Grant To The Guides and Pioneers
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Messick and Edward Ryer, in severally and unto each of them and unto each and every one
of their several and respective Heirs and Assigns several lots or plantations of Land
comprehended within a tract of land situate lying and being in the Parish of Queensbury
in York County and abutted and bounded as follows to wit, beginning on the Westerly bank
or shore of Madam Keswick River at a maple tree marked GP being the lower bounds of
lot number eight-four in the Grant to the late Regiment of New York Volunteers thence
running by the magnetic needle along the lower or southeasterly line of the said lot
South forty-five degrees west two hundred and nineteen chains of four poles each,
thence South sixty degrees East fifty three chains and thirty-five links or until
it meets the upper or northerly line of lot number five in this tract thence along
said line South forty-five degrees West thirty chains, then South sixty degrees East
twenty-one chains and fifteen links or until it meets the Southerly line of the said
lot number five, thence North forty five degrees East thirty chains, thence South
sixty degrees East forty three chains and forty links or until it meets the lower
or southerly line of lot number nine in this tract. Thence South two degrees and
thirty minutes west two hundred and sixty two chains or until it meet the
southeasterly line of lot number twenty six in this tract at a marked maple
and fir sapling, Thence South forty five degrees East ten chains or to a beech
stake thence South forty five degrees West eighty chains and fifty links…