Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

Occasionally I run across a patent that just amazes me, such is the case here. I’m investing myself in a new map, calling it Southside Virginia (I’ll drag it out later when I get further along). My regular readers and occasional commenters know I am intrigued by Indian Traders, I put these guys as precursors to what Hollywood would latch onto and term the “Wild West” and “Cowboys and Indians”… the stuff that as a kid, I reveled in. I think that actors such as John Wayne, directors such as John Ford and Sam Peckinpah would have read of and studied the characters I am running across in my research… but that is my personal interest.

https://www.wfaa.com/video/entertainment/movies/mel-gibson-talks-about-taking-on-the-role-of-benjamin-martin-in-the-patriot-2000/287-87339356-74f2-45e3-bf1f-310658bd3f28

I stand in awe at the accuracy of the surveyors in 1722 who accomplished this patent. Note that the County Line is not only where it “should” be… it is precisely where it should be. This base map is from 1910 or so and I give a hat tip to the good folks at USGS for maintaining and making available these old historic maps. This is the reason for my motto of this blog” “meant what they said, said what they meant”… as I was putting the pieces together to create this graphic, I kept scratching my head and thinking this makes no sense and cannot possibly work. But I just let it play out and it did work… I have learned not to doubt the old boys.

…the nitty gritty details below…click on the blue filename under the graphic for a better view