Description Plans of Alexander Cameron and Anthony Smith Land, Eight Mile Brook

Front:

“Plans of Alexander Cameron and Anthony Smith Land”

Inside:

First survey map contains the names James Cameron, John Reed, James McWilliams, Daniel Cameron, D. Maxwell, Neil McPherson, William Ingram, Dunbar, Alexander Cameron, Hugh Cameron, and John Cameron. Physical features included are the road from Six Mile Brook and Eight Mile Brook to Truro, Road from Pictou to Truro, the old Post Road, and a branch of the Eight Mile Brook.

The second survey map outlines the acreage. Underneath it reads:

“Beginning of the north west corner of Alexander Grays land, there S47° W15 ch to a Birch tree thence S47° E33ch to a stake and stones thence N47° E15ch to a spruce thence N47° W33 ch 75 links to the place of beginning. 50 acres.

Deed Anthony Smith to Sidney Smith”

Alternate Details

Part of the MacLeod Papers Collection containing the files of Ebenezer McLeod of West River, a Hector descendant and surveyor, and his son Daniel. The papers, which are from the 19th and 20th centuries, were saved by Ebenezer’s great-great-grandson Medford MacLeod, also of West River, NS.

File Location

MacLeod Papers Folder, Digital


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