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Jeff Nye@jeffreynye.bsky.social |
My dad worked as a surveyor for a while in the 1970s, and part of the job was updating metes and bounds deeds to coordinates. He remembered a deed that described a property line as: Start at the old oak tree on the Smith farm and "go west, three smokes by horseback."
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Jeff Nye
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So if you had a big smoke or a fast horse, you had a hell of a lot of land! He says he wished he'd kept a copy of the deed, but didn't think to at the time. I think they eventually closed it on from other legal descriptions.
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