Thanks for the information on Costner or Cortner. However, based on information in the Guilford County Historical Map prepared by Fred Hughes this property does not appear to be in Kimeville. The land purchased by George Cortner in 1770 from Thomas Low was actually in Low's Town. Low had purchased property from McCulloh on "The Trading Path" in Orange County in 1760 before Guilford County was formed. In 1769 he recorded a plot for a town on this tract. In 1770 Low sold at least 17 lots from this town, 3/4 acres each. George Cortner purchased 3 of these lots or 2.25 ac. Kimesville is about 15,000 feet to the South South East. -----Original Message----- From: Paul B. Phelps [mailto:pbphelps@cpcug.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:38 AM To: BrickChurchNC-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRICKCHNC] Re: Kime & Reitzel acreage I think that Kimesville is a very good guess, but I can add only the following detail to the discussion: In Jul 1770, George COSTNER [sic] bought three lots totalling 2.25 ac in a town laid out by Thomas Lowe on the waters of Stinking Quarter Creek. --- SOURCE: Orange County Deed Book 4, pp. 602-604 I have assumed that this was Kimesville, on the Alamance-Guilford border and very near the Brick Church. George CORTNER or CARTNER is usually styled "of Guilford." ----- Original Message ----- From: Harold Davey <hdavey@home.com> To: <BrickChurchNC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 12:42 PM Subject: Kime & Reitzel acreage > Bill, > > Here is what I have for the location of Phillip Kime's land: > > "Phillip bought 50 A. on Stinking Quarter, a creek that runs through > the SE corner of Guilford Co, more or less parallel to NC 62, and then > on into Almanace where it eventually runs into the Haw River, a little > south of Graham." > > Could you provided the text of the court documents and citation for > Phllip's and Adam Reitzel's land? > > Harold > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Bill wrote: > > I like the fit of the Kime and Reitzel acreage, as well as the Lake > Kimeville, in > the Hughes map to the current mapping information. It seems to show > that > Philip Kime and his adopted son Adam Reitzel bought up the acreage in > the > area of Kimeville to build a milldam and pond. I think this is great > historic information. It can only come about from these kinds of > studies. > At the same time I am unhappy that I can not find better information > about > the exact geographic location of Philip and Adam's property than the > very > approximate locations provided by the large dark rectangle shown for > Philip > Kime property and for Adam Reitzel property. The court documents for > these > properties do not provide precise geographic locations. They provide > approximate locations related to some other property markers such as a > > cherry tree or a poplar tree etc. Are there more precise descriptions > of > the property locations? Any help you can give will be greatly > appreciated > and when absorbed the documented information will be immediately > shared > with anyone interested. > ==== BrickChurchNC Mailing List ==== List Administrator - Larry Noah larmil-1@att.net List Web Site - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/BrickCH/