James Shanks' 1811 Plat Drawing

1. Joseph Brooks assignee of Philips 400 acre preemption [link.]
2. Joseph Brooks assignee of Holden, assignee of Beasley 400 acre settlement [link]
3. Joseph Brooks assignee of Holden, and eastwardly 500 acre preemption [link]
4. Joseph Brooks assignee of Holden, and westwardly 500 acre preemption [link]
5. Edward Williams 400 acre settlement [link]
6. Edward Williams 1000 acre preemption [link]
7. Robert Shanklin 400 acre settlement [link]
8. Robert Shanklin 932? acre preemption [link]
9. Robert Shanklin 68 acre preemption [link]
10. Joseph Brooks, assignee of George Clare 500 acre preemption [link]
11. Thomas Stansberry, assignee of Moses Merryman 600 acres [link]
12. Thomas Stansberry, assignee of Charles Williams 625 acres [link]
13. John Beckwith 365 acres part of Charles Williams 1000 acres [link]
14. Thomas Hardins 400 acres at Joseph Brashear's burned cabin [link]
15. Brook Beall 200 acres [link]
16. Robert Breckinridge assignee of 3000 acres [link]
17. Gabriel Jones 2500 acres [link]
18. Thomas Saunders 500 acres [link]
19. A dotted line is the division line between George Reed and Hornbeck heirs the part north of the dotted line claimed by Reed and his assignees. More information is available about this division between Reed and the Hornbecks on other pages.
20. And the old trace and Floyds fork, John Larue's 21,000 acres. [For more info on Larue's survey, follow this link.]
21. A dotted line is a run which runs down through Thomas Saunders 500 acres and Thomas Hardins 400 acres and is the eastwardly boundary of what Joseph Brooks purchased out of John Larue's 21,000 acres.

August the 22d, 1811. Pursuant to an order from the Bullitt Circuit Court to me directed, I went on the land in controversy wherein Joseph Brooks is compt against Hawkins and other Defts in Chancery and have laid off the same as in the plat hereunto annexed.

Top of Shanks' drawing, showing the locations from G to T.
U through X are on parts of the plat not shown here.

Explanation

1. The main Blue Lick.
2. The little Blue Lick.
3. John Dunne house at the gap of the knob.
4. Clars Station shown by Charles Whitaker.
5. Joseph Brooks spring and is the same alluded to in the depositions of William Pope, James Guthrie, Jacob Vanmeter, Thomas Philips, John Tuell, James Daugherty, John Philips, Meshick Carter, Benjamin Philips, Samuel Haycraft, David Standeford, James Persel, George Pomroy, James Stevenson, Adam Shepherd, Charles Whitaker, Squire Boone, James Patton, James Whitaker.
6. The tree shown by Squire Boone which is so singularly marked.
7. The place where Walker Daniel and George Kirtley were killed, shown by James Welsh, James McCawley and others.
8. The beginning corner of 3000 acres surveyed for Robert Breckinridge, assignee and upon John Edwards entry of 3000 acres ... two miles southwardly of the fish pools.
9. [Letter not used by Shanks.]
10. James Quartermas spring at the head of the fish pool branch.
11. A spring at the head of another branch of the Fish Pool creek.
12. The place where the Fish Pool branch sinks.
13. The Fish Pools alluded to in the before mentioned depositions.
14. Moore's Spring.
15. The fork of the Fish Pool creek.
16. The fork of the path alluded to in the deposition of William Pope, James Pursel and George Pomeroy.
17. The Indian grave shown by Squire Boone and Charles Whitaker.
18. The Beech Spring alluded to in the depositions of William Pope, John Jewell, Leavin Cooper and James McCawley.
19. A. Beech sapling shown by Squire Boone as the one alluded to in his deposition as hacked by Lee with his butcher knife.
20. The old crossing of Fern Creek, which was shown to me as such by Adam Shepherd and John Burks Senior in the suits of William Pope Junior and others against Stansberry and others, and again shown to me by Squire Boone and Charles Whitaker in the present suit.
21. Brashears Station, shown to me by Nicholas L. Brashear in the suit of Tilford and Gaither.
22. The old Buffalo crossing of Floyds Fork.
23. Coxes on Fromans old trace.
24. The road leading from Bairds Town to Louisville.

The penciled shade from Floyds fork extending westwardly past A. B. C. at the Blue Lick gap is the chain of knobs alluded to in the aforesaid depositions.

The crooked dotted line commencing at A. Extending thence Northwardly Brooks (alias Phelps, alias Stewarts) spring, the fish pools and to T. at the crossing of Fern Creek is the old trace alluded to in the aforesaid depositions and is the same shown to me by Adam Shepherd and John Burks in the suit of William Pope Junior and others against Stansberry and others, and again shown to me by Squire Boone and Charles Whitaker in the present suit.

Beginning at the old crossing of Fern Creek running thence S 15 W 44 poles, S 30 E 370 poles, S 40 E 14 poles, S 68 E 125 poles, passing the Beech Spring, thence South 146 poles to the Indian graves, S 25 E 66 poles to the fork of the path leading to the falls of the Ohio and Beargrass, S 15 W 160 poles, S 14 E 22 poles, S 6 W 22 poles, S 15 E 22 poles, South 34 poles crossing a branch of the fish pool creek near the fork, S 12 W 36 poles to Colonel Moores Spring, S 11 W 64 poles to the fish pools making in the whole 1125 poles meander measure.

From the fish pools S 6 W 10 poles, S 4 W 92 poles, South 102 poles, S 33 W 22 poles, S 7 W 170 poles, S 10 W 110 poles, S 1 W 100 poles, S 30 W 44 poles, to a large white oak marked R. B. and three Elms on the East side of a draine of Brooks Run and on the West side of of the old trace, this being the beginning corner of 3000 acres surveyed for Robert Breckinridge assignee and upon John Edwards 3000 acre entry, making in the whole 650 poles meander measure and 640 poles on a direct line from the fish pools.

From Breckinridges northern boundary, thence S 15 W 30 poles to where George Kirtley and Walker Daniel were killed, S 14 W 96 poles, S 2 W 41 poles, S 28 E 72 poles, S 24 W 22 poles, S 14 W 62 poles to Brooks Spring, thence S 18 W 78 poles, S 28 W 42 poles, S 11 W 16 poles, S 18 W 78 poles, South 80 poles to where Colonel Floyd was wounded, S 22 W 72 poles, S 30 W 30 poles to Breckinridge's southern boundary line, making in the whole 719 poles meander measure and 692,8 poles on a direct line.

From Breckinridges southern boundary, S 20 W 150 poles, (Clares Station then bearing N 67 W 25 poles), S 11 W 34 poles, S 20 E 16 poles, S 33 W 28 poles (crossing Clares Run at 2 poles), S 20 W 96 poles, S 66 W 10 poles, S 26 W 82 poles (at 10 poles crossed Rocky Run), S 20 W 94 poles, S 22 W 75 poles, S 59 W 38 poles, S 37 W 36 poles to the North bank of the Blue Lick run (crossing the SWly corner of John Larue's 21,000 acre survey at 20 poles), S 41 W 54 poles, S 15 W 58 poles,(at 42 poles crossing the little Blue Lick), South 20 poles to the main Blue Lick at the Blue Lick gap of the knobs where the trace leading from the falls of Ohio to Bullitts lick passes through, making in the whole 791 poles meander measure.