Mary Beechie wrote: > < snip ... > > > Strait Creek on Song ridge including a large spring and his own > improvement and bounded as followith to Wit beginning at a large > white oak and red oaks......................." It may be worthwhile to plot out the actual description of the land (beginning at a large white oak ...). If the description includes a boundary which is a creek or ridge, you may be able to recognize the same creek or ridge (or spring) today on a U.S.G.S. quadrangle map of the area ...