I meant to leave the NC-SC surveying tales alone but you people might convince the unknowing that these old chestnuts are true. There is nothing to the tales about tipsy surveyors accounting for the shape of the line where Lancaster and York counties meet Mecklenburg. It was because of the agreement that the Catawba Indian Land would all be inside South Carolina as was agreed by the Treaty of Augusta in 1763 that ended the French and Indian Wars. The Catawbas had fought with the English so were rewarded with a tract of land 15 miles square. Here is a portion of a paper that I once wrote on the topic: It was in 1772 that commissioners and surveyors from both North and South Carolina were appointed to run a revised line. South Carolina¹s head commissioner was William Moultrie, a man who, a few years later, would became a Revolutionary War hero. Fortunately for us, Moultrie kept a journal of each day¹s activities. His first entry was dated May 16, 1772 but the actual surveying did not begin until May 20. The survey was completed on June 2, 1772. Moultrie¹s party was made up of himself as head commissioner, William Thompson, two surveyors (Benjamin Farrar and James Cook), and chain carriers and blazors (men with axes who marked the trees). Moultrie wrote, ³They [North Carolina¹s surveyors] had tents and a wagon to carry their baggage; after the usual compliments and a glass or two of wine we proceeded immediately to business, by each party showing his commission and instructions to the other.² The two groups agreed that a surveyor from each province would attend the compass each day and that the chain would be carried alternately with two blazors from each side behind the surveyors. One commissioner from each province was to supervise at all times. On the 21st of May, at high noon beside the marked ³old corner tree², they took an observation. Nearly a hundred men, women and children of the Waxhaws community were present to see them off. That afternoon the party covered four and one-half miles. The Camden-Salisbury road, which had served as the previous boundary, was a winding road that followed old Indian paths. Moultrie remarked, ³We took the different courses along the Salisbury road, which made it very tedious.² On the second day the party ran into the old blazes from the laying off of the Catawba Indian boundary 8 years before and were able to cover 11 1/2 miles. The third day the party ran 8 miles and crossed Sugar Creek. The 4th day was Sunday so they rested. Moultrie¹s journal read, ³Sunday halted from business; some of us took a ride to Charlotte Town in Meclinburgh County. The Town has a tolerable Court house of wood about 80 by 40 feet, and a Gaol [jail], a store, a Tavern, and several other houses say 5 or 6, but very ordinary built of logs. . . .² Two days later Moultrie wrote that the parties ³came to the North and South branch of Catawba River, waited to take an observation, Latitude 35 - 8, from here we were to begin our western course. We took all our Compasses, set them together, and fixed up one to carry the Line throughwith. . . .²