Kith and kin . d bounded by a survey made by John Mauzy beginning at aCorner Gum by the Creek side opp. one Richards 15w 10 polesto corner Red Oak on a piney hillside: thence South 756st 216poles to Corner Red Oak by the sd Creek, and thence down itsseveral courses to the beginning: contains 115 A. Royal minesexcepted, and 1-3 parte of all lead, copper, tin, coal, iron and ironore that shall be found. Rent to be paid the Feast of St. Michaelthe Archangel: rent i shilling silver money for every 50 acresfor 2 years, and to be returned at end of 2 years if rentes areunpaid. Sept. 7, 1791. Beverle
Kith and kin . d bounded by a survey made by John Mauzy beginning at aCorner Gum by the Creek side opp. one Richards 15w 10 polesto corner Red Oak on a piney hillside: thence South 756st 216poles to Corner Red Oak by the sd Creek, and thence down itsseveral courses to the beginning: contains 115 A. Royal minesexcepted, and 1-3 parte of all lead, copper, tin, coal, iron and ironore that shall be found. Rent to be paid the Feast of St. Michaelthe Archangel: rent i shilling silver money for every 50 acresfor 2 years, and to be returned at end of 2 years if rentes areunpaid. Sept. 7, 1791. Beverley Randolph, Gov. of the Commonwealthof Va. to Samuel Kennedy, Gent, in Berkeley Co. 126 A. for 15sh. sterling surveyed July 8, 1779, on drains (slopes) of BackCreek. This is evidently adjoining the land bought Oct. 6, 1766, andI am told by one who knows every foot of that part of Berkeleydescribes the situation of Prospect. i II ^ Oh SI , - H « =3 E 03 2 • S OJ c « Q = -« >>—w t. a^-t^ ^- g -g. .XI > & S^:^ OH g egg ^ c c^jg >>c5 u g g .3 03 — So -6 = s H^ cH 1 -li -o OS _cW o -g >. o3 oS >Q ~ Ooc Pj 22 S « ?o a>S C c3 — C-J S ^i-i S — c J3 ?^ O g 1 ~J K ;§ s 1^ H -l Jo &g o g-g |l f2| .s — >. S s S -I - . c ^?=o mH 3>>? 1^ ;^5 -?lis Ofl THE FLOYD LINE It can hardly be called a line, except as it runs through herdescendants from Margaret, wife of Col. James Reed. For it isa short and tragic story. Her father had settled and built a homefor his wife and five children; James, the oldest, was twelve,and Margaret seven when in the blackness of a dark night, theterrible war-whoop was heard. She remembered her father put-ting her on a horse behind her brother, James, telling them toride for their lives, as he gave the horse a cut with his turned back to get his wife and the other children. Alas!too late. Every one was massacred by the Indians. Except as she appears in the Record of Deeds in York Co., Pa.,we
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