At a special meeting of the Board of Property the 25 September 1792.
Present
Daniel Broadhead, Esq'r, S.G. }
Francis Johnston, Esq'r., R.G. } of the Land Office
David Kennedy, Esq., Secre'y. }
Matthew Irwin, Esquire, Master of the Rolls
The Heirs of Jacob Alwine
v.
Abraham Fiskey & Fiskey
v.
Thomas Mercer
Mr. James Clark (who claims under the Heirs of Alwine) appeared before the Board and produced the Report of Michael Huffnagle, William Findley, and John Baird, Esq'rs, to whom these cases were referred by the consent of the parties at a meeting of the 7 February 1791, declaring that on hearing the Allegation of the parties and examining the lines they were of Opinion that the land contained within the Lines marked with red Ink, on a Plott now before the Board ought to be confirmed to James Clark and the said Report is confirmed and the Surveys of the parties are directed to be made and returned agreeable to the same Report.
Thomas Sutherland laid before the Board an instrument in writing under the Hand & seal of Owen Jones Executor to the last Will and Testament of Edward Jones, Dec'd who had a conveyance from Jesse Lukens for a Tract of Land called "Pleasant Garden" On Bushy Run in Buffaloe Township, North'd County which land in said instrument was declared to be claimed by said Sutherland, and that the same was by him recovered at Law and was also determined by the Board of Property in favor of Sutherland, and therefore the said Jones released all right and Title and did thereby agree that he said Sutherland ought to have a Patent notwithstanding the prohibition contained in the 11 Section of the Act passed the 3d April last, entitled "An Act for the sale of Vacant Lands in this Commonwealth" Whereupon a Patent is Ordered to be granted.
The Petition of Samuel Shade and Philip Kemp setting forth that a Patent issued the 13 March 1784, to Andrew Shade for 140 Acres of Land in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, and that on comparing the Lines and courses of the Patent with those already marked it appears not to answer in any degree, and therefore prayed for a Warrant of Resurvey to rectify the Errors agreeable to the said Petition, Whereupon Ordered that a Warrant issue for that purpose.
Source: Pennsylvania Archives, Series 3, Volume 2. "Minutes of the Board of Property and Other References to Lands in Pennsylvania. Including Proprietary (Old) Rights," Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1894, p. 39.
Submitted by: Nancy.
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