Land Patent: Good Will - Joseph Tomlinson - 100 Acres - 1760

Last Update: Jan. 4, 2011

Frederick County Patent Certificate No. 1680

Surveyed: June 8, 1760
Examined & Passed: Sept. 30, 1761
Patent Issued: June 8, 1760

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Frederick County ss

By virtue of a warrant granted out of his Lordship's Land Office of this province to Joseph Tomlinson of the County for two hundred acres of land bearing date 14th February 1760-

I therefore certify as Deputy Surveyor under his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq. Governor, of Maryland, that I have carefully laid out for and in the name of him, the said Tomlinson, all that tract of land called Good Will lying in the County. Beginning at a bounded Wild Cherry tree standing on the North side of Braddock's road and on the east side of the Little Meadows running thence...

1. N 65º W 80 perches
2. S 25º W 200 perches
3. S 65º E 80 perches
4. Then by a straight line to the beginning tree.

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

Surveyed June 8, 1760
John Murdock

Transcribed by Steve Colby