Standard atlas of Allen County, Indiana : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county ..patrons directory, reference business directory ... . METES AND BOUNDS (I?v t P to the time of the Revolutionary War, or until about the beginning of the present century, land, when parcelled out, andI/l sold or granted, was described by Metes and Bounds, and that system is still in existence in the following States, or inH_JL those portions of them which had been sold or granted when the present plan of surveys was adopted, viz.: New York,Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Standard atlas of Allen County, Indiana : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county ..patrons directory, reference business directory ... . METES AND BOUNDS (I?v t P to the time of the Revolutionary War, or until about the beginning of the present century, land, when parcelled out, andI/l sold or granted, was described by Metes and Bounds, and that system is still in existence in the following States, or inH_JL those portions of them which had been sold or granted when the present plan of surveys was adopted, viz.: New York,Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky. Texas,and the six New England States. To describe land by Metes and Bounds, is to have a known laud-mark for a place of beginning,and then follow a line according to the compass-needle (or magnetic bearing), or the course of a stream, or track of an ancient high-way. This plan has resulted in endless confusion and litigation, as land-marks decay and change, and it is a well-known fact thatthe compass-needle varies and does not always point due North. As an example of this plan of dividing lan
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