When I last wrote the post about platting Amos Gorrell’s land using DeedMapper (see link), I had found the piece he bought and then how he sold the land in three pieces. They fit together nicely.
We learned in the Metes and Bounds class how to place a USGS map into DeedMapper and then plat the land onto the map. I first went to the GIS webpage for Beaver County to see if I could figure out how the land might fit on a current map.
I knew that a boundary for each of the three pieces was on New Lisbon Road, and that his land straddled South Beaver and Ohio Townships. I used that to orientate the land. I also knew, they were not far from the Ohio border. I showed that portion of the map in the previous post.
The next step was to obtain the correct topo map for the area. It turned out that the portion of the west part of Beaver County was on the East Liverpool North Quadrangle that showed Ohio and portions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
I pulled the 7.5 Minute Series map into DeedMapper and found the same spot as I found on the GIS map of Beaver County. You can see the plat and how it fits along the New Lisbon Road.
I highly recommend taking the Metes and Bounds class from Jerry Smith the next time he offers it. I had taken it virtually a couple of years ago through SLIG (Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy) and this time at NGS GRIP, which was in person. It works both ways, as there is plenty of time to do practical problems and the instructors are available for assistance.
My next task is to transcribe and plat the land Amos’s sons
purchased in Ross County, Ohio.
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