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BOOK of SURVEY's
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JULY 22d: 1749
SURVEY'D For Edward Hogan a certain Tract of Waste and Ungranted Land Situate Lying and being in the County of Augusta[78] and on the Lost River or Cacapehon about Six Miles within the Boundary Line of the Northern Neck and bounded as followeth Beginning at a white Oak and white Pine Saplins on the West Side of the River and Runs thence So 68° Et Two hundred and Eighty Poles to three Chesnut Oaks on a Steep Mountain Side thence No 9° Et Two hundred and three Poles to three Pines on the Mountain Side thence No 68° Wt Two hundd and Eighty Poles to two white Oaks in a Drain that makes from the Mountains thence So 2° Wt One hundred and thirty two Poles to two white Oaks thence So 22° Wt Sixty Eight po. to the Beginning Containing Three hundred and Thirty five Acres this 1st Day of November 1749[79]
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| Edward Hogan Marker | ||
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[78] Augusta county, and also Frederick county, were formed in 1738, out of Orange county which, prior to that date, had embraced all of Virginia beyond the Blue Ridge. The bounds of Frederick were defined as follows: the Potomac on the north, the Blue Ridge on the east, and on the south and west a line drawn from the head spring of the Hedgman creek to the head spring of the Potomac; all beyond this line, comprising the immense western territory belonging to Virginia, constituted Augusta county. The earliest Frederick county court was held at Winchester, Nov. 11, 1743; and that of Augusta county was held at Beverley's Mill Place, now Staunton, Dec. 9, 1745.
[79] The notes of the survey of land, on the 22d July, 1749, for Richard Barnes, and that of November 12, 1749, for Edward Hogan, were recorded on sheets of foolscap paper, and are bound up with other early miscellaneous papers of George Washington, preserved in the Department of State. They are here given nearly in their chronological place.