Survey 153 of Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series

Plat and description of the survey of a lot in Block number eight of the town of Sainte Genevieve, in Township thirty eight, north of the base line, Range nine, east of the fifth principal Meridian, in the State of Missouri, executed on the twenty fourth of October eighteen hundred and forty, by Jos. C. Brown, Deputy Surveyor, under instructions from the Surveyor of the public lands in the States of Illinois and Missouri, dated the third of September eighteen hundred and forty. It being the lot of "one arpent front by one arpent deep", confirmed to Veuve [veuve is the french word for widow] Bolduc's legal representatives by the act of Congress of the thirteenth of June eighteen hundred and twelve; the extent and boundaries whereof were proven before Theodore Hunt, United States Recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri, on the twenty second of October eighteen hundred and twenty five, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the twenty sixth of May eighteen hundred and twenty four, entitled: "an act supplementary to an act passed on the thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled: 'an act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the Territory of Missouri' ".

Description: Begin at a lime stone at the intersection of the western edge of Gabori street with the southern edge of Second street, the north-east corner of this lot and of Block number eight; it being also the north-east corner of the lot of Louis Bolduc's legal representatives, a survey included in this lot and numbered one hundred and fifty four.

Thence south eighty one degrees and fifteen minutes west along the northern boundary of this lot and the southern edge of Second street; at one hundred and eighty two feet and nine inches the north-east corner of a barn, which is the north-west corner of this lot, and the north-east corner of the lot of Jacques Courtois' legal representatives survey numbered one hundred and fifty five.

Thence south eight degrees and forty five minutes east along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern boundary of the lot of Jacques Courtois; at ninety one feet the southwest corner of the lot of Louis Bolduc's legal representatives; continue the same course, at one hundred and eighty six feet a cedar post, the south-west corner of this lot, and the south-east corner of the lot of Jacques Courtois on the northern boundary line of the lot of John Baptiste Pratte senior, survey numbered one hundred and fifty two.

Thence north eighty five degrees and fifteen minutes east along the southern boundary of this lot and the northern boundary of the lot of John Baptiste Pratte senior; at one hundred and seventy two feet and five inches the north-east corner of a stone wall on the western edge of Gabori street, which is the south-east corner of this lot, and the north-east corner of the lot of J. B. Pratte senior.

Thence north five degrees and thirty five minutes west along the eastern boundary of this lot and the western edge of Gabori street; at one hundred feet and four inches the south-east corner of the lot of Louis Bolduc's legal representatives; at one hundred and ninety nine feet the beginning corner.

Surveyor's Office
St. Louis  May 26th 1845

The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and fifty three of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 271 & 272 of the book of Record of the said surveys in this Office.

F. R. Conway
Surveyor of the public lands in the 
  States of Illinois and Missouri

To the United States Recorder
  of Land titles
    at St. Louis,
      Missouri


Transcriber's note:
Gabori Street is now South Main Street
Second Street is now Market Street

(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file Y0820079.pdf)
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transcribed by Steven E. Weible