Survey 146 of Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series

Plat and description of the survey of a lot in Block number 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 twenty third 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 by about two arpents," confirmed to John Baptiste Vallé senior 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 fifth 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 eastern edge of Gabori street with the northern edge of Second Street, the south west corner of this lot and of Block number four.

Thence north eighty degrees and forty minutes east, along the southern boundary of this lot and the northern edge of Second street, at four hundred and twenty five feet and two inches a lime stone at the intersection of the northern edge of Second Street with the western edge of Common field street, the south east corner of this lot and of the block.

Thence North seven degrees west along the eastern boundary of this lot and the western edge of Common Field street, at two hundred feet a lime stone, the north east corner of this lot, and the south east corner of the lot of Veuve Vital Beauvais, survey numbered one hundred and forty five.

Thence south seventy nine degrees and forty five minutes west, along the northern boundary of this lot, and the southern boundary of Veuve V. Beauvais' lot, at four hundred and twenty feet and two inches a lime stone on the eastern edge of Gabori street, the north west corner of this lot, and the south west corner of Veuve Vital Beauvais' lot.

Thence south five degrees and thirty five minutes east along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern edge of Gabori street, at one hundred and ninety two feet and ten inches the beginning corner.

Surveyor's Office, St. Louis  March 21st, 1845

The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and forty six of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 266 and 267 of the Book of Record of the said surveys in this Office.

Silas Reed
Surveyor of the public lands in the
   States of Illinois and Missouri

To F. R. Conway Esquire
U. S. Recorder of land titles
   St. Louis Mo.


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

(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file: Y0820073.pdf)

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transcribed by Steven E. Weible