The Courses of y^e Fork from Lot 14^{th} Down to y^e Mannor Line Beginning at 2 Red Bud Trees[36] & a Black Walnut on y^e West side y^e Fork & Running Down y^e Several Courses of y^e Fork N^o 9 E^t 19 po N^o 34 W^t 12 po N^o 15 E^t 22 po N^o 39 E^t 24 po N^o 12 E^t 23 po N^o 17 W^t 66 po N 6 E^t 42 po opposite to Henry Harris's house N^o 26 W^t 20 po West 32 op Phillip Moors house bears N^o 86 W^t N^o 23 W^t 48 po to a Blazed Tree[37] from here Phillip Moors house bears S^o 54 W^t N^o 6 W^t 33 po N^o 28 E^t 26 po N^o 73 E^t 28 po N^o 7 W^t 85 po to a blazed tree N^o 45 W^t 24 po. y^e Widow Wolfs[38] house bears S^o 52 W^t about 60 po. N^o 65 W^t 27 po S^o 84 W^t 18 po. S 50 W^t 14 po S. 19 W 20 po N^o 67 W^t 22 po. N^o 28 W^t 23 po. S^o 78 W^t 29 po N^o 71 W^t 25 po. N^o 39 W^t 19 po N^o 3 W^t 24 po. xx N^o 60 W^t 20 po N^o 39 W^t 20 po N^o 8 E^t 46 po to an Ash black Walnut & White Walnut in y^e Mannor Line on y^e s^d fork thence S^o 36 W^t along y^e Mannor Line 320 poles to 2 W: O & a R: O. [Footnote 36: The Red Bud or Judas tree.--A common tree that grows wild in the United States. In botany it is known as the "_Cercis Canadensis_," and often grows to the height of 30 feet or more. It flowers in April, clothing its limbs in a reddish-purple bloom for a week or ten days before its leaves appear, and from this circumstance it is popularly called red bud.] [Footnote 37: Blazed trees.--These are surveyors' marks made on trees to proclaim and identify certain routes or lines. The "blaze" is made by removing with an axe a strip of the outer bark of a tree or sapling, for about a foot in length and well into the inner bark. In the future growth of the tree a lighter color marks the cicatrix which rarely ever wholly disappears. Surveyors, to distinguish corner trees in a survey, not only blaze the sides of the tree in the direction their lines run but cut three small notches through the bark which will remain distinct during the life of the tree.] [Footnote 38: Widow Wolf.--There was a Fort Wolf on Stony creek a few miles south-west of Woodstock, erected by the Germans at an early period in the settlement of the valley; there is also a marsh or creek named Wolf's marsh, which empties into the Shenandoah about twelve miles above Ashby's Ferry. Possibly these were so called from the name of this widow's husband.] Tuesday 5^{th} We went out & did 4 Lots we were attended by y^e same Company of People y^t we had y^e day before April y^e 5^{th} 1748 Lot y^e 15^{th} Phillip Moore Beginning at Lot y^e 14^{th} on y^e Fork & Running down y^e Meanders to y^e first Blazed Tree a Black Oak on y^e Fork thence S^o 69 W^t 80 to y^e Edge of y^e Low G: 226 po to a Spanish Oak thence S^o 41 E^t 296 po. to a White Oak on a Mountain side thence N^o 40 E^t 38 po to 3 Red Oaks on a Mountain side near a Spring Branch this Lot very good