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Survey, Gersham Keyes, 1751 1 pages Box 37, Folder 1751.04.06

Land survey with 2 plat maps by George Washington for Gersham Keyes, detailing two tracts of land on Evitts Run in Frederick County, VA. One tract contained 109 acres and one 100 acres, which was part of a land parcel granted to Lawrence Washington, George Washington's half-brother. Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - Robert Worthington, Michael Sweim (chainmen -'C.C.') and William Davis (marker - 'Mr.'). The first two lines at the upper left, not in Washington's writing, describe conveyance 'by deeds from Mr. Lawrence Washington to Keyes' with an added date of August 14, 1751. Autograph document signed, 1 page.

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Survey, James Hamilton, 1749 Box 1, Folder 1749.11.02

George Washington drafted this survey for James Hamilton in 1749. Signed "Washington, SCC" (for Surveyor of Culpeper County), this survey details 350 acres on the border of Augusta County, Virginia, along the Cacapehon (Cacapon) or Lost River.

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Survey, notes and plot of grounds in Northeast part of the pasture at Mount Vernon Box 35, Folder ND2

Partial document of a plat of Mount Vernon, 'Old Plat of the Grounds in the NE part of the Pasture of Mount Vernon from the Summit of the Hills on which the Log'd Cabbins are.' Page one is the survey, page two includes surveying notes in Washington's hand.

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Survey of lands in Frederick County left to John Augustine Washington by Lawrence Washington, 1767 2 pages Box 33, Folder 1767.12.01

Autograph survey and plat signed "G. Washington." Docketed on verso by John Augustine Washington, "An Including survey of all the Lands left me in Frederick, by my brother Lawrence Washington, done by George Washington Esqr." A survey of four parcels of land in present-day Jefferson County, West Virginia.

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Survey, plat of Woodstock Manor, 1793 Box 36, Folder 1793.01.02

A plat and survey by Hezekiah Veatch, assistant Surveyor of Montgomery County, by request of Francis Deakins & Benjamin Jones, of Woodstock Manor, divided it into 2 equal tracts, correcting lines in a survey made in 1782 -- Signed statement by Deakins & Jones "By request of the President of the United States and Colo. Mercer we have divided Woodstock into two Lots of Equal Value as per the above plat & certificate". This land was conveyed to George Washington on 1 April 1793 by John Francis Mercer, his wife Sophia Sprigg Mercer, and by James Steuart and his wife Rebecca Sprigg Steuart in payment for a debt owed him by the estate of Mercers father, John Mercer.

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Survey plat, William Mullin, 1751 2 pages Box 1, Folder 1751.04.12

Partial land survey, plat map only, by George Washington for William Mullin concerning 247 acres on Mill Branch, a branch of the Cacapon River in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Docket indicates that this land was later granted to Thomas Hollowell. Autograph document, 2 pages.

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