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A plan of certain lots at Hammonds Plains in the handwriting of Richard Morris, Surveyor General's clerk, but neither signed nor dated
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Hammond Plains
Road from Halifax to Saint Margarets Bay
Smiths Field
N 34º W 250 chains
S 60º W 160 chas
S 60 W 110 Chas
Christian Grave
No. 1
23 ch. 20 lk 27 chas 27 chas School Lot 27 chas 27 chs 27 ch
N 34º W
Adolphus [Veith]
Floyd and Webber


References
William Butler No. 1
[illegible] Butler 2
George Guinea 3
Isaac Butler 4
William Days 5
[Keaton?] Butler 6
Joseph Butler 7
[Cato?] Butler 8
George Butler 9
Abraham Butler 10
[illegible] Each Lot contains ten acres of land five Chains in front and twenty in length having the same Course as as described in the plan Lot No. 2 & 3. [No?] 5, 6, and 7 laid off in No. 2 Lots No 8, 9, and 10 laid off in No. 3, it is to [be?] understood that part of Lot No 8 is on No 2.


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 34

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