Land Patent: Little Meadow - Daniel Cresap - 50 acres - 1752

Last Update: Jan. 2, 2011

Patent Certificate 2443
Description: Little Meadow, Daniel Cresap, 50 Acres
Surveyed: Nov. 30th, 1751
Examined and Passed: Nov. 30, 1751
Patented: May 5, 1752

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Frederick County ss

By virtue of a warrant granted out of his Lordship's Land Office of this province Thomas Cresap for one thousand acres of land bearing date by renewment the November 26th 1751 and by him fifty acres is assigned to Daniel Cresap-

I therefore certify as Deputy Surveyor under his said Excell. Samuel Ogle, Esq. Governor of Maryland, that I have carefully laid out for and in the name of him the said Cresap, All that tract of land called The Little Meadow beginning at a bounded White Oak and a bounded Black Oak standing by the side of a small ridge near some sink holes about a quarter of a mile from Potomack River, near the upper Old Indian Town, running thence...

1. E 32 perches
2. N 10º E 92 perches
3. N 50 Wº 74 perches
4. W 40 perches
5. S 10º E 60 perches
Then by a straight line to the beginning trees

Containing and now laid out for fifty acres of land to be held of Conococheague Manor.

Surveyed Nov. 30th, 1751
Isaac Brooke

Transcribed by Steve Colby, Jan. 02, 2011