Survey 176 of Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series

Plat and description of the survey of a lot in Block number eighteen of the Town of Sainte Genevieve in Township thirty eight, north of the base line, Range nine, east of fifth principal Meridian in the State of Missouri, executed on the nineteenth day 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 two arpens deep confirmed to the Inhabitants of Sainte Genevieve 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 seventh of October eighteen hundred and twenty five, under 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 northern edge of second street with the western edge of Court street, the south-east corner of this lot and of Block number eighteen.

Thence north eight degrees west along the eastern boundary of this lot and the western edge of Court street, at three hundred and twelve feet and eleven inches a lime stone at the intersection of the southern edge of Third street with this line, the north-east corner of this lot and of the block.

Thence South seventy six degrees and twenty five minutes west along the northern boundary of this lot and the southern edge of Third street, at two hundred and two feet and seven inches a lime stone, the north-west corner of this lot and the north-east corner of a lot of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Sainte Genevieve, survey numbered one hundred and seventy five.

Thence south twelve degrees east along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern boundary of the lot of the Roman Catholic Congregation, at two hundred and eighty one feet and nine inches a lime stone on the northern edge of Second street, the south-west corner of this lot and the south-east corner of the lot of the Roman Catholic Congregation.

Thence north eighty six degrees east along the southern boundary of this lot and the northern edge of Second street, at one hundred and eighty one feet and eight inches the beginning corner.

Surveyor's Office
St. Louis  24th November 1845

The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and seventy six of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 292 & 293 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, St. Louis, Missouri


Transcriber's note:
Second Street is now Market Street
Third Street is now Merchant Street
Court Street is now Third Street

(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file Y0820098.pdf)
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transcribed by Steven E. Weible