Hi Ruth: The original citation in Scharf's is for land of "Manuel Eyre" between St. George's Creek and Surrency's Gut. I looked up Manuel Eyre and found the following collection cited on the web at the Hagley Library (http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/), which is a wonderful research facility at the old DuPont black powder mills. Surrency's Gut may have been over-run by the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, or it may have even disappeared as the tidal waters changed over the years...I'll send a map from the current-day map book and you'll see what a maze the local waters are. You may also want to check with the Morris Library of the University of Delaware (www.lib.udel.edu/), they have an extensive map collection Fred Kelso "Author:Eyre, Manuel, 1777-1845. Title: Business papers, 1795-1847 (bulk 1800-1805). Description: 720 items. Notes: Manuel Eyre, a Philadelphia merchant of Quaker ancestry, was born in 1777. His father, Manuel Eyre, Sr., (1736-1805) was a shipwright in Kensington and a colonel in the Contintental Army. He obtained his training in the counting house of Henry Pratt and Abraham Kintzing and in 1803 joined with Charles Massey, Jr., (b. 1778) to form the mercantile firm of Eyre & Massey, a partnership that lasted until Eyre's death in 1845. The firm of Eyre & Massey owned over 20 vessels, ranging in size from ships to sloops, and traded around the world, mounting voyages to Europe, the Caribbean, South America, China, India and the Pacific Islands. Manuel Eyre also served on the Philadelphia City Council and was a founding director of the Schuylkill Navigation Company (1816) and the Second Bank of the United States (1816). After 1820 he gradually retired from active trading and devoted much of his time to agriculture. He owned two farms outside the city and three in Delaware. He was the founder of Delaware City, Del., at the mouth of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, buying the entire site in 1828, erecting public buildings and dividing it into lots. The records consist of seven lots of Manuel Eyre's business papers, spanning the years, 1795-1847. Accession 994 (part) consists of shipping papers (1801-1802) for the ships OLIVE BRANCH and CHARLESTON PACKET and the brigs ARISTIDES, FAME, and NANCY trading with La Rochelle, Havre, Charleston and the West Indies. They include accounts, cargo manifests, bills of lading, outfitter's bills and agreements with captains. Accession 1003 (part) includes additional shipping papers (1797-1815) for the ship OLIVE BRANCH, brigs ARISTIDES and NANCY, sloop PERSEVERANCE and schooner EUTAW trading primarily with Hamburg and the West Indies. These are also 20 letters (1796-1803), mostly from Troup & Brown at Port au Prince concerning trade with Haiti, Amsterdam, and Charleston and 6 items (1797-1806) re Eyre's property in Burlington, N.J. A separate group of 38 items contains accounts and inventories of the Kensington Lead Works, established in 1832 by Franklin Eyre, and correspondence from manager Thomas Janvier to Manuel Eyre. Accession 1063 (part) contains additional shipping papers, checks, bills of lading, and customs house lists of goods imported (1801-1823). Accession 1097 (part) comprises 43 items, including a manifest for the OLIVE BRANCH (1803), correspondence re orders, accounts payable, promissory notes, bank drafts, and bills of lading. There are two agreements to rent properties in Delaware City (1827) and Philadelphia (1832). Accession 1144 (part) consists of 5 items (1796-1835): a letter of captain William Brewster on coffee sold (1796), Eyre's accounts with the firm of Eyre & Massey (1806), a letter of Thomas Janvier introducing William Peterson, an invoice of William L, Hodge to Eyre (1835), and a freight list of the ASISTIDES bound for Charleston. Accession 1215 (part) consists of advertising circulars. Accession 1247 (part) consists of a stock certificate for 100 shares of the Peoples Steam Navigation Company(1833). No restrictions on use. Described in: John Beverley Riggs, A GUIDE TO MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS HISTORICAL LIBRARY, SUPPLEMENT CONTAINING ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEARS 1966 THROUGH 1975 (Greenville, Del.: Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, 1978). Unpublished finding aid available at the repository. Subjects include: Massey, Charles, b. 1778. Aristides (Brig). Charleston Packet (Ship). Eutaw (Schooner). Eyre & Massey. Fame (Brig). Kensington Lead Works (Philadelphia, Pa.). Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and Archives Department, 298 Buck Road East, Greenville, Del. 19807 http://www.rootsweb.com/~paschuyl/sch2.htm "