Lot ye 9th
Begining at Chesnut Oak on ye Mountain side corner to Lot 8th & Running along ye Line thereof So 55 Et 244 po to 3 Chesnut Oaks on a Steep Side thence No 35 Et 262 po to 2 Chesnut Oaks & a White Oak thence No 65 Et 80 to ye Low G: 126 po to ye Fork 244 po to a Hickory at ye Foot of the Mountain thence to ye Beginning So 35 Wt 262 po this Lot is very Good
Lot 10th Michael Calb Liveron Begining at a Hickory Corner to Lot ye 9th & Runing along ye Line So 55 Et 244 Pole to 2 Chesnut Oaks thence No 35 Et 262 po to 2 pines & a spanish Oak on ye Top of a Hill thence No 55 Wt 84 po to ye Low G: 230, po to ye Fork 270 po to a Red O: on ye Mountain Side thence to ye Beginning
Lot ye 11th Leonard Nave Beginning at a Red O: on ye Mountain side Corner to Lot ye 10th & Running along ye Line S 55 Et 270 Po to 2 Pines on ye Top of a Hill thence No 35 Et 262 po. to a Pine on a Hill side thence No 55 E 180 po to ye Bottom 248 po to ye Fork 274 to an Ash at ye Foot of ye Mountain thence to ye Beg.
Lot 12th Michael Stumps Begins at an Ash at ye Foot of ye Mountain Corner to Lot 11 & Running along ye Line So 55 Et 274 Po: to a Pine thence No 25 Et 320 po to 2 Pines thence No 65 Wt 188 po to ye Low G: 280 po to 2 Sycamores & a White Wood tree Standing on ye Fork thence up and Crossing ye Fork to ye Begg
Sunday 3d Last Night was a much more blostering night than ye former we had our Tent Carried Quite of with ye Wind and was obliged to Lie ye Latter part of ye night without covering there came several Persons to see us this day one of our Men Shot a Wild Turkie
Monday 4th this morning Mr Fairfax left us with Intent to go down to ye Mouth of ye Branch we did two Lots & was attended by a great Company of People Men Women & Children that attended us through ye Woods as we went showing there Antick tricks I really think they seem to be as Ignorant a Set of People as the Indians they would never speak English but when spoken to they speak all Dutch[35] this day our Tent was blown down by ye Violentness of ye Wind
[35] Dutch.—As early as 1730 there was a considerable settlement in the Shenandoah valley, of German immigrants and their descendants, who had first settled in Pennsylvania and then removed to, and taken up lands in, the valley of Virginia. They selected, chiefly, the good limestone lands with their centers of population near the head-waters of the Opequon creek, in Shenandoah, and the south-western part of Frederick county. They were all Protestants in religion. The town of Woodstock was originally and exclusively settled by Germans. The bill for its incorporation was reported to the House of Burgesses of Va., by Col. George Washington in 1761. For many years the German language was exclusively spoken in their settlement, and German customs and religious observances were retained with tenacity, their remoteness and seclusion securing to them almost perfect freedom from innovations. The Revolution found them patriotic supporters of the colony as against the pretensions of Great Britain. It was in the town of Woodstock, Shenandoah county, that Maj.-Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, minister of the Lutheran church, dressed in his uniform and with his sword buckled on, preached a farewell sermon in 1776, to a sympathizing and patriotic congregation, and the next day marched as colonel at the head of his German regiment, known subsequently as the 8th Virginia, to join the Continental army. Such names of places as Strasburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg, the latter now known as Shepherdstown, etc., perpetuate the fact that many of the earliest settlers in that section were German.—See Kercheval, p. 158.
April 4d
Lot ye 13 Vacant Begins at 2 Sycamores and a White Wood Tree standing on ye fork Corner to Lot 12th & Running along ye Line So 65 Et 280 po. to 2 pines thence No 25 Et 228 Po. to a Spanish Oak thence No 65 Wt 206 to ye Low G: 248 po to ye Fork 280 to a Rock Stone on ye Mountain Side thence to the Beginning S 25 Wt 228 poles