Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
FARM AM GARDEN LOTS.
.AVANNAH WAS ORTGI-
NALTlY LAID OUT.

utt1 ons Upon Which They Were Held
The Discoverer of the Law of Mag
netic Motion and What the Records
Say OF Him.
The early history Of Savannah is full Of
interest. The records dating back to its
settlement contain much that relates TO
the city now. The MORNING News, in
its interviews with Isaac Beckett, Esq,
has given many interesting narratives Of
the days when the city was a town and
its population, now over 10000, was less
than 1850. A reporter called on Mr..
Beckett yesterday and found him busy
compiling abstracts Of old deeds and
records, which contribute TO the volume
Of valuable data upon which he is en-
gagged.
Upon being asked in regard to the orig
inal division Of land when Savannah was
laid cut, AIr. Beckett gave some interest
ing facts concerning the town, farm and
garden lots, and how they were disrrib-
uted.
When the town Of Savannah was origi-
nally laid OUT he said. s.the Trustees set
apart to each male inhabitant Of full ace
one town lot-60 feet in width by 80 feet in
length-One garden lot five acres adiOin-
ing the town and one farm lot of nearly Is
acres. These garden lots were triangular
IN form, every pair forming a square Of ten
acres, and We're designated as garden lots
east and garden lots west" the White
Blum road or Bull street extended being
the dividing line. In a short time most of
these lost their identity and became
merged in tracts bearing other names.
Ihey were originally nun bered from l to
164 on the east and on the west from to
lO4. The line formed BY Gwinnett con-
tlnued was the southern boundary of all
the garden lots. A large number of the
lots west are now merged in the SPRING
held plantation, and on the east in that
part OF the city east OF Lincoln street and
In the low grounds beyond.
FAIR LAWN.
THE original Fair Lawn property con-
tanned $40 acres, and was, atone time,
owned by Richard Wylly. The tract
was formed principally of the garden
lots east. Portions were sold from time
to time, until at last the term Fair Lawn
was applied only to the residence and adj
joining grounds of William 2, Brown.
near the junction of East Broad and Cor
don streets. The owners of the original
Far Lawn tract became so numerous that
1t IS impossible to furnish a list of them
within reasonable limits.
THE farm lots lay south of the garden
= u
creek, on the west about four
miles and on the south three miles. They
were laid out in wards. tythings and
trust lots, to correspond with the old
wards and Tythings in town: each ward
containing about four square miles of
land, one square mile representing a
tythlng and trust lot in the town, and the
lots were numbered and otherwise desig-
mated in unison with the town lots.
TOWNSHIP PRIVILEGES.
Beyond the farm lots the Trustees laid
out several township privileges, of one
square mile each. Acton. Hampstead and
Highgate being among them. The lots in
these towns are Of 80 acres each, and are
yet, in most cases, conveyed by their old
numbers and names.
DEED OF THE TOWN, FARM AND GARDEN
LOTS.
"a portion Of deed executed in 1873.
conveys to the original grantees the |
own, farm and garden lots, and pre-
scrlbes the conditions upon which the /
same should be held 1t is as follows:
Now, know We that we, the SAID Thomas /
Christie and William Calvert, pursuant to the /
said deed, and in pursuance of the SAID trust, /
10 grant and enfeof unto John Goddard one I
house lot in Wilmington tything, in Der 1
BY ward, expressed in the said plan by No. I. 4
containing 90 feet in front and 80 feet in +
lepth, and one garden lot containing five /
acres, expressed In the said plot by No. IL. /
ying southeast from the centre of the said /
plot by No. and letter A, in the said ward /
and tything, containing forty -four acres and 1
me hundred and forty and one pole, making
ogetner nifty acres OF land: to have and to
lold the said fifty acres OF land unto him. the /
aid John Goddard, during the term of his
natural life, and after his deeease then
o the heirs, male, of his body for
sver. Upon the conditions and under the /
EXPRESS Limitations hprqiu after [
leldlng and paying for such town lot, garden
OF and farm, containing together fifty acres
Is aforesaid, TO the said Trustees for establish
ng the colony OF Georgia IN America, and to
heir successors. yearly and every year, the
'ent or sum of two shillings lawful money of
treat Britain. the same to be paid to such
lersoh or persons, and at such places in the
aid town Of Savannah, in the said Province /
Il Georgia, as by the Common Council for /
he time being or the said Trustees shall be
,ppolnted. The first payment to be made on
ne hrst day of the eleventh year, to be CON-
,uted from the day Of the date Of these pres
nts: Provided always, and these presents are
lpon these conditions, That if it shall hap /
zen that the said yearly rent of two shillings,
T Of any part thereof, be unpaid by the space
1 twelve kalendar months next after the day
f payment on which the same ought to be
aid as aforesaid. the holder shall be eyicted.
HOW THE GRANTS WERE HELD.
'EThe grant required each owner to erect
within eighteen months from the date
here Of one house of brick or framed
quare timber work on the town lot, at
east of twenty-four feet in length, sixteen
n breadth and eighteen in height, and to
.bide, settle and continue in the province
or and during the full term Of three
ears. They were also required, within
en- years, TO clear and cultivate ten acres
f land, and to plant one hundred white
trees. The town lot conveyed
n the above grant is now covered by
iorrePs building, southwest corner of
Bull and Bay streets; the garden lot.
lumber eleven, lies in the low ground
asst of the city, and the farm lot is on the
eft of the White Bluff road, nearly
opposite DittmersYille.
THE LOTS AT NEW DEPTFoRD.
81 wish to correct a statement that ap-
feared in last Sundays News. l said in
t that Nicholas Bayard established the
OTIS near Fort Jackson known as the New
)eptfOrd wharf lots. The owner of that
was NichOll Turnbull not Nicho-
as Bayard. The latter was the owner of
'ther property in that vicinity, but not OF
he Deptford plantation. 1t is matter of
title consequence, but for the sake of ac-
uraey / wish the correction made. l
made the assertion at that time from
memory, and without referring to my alb
tracts.
"In connection with the wharf lot prop
rty, will mention that the front of Hut
hinson's Island, opposite the city, was
llso laid out in wharf lots, about the year
$40. There are three other lots that
to mention-the old wind mill
lite, just below the Eastern wharves, now
'wned by Capt. w. W. Gordon. and known
is the Anderson wharyes, and two other
OTIS east of that, formerly known as part
he Of Shandy Hall plantation. believe
his includes all the wharf property except
he wharyes of the Central and Savannah,
florida and Western Railroad Companies,
'wned by these corporations.
CURIOsTTIEs OF THE RECORDS.
"Among the curiosities of the records
nay be found singular agreement, ex-
cuted in 1918, between Joel Abbott, of
Wilkes county, Georgia, and Stephen and
ohilander Hall, of Savannah. This agree
nent states that the parties mutually
the fact that Joel Abbott
irst discovered the law of magnetic mo-
ion, by which longitude was discover
bile, and that he was the first man who
applied the principles to practice,
md defined the longitude thereby,
'sThe parties to this contract agree to
prosecute voyages, mature and perfect
and to use all industry and
kill necessary to render the discovery of
Ongitude by magnetism complete, and
make il applicable to the common uses of