calling Spock…I need a logician…
I’ve tracked this patent through 5 deeds spanning over 40 years…looking for a clue. It seems no one had a problem with this, except me evidently. I cannot draw even an approximation because it makes no sense. How can you go down one creek to the mouth of another creek and then take the second creek back to where it began? What am I missing?
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an Update…
another Update…
Somehow or another, a mapping crime has been committed… In my graphic above, when John Steptoe gets the original property in 1777 we have a simple puzzle to solve. The deed description clearly says: “N 40 E 170…continues 80 to Beach Swamp” I have never been able to depict that original Patent on my map and that fact is driving me nuts.
A commenter has obviously been consulting Google Maps… he has added Barnhill Road into the puzzle and I can only agree with him.
Marc – the way I read it, this plat could be the interfluve of Beech and Short. Begins NE side of Short then crosses the interfluve to SS of Beech. Your first markup of it, best resembles imo. Could the 170 poles cross somewhere along Barnhill Road? ~Mike
eyesolus
June 28, 2025 at 7:10 am
Well Mike, first off, I take my hat off to ANYONE who uses the word “interfluve” in a sentence and said sentence actually makes sense.
That torturous deed has become so unmanageable that if I attempt to show it on a map it just becomes unreadable.
Not only that… but another mapper- David Ralls (Administrator of the Ralls and Jernigan DNA Projects) has entered this conundrum and is adding a couple of smaller deeds to this pile of spaghetti.
I can only, at this point, add an Update to the post and hope for a rational comment to stop the madness.
But to answer your question, yes…I think the answer I am looking for is when the deed description crosses Barnhill Road.
anderson1951
July 5, 2025 at 12:39 am