The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, February 25, 1909 In the good old days, when the states were new and little was known of the great Mississippi Valley, deeds to real estate did not read as we are accustomed in this territory, where lines can be run straight with the world In fact the descriptions there now are what might be called quaint. Below we print an old deed of one of the KENDALLS, which was recently found among the family archives by N.W. KENDALL, of Washington Township. The names of AARON M. KENDALL and JOHN KENDALL must have been earlier members of the family tree than among the emigrants to Iowa as the editor of the Leader remembers AARON KENDALL, one of the pioneers of Lucas County, who served in the war of 1812, but who would have been too young in 1808 to have received real estate in fee simple, but we are not certain as to that. The AARON KENDALL, remembered by the writer was the grandfather of N.W. KENDALL, of Russell, and the great grandfather of Congressman N.E. KENDALL, of the sixth district. It was drawn, it is supposed, in Adams County, Ohio, although the deed does not state specifically, yet that was the home of the KENDALLS at that time. It is presumed they concluded that the buckeyes and dogwoods would be sufficient to locate the state by: The 22 day of June 1808. Surveyed for ARON M. KENDALL, 103 l/2 acres of land on the waters of the west fork of Bush Creek it being part of a survey of 1,000 acres entered and surveyed in the name of FRANCIS TAYLOR and a part of sayd survey sold and conveyed to JAMES KENDALL SR., of which this is a part and beginning for the same at a Buckeye White Walnut and a Ded Dogwood, S.W. corner to said JAMES KENDALL's survey running thence with JOHN KENDALL's line S. 67 deg E. 99 pole to a White Walnut and two Ironwoods in said line, thence N. 23 deg thence E. 90 pole to two dogwoods and a black gun, thence N. 67 deg W. 14 pole to a Red Bud and hycory tree; thence N. 23 deg E. 95 pole to two dogwoods and a sugar tree in the old line of the Original survey thence with said line N. 67 deg W. 41 pole to a sugar tree and two dogwoods N.W. corner to the original survey thence with A Nother of the old lines of the original survey S. 23 deg W. 185 pole to the Beginning. -- N. BEASLEY S.A.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert May 16, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net *I enjoyed the spelling of some of the words..