Hi to H Fagley I just last week copied this from a site with George Washingtons paper, and it is the letter written to Michael Cresap by Geo. Washington. Perhaps this is the land you were looking for. I have some relatives who were with Michael Cresap and that is why I copied it. This is the site where I found this info: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field([email protected](gw280035)) Good luck, Delores Straight The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress George Washington to Michael Cresap, Account Book 2, September 26, 1773 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.--vol. 03 Mount Vernon, September 26, 1773. Sir: In my passage down the Ohio in the Fall of the year 1770, I made choice of a piece of Land, being the first bottom on the So. East side the river above Capteening, as also a little above a place where the effects of a hurricane appear among the Trees, and opposite to a Creek on the other side near the upper end of the bottom, call'd Pipe Creek. The next Spring, when Capt: Crawford went down the Ohio to survey, I desired sired him to run out this Land for me, which he accordingly did, and returned me the Plat of it, as you may see by the inclosed copy; intending as soon as a Patent could be obtained, to apply for one. The summer following, hearing that Doctor Brisco had taken possession of this bottom, (altho' inform'd of my claim to it) I wrote him a letter, of which the inclos'd is a copy. And within these few days I have heard (the truth of which I know not) that you, upon the Doctor's quitting of it, have also taken possession of it. If this information be true, I own I can conceive no reason why you or any other person should attempt to disturb me in my claim to this Land, as I have not, to my knowledge, injur'd or attempted to injure, any other man in his pretensions to Land in that country; it is a little hard, therefore upon me that I cannot be allowed to hold this bottom (which is but a small one) in peace and quietness, 'till a legal right can be obtained, which I always have been and still am ready to pay for, as soon as I know to what office to apply. I would feign hope that my information respecting your taking possession of this Land, is without foundation; as I should be sorry to enter into a litigation of this matter with you or any other Gentleman; but as I conceiv'd that I had as good a right to make choice of this bottom, as any other person has; as I am sure that I am the first that did so, and have had it survey'd so as to ascertain the bounds, upwards of two years ago, I am resolved not to relinquish my claim to it. But if you have made any Improvements thereon, not knowing of my claim, I will very readily pay you the full value thereof, being, etc. [Note 21: Pipe Creek, W. Va. It enters the Ohio River just below Moundsville, in Belmont County, and it is supposed to have derived its name from the pipe clay along its banks which the Indians used.]