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Facts and Events
Early Land Survey in Frederick County, VA
- April 2d 1750 - Then Survey'd for Jacob Pugh a certain Tract of Waste Land Situate in Frederick County and on a branch of Cacapehon calld Trout Run beginning at a Poplar and black Walnut on Evan Pugh s Line on the branch and Run thence N° 50° East One hundd & Sixty Poles to two white Oaks in a Bottom thence S° 40° East Two hundd and twenty Poles to three white Oaks thence S 50 W1 One hundd & Sixty Poles to two red Oaks two Gums & a Maple Evan Pughs Corner thence with his Line N 40 W1 Two hundd and twenty Poles to the begg containing 220 Acres. Plat drawn.
- DAVID EDWARDS )
- JOSEPH POWELL j
- EVAN PUGH JUNR Mr
- [Source: "Journal of my Journey over the Mountains", by George Washington, while surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron in the Northern Neck of Virginia].
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