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I'm not familar with perches, How long is a perch? :huh:

A Perch is simply another name for a Rod. I believe there was another term for the same unit of measure. I think it was a Pole - or something similar.

Rich Mac wrote:

A Perch is simply another name for a Rod. I believe there was another term for the same unit of measure. I think it was a Pole - or something similar.

One of my deeds read like this; Follow a pasture wall in a SW direction to a row of cedar posts, then SSE to a blaze of trees, cross a stream to the pine grove and so on, just an old Yankee homestead going back hundreds of years.

BOSTON wrote:

Rich Mac wrote:

A Perch is simply another name for a Rod. I believe there was another term for the same unit of measure. I think it was a Pole - or something similar.

One of my deeds read like this; Follow a pasture wall in a SW direction to a row of cedar posts, then SSE to a blaze of trees, cross a stream to the pine grove and so on, just an old Yankee homestead going back hundreds of years.

That's pretty much how this deed read as well

It referenced the corner of building that was torn down 50 years earlier, and a "marker" in the middle of the "turnpike". The "turnpike" was the street in front of our house that had been a toll road 150 years ago.

I'm glad we never had any property disputes :blink:

Rich Mac wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

Rich Mac wrote:

A Perch is simply another name for a Rod. I believe there was another term for the same unit of measure. I think it was a Pole - or something similar.

One of my deeds read like this; Follow a pasture wall in a SW direction to a row of cedar posts, then SSE to a blaze of trees, cross a stream to the pine grove and so on, just an old Yankee homestead going back hundreds of years.

That's pretty much how this deed read as well

It referenced the corner of building that was torn down 50 years earlier, and a "marker" in the middle of the "turnpike". The "turnpike" was the street in front of our house that had been a toll road 150 years ago.

I'm glad we never had any property disputes :blink:

So not knowing what was where, I had the land surveyed, turns out that one of my buildings was several feet onto property I did not own, fortunetly the land was owned by the town, they were'nt aware of the situation. so I made an offer to buy the land, which they accepted. Moral of the story is that sometimes those old deeds are not all that accurate.