Land Patent: Grassy Cabbin - Capt. Thomas Basset - 500 Acres - 1767

Last Update: Jan. 4, 2011

Frederick County Patent Certificate No. 1707
Surveyed: Dec. 5, 1767
Examined & Passed: July 25, 1768
Patent Issued: Aug. 2, 1768

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Frederick County ss

By virtue of a special warrant granted out of his Lordship's Land Office of this province to Capt. Thomas Basset, Engineer in his majesties service for five hundred acres of land bearing date by renewment the 4th of November, 1767

We therefore certify as Deputy Surveyors under his Excellancy Horatio Sharpe, Esq. Governor of Maryland that we have carefully surveyed and laid out for and in the name of him, the saidCapt. Thomas Basset, all that tract of land lying in the County aforesaid beginning at a bounded White Oak standing on the North side of Braddock's Road between the Little Meadows and the Little Crossing and running thence...

1. S 78-1/2º E 153 perches
2. N 50º E 42 perches
3. N 28º E 160 perches
4. N 59-1/2º W 187 perches<
5. N 72º W 122 perches<
6. S 19º W 58 perches<
7. S 60º W 62 perches<
8. S 40º W 100 perches<
9. S 24º W 26 perches<
10. Then by a straight line to the beginning.

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

Surveyed Dec. 5, 1767
Francis Deakin
John Selby

Transcribed by Steve Colby