Survey 183 of Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series

Plat and description of the survey of a lot, being Block number twenty four, 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 third 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 three hundred and sixty feet front by three hundred and sixty feet deep confirmed to Jacques Guibourd'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 fifteenth day 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 northern edge of Third street with the western edge of Church street, the south-east corner of this lot and Block.

Thence north fourteen degrees and forty five minutes west along the eastern boundary of this lot and the western edge of Church street, at three hundred and eighty nine feet and two inches a lime stone at the intersection of the southern edge of Fourth street with this line, the north-east corner of this lot and block.

Thence south seventy seven degrees and thirty minutes west along the northern boundary of this lot and the southern edge of Fourth street, at three hundred and ninety five feet and three inches a lime stone at the intersection of the eastern edge of Grave Yard street with this line, the north-west corner of this lot and block.

Then south fifteen degrees and twenty five minutes east along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern edge of Grave Yard street, at three hundred and ninety seven feet and six inches a lime stone at the intersection of the northern edge of Third street with this line, the south-west corner of this lot and block.

Thence north seventy six degrees and twenty five minutes east along the southern boundary of this lot and the northern edge of Third street, at three hundred and eighty nine feet and six inches the beginning corner.

Surveyor's Office, St. Louis  27th November 1845

The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and eighty three of Ste. Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 300 & 301 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:
Third Street is now Merchant Street
Fourth Street is now Jefferson Street
Church Street is now North Fourth Street
Grave Yard Street is now North Fifth Street

(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file Y0820105.pdf)

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transcribed by Steven E. Weible