Running Lines

Source

Connected To Early Events In The Lincoln Family

Source

William And Phebe Scott, Grantors

New York, Land Records...Livingston Deeds 1831-1833...:

William Scott of Sparta and Phebe W. Scott, His Wife

Livingston County, New York

Deed# 10-502

29 December 1836

"Upon William Scott fell the mantle of his father's [James Scott's] usefulness and influence.  William Scott was born July 18, 1790, in Mount Bethel, Northampton county, Pa., coming with his father to Sparta, as before stated, in 1806."

"In 1814, he became foreman in the cloth dressing establishment of Benjamin Hungerford... . At this place began his acquaintance with Millard Fillmore, afterward president of the United States, who had come here to learn the wool carding business."

"In 1820 Mr. Scott married Phebe Woodruff of Livonia...". [Source]

One Of Washington's Surveying Tools

Displayed at Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington In Columbiana, Alabama

"Washington...kept a diary not only of all surveys of the tracts and lots made, but also of many curious and interesting circumstances incident to the wild, romantic life which their business required." [Source]

Cross-posted at Relatively Fiction

One Of Washington's Surveying Tools

Artifact Displayed At The Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington

Charles Ward, Grantee, Deed 13-89 In Wayne County

Deed# 13-89

20 July 1835

Aaron and Susan Lyons

To

Charles Ward

Greenfield Township, Wayne, Michigan Territory

Original Patent Authorized By Andrew Jackson - Source: BLM-GLO

Washington's 1753 Journey

Source

Some Trousdale Property In White County

History Of White County, Illinois (1883)

*Alexander Trousdale, NE 1/4 of 11, June 6, 1815.
James Trousdale, W 1/2 of 12, December 7, 1816.


*Land transaction from the BLM GLO:

BLM-GLO

Deed 12-85 From Mrs. Bowers Of Cooperstown

New York, Land Records, 1630-1975, Livingston Deeds 1833-1835:

Image 47 

...Magarette M. W. [Wilson] Bowers of Cooperstown in the County of Otsego, New York, wife of John M. Bowers of the same place...

Quit Claim 

$1.00

To Zachariah Spencer

14 September 1833

Of Livonia, Livingston, New York

Part of Lot #88 in Town of Conesus

Also mentioned: Matthew McNinch; Henry Brown (Otsego Co.)

"...At the same time the debutante daughter, Margaretta Wilson, became a favorite with Mrs. Washington, who distinguished her with courtesies rarely shown to persons of her age. A contemporary letter describes her appearance at a drawing room given by the President and Mrs. Washington: 'Miss Wilson looked beautifully last night.'" 

[Source - Story of Cooperstown]

Naples In 1892

Source

Naples is now part of Collier County.

General Washington's Deed

Source

It Happened In New York City

On this [New York City] site in Federal Hall, April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath as the first President.

Source

Fort Necessity In 1754

Source

See Beginning The National Road and The National Pike or Old Cumberland Road Signs [also on the map].

Surveying In The Hornet's Nest

Savannah, Georgia, On The Waterfront

"...eastward to the Savannah."


The Hornet's Nest, a novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas...".


Also see Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest.

Map Of The Farms Of Mount Vernon

From the Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains, by George Washington:

Hand-drawn Map of Mount Vernon

From the Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains, by George Washington:

A President In Erie County

In the New York, Land Records, Erie Deed index-grantee 1808-1859 vol 1, (more Millard Fillmore [Image 719]) that indicated he was a grantee in Deed 46-96.

The Buffalo History organization has a guide to the Millard Fillmore papers.

George Washington, Surveyor

From the Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains, by George Washington:

"THIS journal of George Washington...with literal exactness was begun...when he was but one month over sixteen years of age. It is his own daily record of observations during his first remunerated employment. His proficiency as a surveyor and his fortitude in encountering the hardships of the forest in this expedition were considering his age truly remarkable."

George Washington's Two-Foot Gunter

Source

Two Feet, Two Folds, Boxwood Slide Rule, Gunter's

His [George Washington's] expense accounts show that on September 20, 1747, he buys himself a two-foot Gunter for 1/8. This was probably the common flat drawing scale or rule, usually an inch and a half broad, divided and ruled to various measures relating to surveying, navigation, trigonometry, etc., used chiefly by surveyors. From the Magazine Of American History....

Millard Fillmore In Aurora

A name included in the New York, Land Records, Erie Deed index-grantee 1808-1859, was Millard Fillmore [Fillmore, Millard  Deed 10-388 (Image 718)] and Deed 10-389 and probably others].

Erie County, New York, Deeds

Asa Warren and Wife, Martha of Eden

To

Millard Fillmore, of Aurora

10-389 (Image 224)

2 August 1824

Lot #24, Town Of Aurora, Erie County, New York

...beginning at the southwest corner of a piece of land conveyed by William Warren and Sally his wife to Calvin Fillmore and now in the occupation or possession of Joseph Howard Junior, thence west...
Witness: Obed Warren

The Fillmore Genealogy here (also source of the chronology below):