Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-09

poles to a point in a gully opposite
a marked sugar and chestnut cor
ner between said Ruckman's draft
tract and his 1920 acre Gregory
Ridge tract DETER "E"O; thence
with said 362 20 acre tract, same
bearing $50 poles, whole distance
$50 poles, to a point on the South
west bank of Erwin draft run. A
small double sugar bears South ~
degrees West 2S links. Two white
oaks a division corner between the
lands formerly owned by Leonard
and Benjamin Erwin, and also a
corner of lots Nos. IA and Is miss
ing; thence with the division line
between said lots Nos, II and 10
North % degrees West 724 poles,
EXTENDED distance) 122 poles
to two beeches and fallen ash in the
Erwin draft between the run and the
end of Piney point; thence with Ag-
mes Erwin's line N. 81 degrees 10
minutes w. 253 poles to smallred
oak, forked chestnut oak and small
locust on the top of big ridge;
thence leaving said Agnes Erwin
with Z. T. POOLS line, same bear
ing continued ~ poles to two red
oaks on the east side of the noun
tain near the top; thence leaving
said Pool and with the line of that
interest of Mrs. j. F. Patterson and
Others in lot No. Is, II poles to a
top of the mountain, continued %
i72 poles whole distance 1922
poles to two birches, a chestnut oak
and chestnut sapling and several
other saplings marked for witness.
es. on the west side of the top OF
the mountain, chestnut oak and
chestnut called for fallen down,
North II degrees 80 minutes West,
crossing Apple Tree Run at lo6
poles, the top of the Big Butt near
and below some marked chestnuts,
chestnut oak and hickory sapljngs,
at 1870 poles, continued whole dis
lance PIG poles to pile OF stone
between a sugar and dead ash at
the foot of ridge and on the east
side of the South Branch of Stoney
Creek, and 3 poles from the east
bank of said run; thence North %
| degrees 80 minutes West 1923
poles to a sugar and beech on the
east side of said run and about l.5O
poles below the mouth Of Galford's
Salt-block Run; thence North 2 de-
grees and 5 minutes East crossing
said Stoney run, crossing it again
at 169 poles near and below the
falls in same, continued, whole dis
lance POP poles to red oak and
fallen red oak (old marks found on
the bark of the fallen red oak and
a white oak newmarket at the fall
en- red oak) and several trees mark
ed for witnesses on the south side
of a ridge; thence North AZ degrees,
West crossing Stoney Run along
the side of a ridge 252 AS poles to a
point on Mrs. Mary E. Gums line
| Mote: The timber called for is a
white oak and chestnut oak. The
white oak was found and is four
poles below Mrs. Gums line).
Thence leaving said lot No. Is and
with Mrs. Gums lines and the lines
of lot No. IA, North % degrees
| West 80 poles to a maple and gum
on the Northeast bank of Stoney
Run, after crossing it, thence north
Al degrees Is minutes West 1864
poles to a white oak and hickory at
| the foot of hill, Jonas kelley's
corner; thence south 81 degrees q
minutes East Al 60 poles to stake
on top of the ridge, witnessed by 6
dogwood bearing South 50 degrees
| 3 minutes East Az links, and awhile
oak bearing North As degrees West
% links, both having been previous
llv marked a corner; thence South
43 degrees 80 minutes East up the
north brow of said ridge "A poles
to a chestnut oak and fallen white
)oak on the north brow of said ridge
thence North 3S degrees 80 MINUTES
East $50 poles to a fallen W WI dt
oak, an old corner, continued 23.6(
poles to a white oak on a rldge
corner between Joseph Kelley an nc
H. L. Taylor, continued 1881
poles to a red oak in a hollow cor
ner between j. L. and W. b. Hud
son and with w. B. Hudson, con
tinued IS poles, whole distance
1920 poles to two white oaks OF
the top of a ridge witnessed by some
oak and chestnut saplings; thenc'
IN. 81 degrees 80 minutes E, 81 pole
I'D the top of the ridge to Whit
oak and hickory sapllng. near