Christopher Acklin, VA Patent 6982.0

Patent: VA 6982.0

Description: ACKLIN, CHRISTOPHER

Survey for John Latham - 200 acres in Lincoln County, Kentucky

28 March 1788

The Court Listener website included the following case:
Re: Howard v. Watkins, 276 S.W. 1075 (Ky. Ct. App. 1925)

The John Latham survey was assigned to Christopher Acklin, and the following is the general description of the tract of land: "Lying and being in the county of Lincoln on the south side of Cumberland river and on both sides of Crank's creek, including Cathrion's improvement, and bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning on the south side of a gully on the west side of the creek at a poplar and 2 birches." Note the difference in the description of the two beginning corners. The Latham 1,000 acres begins on "a poplar and 2 birches" described as standing "on the south side of a gully on the west side of the creek." The Noel 3,000 acres begins on "a poplar and 2 beeches" described as standing on the "left side of Cumberland river on the west side of a gully."

Bearing in mind that the Latham 1,000 acre survey recited that it covered lands lying on the south side of Cumberland river on both sides of Crank's creek, we find that survey was made March 27, 1788. We find that on March 28, 1788, the following day, the same surveyor surveyed for the same John Latham two surveys, one for 200 acres and one for 300 acres; and on the next day, March 29, 1788, the same surveyor surveyed for the same John Latham a 250 acre survey, all three of which *Page 82 adjoin each other and all of which recite that they lie on Puckett's creek in Lincoln county, Kentucky.