Bryan,
Regarding the west property boundary of the college land, try this.
Start at the center of of College avenue, and travel along the border of Golf House Road and the neighboring property to the east, heading S 24 degrees 06 min. E for 381.11 feet. A surveyor stone was at this location. Then, on the same heading (S 24 degrees 06 min. E) travel 602.37 ft. This was the southwest corner of the college property.
Hope this helps.
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You guys are a bunch of city slickers.
A “forty” is a rural term of art used to connote a common division of property. Land is divided into “Sections” or square miles, 640 acres, with the borders running exactly north-south and east-west. Sections are divided into “Quarters” of 160 acres each, and Quarters are often divided in half or in quarter, and a half Quarter is called an “eighty” and a quarter Quarter is called a “forty.” You can tell how many of these units a particular landowner has by how he describes them. So if TEPaul has a “lower forty” (also called a “south forty”) he must necessarily also have an upper forty (or “north forty.”) So he has an eighty. Had he only forty acres, it would be called the forty. Had he a full Quarter, he would have to call this forty something like the southwest forty, because he would have two lower forties, or a lower eighty. A “forty” is also an urban and campus term of art used to connote a 40 oz. bottle of beer, oftentimes a malt liquor and usually none too expensive. Not sure to which TEPaul is referring.
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TEPaul, above you wrote:
"I have no idea how this will all play out but I believe this is the way to do it. In the process we will also need to use JUST the facts from Merions deeds and Merion's recording of all the events from June 1910 until July of 1911. Speculation in this process should be immediately thrown out!"
Yet in your post you ask us to agree to a number of things that are pure speculation on your part.
To keep us on track, I've edited out the speculation, and this is the fact you have listed thus far:
[According to Tolhurt's book, in 1950 Francis wrote:]
"The land now covered by fine homes along Golf House Road was exchanged for land about 130 yards wide by 190 yards long---the present location of the 15th green and 16th tee."
As for the rest, it is all either misleading, irrelevant, of supposition.
For example, while I agree that he did not call the area a triangle, I do not agree that he meant it was rectangular.
I do not agree that he was not specific when he described the land merion received. He provides approximate dimensions and what was built on the land. While he doesn't specify the exact shape, he is otherwise very specific, and there just happens to be a piece of land that matches his description, thus confirming that this is the land to which he was referring.
In other words, the lack of specificity as to the exact shape is no reason to assume that Francis was not being specific as to the rest of his description.