"marjorie adams" <marjea@wildblue.net> wrote: >Where in Worcester was the tract  Truitt's Choice? > >Was it vacant until 1747 or part of another tract? > > plats.net has 250A patented 1746 by George Truitt  with certificate in the >name of Benjamin Aydelott , assigned to George Truitt . Then 1747 as patent ># 2559 under Benjamin Aydelott. > ____________ This TRUITTS CHOICE was located about 2 miles west and a bit south of Berlin. Its northern vertex was at about the intersection of Cedar Lane and Evans Road, and it extended south from there about 3/4 mile, roughly an equilateral triangle. What confuses you is that the Certificate 2559 indexing form (image 1 at plats.net) misconstrues the grantee as Benjamin Aydelotte. It was, in fact, patented on 23 May 1747 to George Truitt (son of Job), which is faintly recorded on image 2 in the legend at the lower right, and supported by the assignment made (at the top of the same image) from Aydelotte to Truitt on 16 Jul 1707, two days after the survey was made for Aydelotte. The party creating the file index sometime around 1900 just missed this. It’s one of many kinds of indexing errors in this series. There is still something very fishy here. I think the assignment is a phony, created in 1747 to expedite Truitt’s claim to rights. The reasoning is that this tract appears in the LW&T of Job Truitt. See MD Wills 20:060, made 10 Mar 1729/30, proved 01 Apr 1730. Job granted this, his dwelling plantation, to his son George. Aydelotte may, in fact, have assigned the tract in 1707 to Job, but the paperwork may have gone missing. The surveyor drawing up the certificate rights may have simply re-created the supposed assignment, but incorrectly specifying George - not his father - as the recipient. George may not even have been born in 1707, for all I know. Anyway, that’s what I think is the simple explanation. The rest, as they say, is history. John