Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Peters Plan - F17
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
info@vfthomas.com
(updated 11 June 2016)
65:388–389
Date: 12 December 1837
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Alexander Baring, Henry Baring, Joseph R. Ingersoll, and William Miller (representing the estate of William Bingham)
Grantee: Oliver Higgins
Description: 87 acres; lot #56 on Peters Plan
Beginning on the side line of Thomas Wasgatt's settler's lot, near the northwest corner bound of the same;
running N 45° W about 65 rods to a hemlock tree, the east corner bound of lot #50;
then S 45° W 200 rods to a spruce tree, the north corner bound of lot #57;
then S 45° E 70 rods to a spruce tree;
then N 45° E to the head line of said Thomas Wasgatt's lot [see note below];
then N 45° W to the corner bound of said Wasgatt's lot;
then N 45° E by said Wasgatt's lot to the bound first mentioned.
Note: These last three directions indicate that the northwest side of this lot and the northwest side of Thomas Wasgatt's lot were slightly offset from each other.
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