John William Allen Property Discoveries II

Okay...so what have we learned from this deed?  First of all, Stephen was able to  put together a rough plat of the land by reading the description contained in the deed.  It was fairly easy for him to locate the actual property location by laying his plat of John Allen's land purchase over the current Greene County GIS parcel map of the same area.  I've inserted an image of Stephen's plat laid over the Greene County GIS parcel map below.  The John Allen land purchase is outlined in yellow in the image.

The subdivisions (double circles with number in the middle and thick blue line) numbered 2 and 13 combined, almost exactly match the Allen land described in the deed. He even added up the acreage of those parcels and it was pretty close to 166.5 - It was 142.  But some parcels had no info, in particular the large one bumping out on the northeast part. Add those in and we believe strongly that it is right at 166.5.  Note the location of Evergreen Church, just to the west (left) of the John Allen property.  John Allen and his wife, Mary C. Maiden, are buried in the cemetery across the road from this church.