Jim Frame, post: 444768, member: 10 wrote: Direction in the Star*Net context refers to a bearing or azimuth, i.e. an angle with respect to a known ori...
The first description also mentions an Emmor Trego. The US Federal Census of 1870 reported an Emmor Trego, age 81, living with his son, Albert Trego, ...
The first description mentions a George Stoneback as a landowner. Per the Proof of Death Register for Chester County, PA: George Stoneback died in War...
Oh, this one would have been much easier had we the actual language of the conveyance to begin with. Here it is from a deed executed in 1995, plainly ...
James Fleming, post: 444742, member: 136 wrote: I took a quick look at the deed yesterday. I believe at least one of the calls was for a stone in the...
BTW, the difference between the property as represented on the county GIS (the red outline) and as where I strongly suspect it is actually located (th...
The 1873 map of Warwick Township shows the segment of S Hill Camp Road running across Triangles A and B as straight. While that may be an artifact of ...
As the whole picture starts to emerge, some of the details make a bit more sense. Here is a sketch of the two triangles of land mentioned by the origi...
Tom Adams, post: 444708, member: 7285 wrote: [USER=3]@Kent McMillan[/USER] Wow! some awesome research, Kent.If the deeds in the poster's chain of titl...
There are more than a few resources available on line. In the course of looking for 19th-century atlas maps showing Harmonyville, I turned up this map...
It looks as if the schoolhouse at Harmonyville might have been built in 1882.At least, this is what the superintendant of schools for the county repor...
If the bearings quoted in the OP as N78-1/2?øW and N8?øW were as they appear in some earlier conveyance of the land, then they would be consistent wit...
John Evers, post: 444644, member: 467 wrote: Good job Kent.I think it is becoming clear that the true line is probably rather close to the old school ...
Gene Kooper, post: 444650, member: 9850 wrote: Well, there you go assuming again. I suppose one could spend a few extra days with an airless jack ham...
Gene Kooper, post: 444410, member: 9850 wrote: I know you are just being obtuse, again, but you should realize by now that I retrace mineral surveys ...
Dan B. Robison, post: 444453, member: 34 wrote: April 24, 1951 Okay, I'll see your 1951 and raise you 14. I found this photo from 09/15/1937 availabl...
Dan B. Robison, post: 444461, member: 34 wrote: Here is one from April 17, 1968 The way that I handle similar historical aerial photos in Texas it to...
Dan B. Robison, post: 444453, member: 34 wrote: April 24, 1951 Yes, historical aerial photos, particularly when rectified against modern aerial ortho...
Here, for example, is what the US Historic Declination Calculator generates for the locality of the parcel subject of this thread:[PRE]Lat: 40?ø 11...