Survey 168 of Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series

Plat and description of the survey of a lot situated in block No. 15 of the town of Sainte Genevieve in township 38 North of the base line range 9 East of the 5th principal Meridian in the State of Missouri, surveyed on the 24th day of October in the year 1840 by Joseph C. Brown deputy Surveyor under instructions from the Surveyor of the public lands in the States of Illinois and Missouri, dated the 3rd day of September 1840. The said lot was claimed by Nicholas Roussin's legal representatives as being about three fourths of an arpent front by about one arpent deep and the boundaries and extent thereof proven before the recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri on the 26th day of October 1825 under the act of Congress approved the 26th of May 1824, entitled an act supplementary to an act passed on the 13th day of June 1812, entitled an act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the Territory of Missouri.

Description

Begin at the NW corner of the lot being the NW corner of block No. 15 at the NW corner of a lime Stone there set; thence S8°E along the eastern edge of Court Street, the western boundary of this lot, 187 feet 5 inches, set a lime Stone at the eastern edge of Court Street for the SW corner of this lot and NW corner of a vacant lot; thence N78°20'E along the SE boundary of this lot and NW boundary of a vacant lot, 254 feet 3 inches to the place of SE corner of this lot and NE corner of a vacant lot on the SW boundary line of the lot of Francois Lalumendiere's legal representatives, in a stable where I cannot set a corner; thence N8 3/4°W along the SW boundary line of said Lalumendiere's lot, the NE boundary in part of this lot, 12 feet 6 inches, the NW corner of the lot of said Lalumendiere's legal representatives, the NW corner of a post at the NW corner of a stable; thence N10 1/4°W along the NE boundary of this lot, the SW boundary of Parfait Dufour's lot, 188 feet 7 inches to the NE corner of this lot and NW corner of Parfait Dufour's lot at the SE edge of 3rd Street at the curb stones set across the sidewalk; thence S75°48'W along the S.E. edge of 3rd Street, the NW boundary of this lot, 248 feet 11 inches to the beginning.

(Brown's surveys of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon, pages 341-342,
Missouri State Land Survey microfiche location: 724/0479A2)


Transcriber's note:
Court Street is now 3rd Street
3rd Street is now Merchant Street


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transcribed by Steven E. Weible