about forty degrees eastward from the mouth of the South Branch or River Potomac running thence...

1. N 65º W 48 perches
2. S 25º W 66 perches
3. S 65º W 20 perches
4. S 50º E 28 perches
5. S 84º E 100 perches
6. S 67º E 80 perches
7. S 40º E 106 perches
8. S 53º E 80 perches
9. S 65º E 58 perches
10. N 82º E 110 perches
11. S 84º E 110 perches
12. S 77º E 92 perches
13. N 85º E 120 perches
14. N 40 perches
15. S 85º W 86 perches
16. S 14
17. N 80º W 244 perches
18. N 70º W 148 perches
19. N 63º W 292 perches
20. Then by a straight line to the beginning tree

Containing now laid out for two hundred & fifty acres of land to be held of Calverton Manor.

Surveyed this 12th Day of May Anno Domini 1742.
Peter Dent, Dep. Surveyor.
of Prince Georges County

Transcribed by Steve Colby