Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /

A supplement to an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" : Whereas it is found to be inconvenient to execute that part of the land ordinance passed May 20th, 1785, which directs that certain proportions of lands be allotted to the several states, to be sold by the loan officers in each state ...

Observations on the North-American land-company, lately instituted in Philadelphia : containing an illustration of the object of the company's plan, the articles of association, with a succinct account of the states wherein their lands lie: to which are added, remarks on American lands in general, more particularly the pine-lands of the southern and western states, in two letters from Robert G. Harper ... to a gentleman in Philadelphia.

Fruit farmer, his wife and son. Placer County, California. He has owned his eighty acre farm for about thirty-four years. "It's pretty but what's it good for? The trees aren't worth the land they stand on," he says. Has Federal Land Bank loan which he will probably not be able to pay and expects to lose his farm soon

Picking onions in a seven-hundred acre field. Rice County, Minnesota

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, esquires, and their associates ; for a grant of lands on the River Ohio, in North America ; for the purpose of erecting a new government ; with observations and remarks

Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /

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Manuscript land ownership survey map of western portion of Edgewood, Harford County, Md.
Shows real-property lines, measurements, orientations, acreages, tract names, and names of landowners.
Gift; Kurt J. Kuhn; Aug. 2011.
Pen-and-ink (india ink) on tracing linen.
Landowners' names written in more than 1 hand.
Condition imperfect: Greatly use-worn, fold-lined, widely soiled, stained in small areas, torn at edges, torn at fold lines.
Includes notes.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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01/01/1915

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Contributors

Harford County (Md.). County Surveyor.

Somerville, W. E.

Onion, Thomas B.

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /

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Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /

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