WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Autograph manuscript, unsigned, 20 June 1771. A survey and plat drawing for a tract of land comprising 587 acres in the Ohio Valley.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Autograph manuscript, unsigned, 20 June 1771. A survey and plat drawing for a tract of land comprising 587 acres in the Ohio Valley.
One page, 320 x 202mm, drawing and annotation on verso in Washington’s hand; survey text in the hand of Col. William Crawford (slight age toning, neat repairs at folds, old catalogue description affixed to verso). Framed.
Washington draws a tract of land in the Ohio Valley, identifying two of its geographical features. On the verso he made the seven-line docket, or memorandum, as he calls it, listing the constituent parts of this tract: “Part of Posey’s, 187 acs.; Gutrick Crump, 200; Marsha Pratt, 50 acres…” The land is situated “upon the Ohio…above a creek called Capteniny [Captina], nearly opposite to another small creek, called Dipe Creek, and commonly caled [sic] and known by the name of round bottom…” It is likely that the tract was located opposite Moundsville, West Virginia, today known as Diles Bottom just opposite the mouth of Grave Creek. The manuscript text of the survey is in the hand of Col. William Crawford, a long-time friend of Washington, a fellow surveyor, and a comrade in arms who accompanied Washington on the historic, ill-fated Braddock expedition 16 years previously. Washington’s active years as a surveyor were long in the past, but he frequently dusted off his tools to delineate some of the extensive land purchases he made in the Ohio Valley, or even for his own Mount Vernon estate (he was doing those as late as 1799). A 1771 survey of Mount Vernon sold in these rooms 9 June 2002, lot 427, $130,700.
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WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Autograph manuscript, unsigned, 20 June 1771. A survey and plat drawing for a tract of land comprising 587 acres in the Ohio Valley.
One page, 320 x 202mm, drawing and annotation on verso in Washington’s hand; survey text in the hand of Col. William Crawford (slight age toning, neat repairs at folds, old catalogue description affixed to verso). Framed.
Washington draws a tract of land in the Ohio Valley, identifying two of its geographical features. On the verso he made the seven-line docket, or memorandum, as he calls it, listing the constituent parts of this tract: “Part of Posey’s, 187 acs.; Gutrick Crump, 200; Marsha Pratt, 50 acres…” The land is situated “upon the Ohio…above a creek called Capteniny [Captina], nearly opposite to another small creek, called Dipe Creek, and commonly caled [sic] and known by the name of round bottom…” It is likely that the tract was located opposite Moundsville, West Virginia, today known as Diles Bottom just opposite the mouth of Grave Creek. The manuscript text of the survey is in the hand of Col. William Crawford, a long-time friend of Washington, a fellow surveyor, and a comrade in arms who accompanied Washington on the historic, ill-fated Braddock expedition 16 years previously. Washington’s active years as a surveyor were long in the past, but he frequently dusted off his tools to delineate some of the extensive land purchases he made in the Ohio Valley, or even for his own Mount Vernon estate (he was doing those as late as 1799). A 1771 survey of Mount Vernon sold in these rooms 9 June 2002, lot 427, $130,700.
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