Unique calls

"...thence easterly a two cigarette ride..."

We have some wagon wheel calls (thence westerly 50 turns of a standard wagon wheel). The one I saw was in San Bernardino County (north of Victorville) along a section line in a deed.

...to a maytag agitator...

Wagon Thimble with a Stone Coal deposit. Called for in deed description 3 out of 4 found. The coal was about 1" in diameter. Unusual call yesterday asking me if I wanted to sell out, a quick no took care of it.
jud

Dad showed me a deed once from when he was in law school that read "as far as an indian can walk in X hours to a point in a cliff where the bear jumped off" a second parcel in the same deed referenced the area in doors. I researched one in my days in Upstate NY that read like the two farmers that were adjoiners sat down and recited what the deed should read to a transcriptionist, it had phrases like "beginning a little ways from his barn along the fence between mine and his property to the ditch..." that was fun trying to tie down 40 yrs later when the two proprties a had been joined into one trailer park.

While doing research for a local tax mapping project I came upon a call "go 7 rods to the tree where John killed the bear." Evidently the bear got in his licks too, because a deed filed about a month later called for "go 15 chains and 7 links to the spot where John is buried". (These deeds are in the early 1860's records of Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi. If you want to see some oddball stuff, come to Mississippi and prowl the deed records starting with Book 1. You will not believe what you will find there.)

Come to MA, go into the basement, and find the deeds written in "the Kings english" some actually deeded from kings.

I enjoyed reading a deed shown to me by a fellow who had worked previously in North Carolina. One of the calls was "to a cucumber". I had visions of trying to find the remnants of a long rotted vegetable. Then he explained that what was meant was a cucumber tree, which would never be found in my neighborhood. I guess it could have said walnut or pecan. Then, I would have guessed it meant to a tree.

Had a call to a Buffalo wallow.

Had a call to a rock basin. (thats just an eroded shallow hole in the rock)

Had the call for a wagon wheel

had had a call to an axle

Had a call to a gun barrel

calls for drill steel and roof bolts

The call for window weights

The call for an Indian mound was by far the most anticipating to go look for and the most disapointing to discover a logging road through where it used to be.

Fish Plate.

Darn sturdy monument but had me going the first time. The internet makes it so much easier to research stuff like this.

found a couple of axles in my time, but never found the gun barrel.
derringer type gun or battleship?

Axles are commonly called for around here.

I surveyed 120 acres a few years back that had large partitions along the South and North lines of it. On that tract alone, I found 5 shotgun barrels. We find axles with the spider gears like you show pretty regular. Most are PTO shafts though.

Grate Bars are common in Louisiana. (Iron bars used as furnace grates in Sugar Mills.)

A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the Fourth Century B.C. Although invented in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens, most of the corpus of surviving fish plates originate in South Italy, where Fourth-Century B.C. Greek settlers, called "Italiotes," manufactured them

I had one once that read "thence along the county road to a mud hole"

> I had one once that read "thence along the county road to a mud hole"

Honestly, those of us in adjoining states don't want to make West Virginia jokes, but sometimes you make it just so hard to resist. 😉

beginning at the corner of the building that once was there or might have once been there...

later on it says...

the width of the lot being easily ascertainable by reference to the oldest inhabitant of the town.

I remember reading about a stringer of section corners in Wyoming that were monumented with Mastodon bones.