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help deciphering vegetation description
« on: Tuesday 04 October 05 03:42 BST (UK) »
The original survey notes and plat maps (about 1830-60) for the state of Wisconsin are available on the Web.  The surveyors made note of the vegetation and soil as they ran their transects, and so it is possible to get some idea of what the landscape was like when the ancestors first settled there.  For the most part the hand writing is pretty good but, I am having trouble with the description of gg grandfather's land.  I read this as:

"Surface rolling soil 3º rate, timber Black White and Bur[r] Oak there is a house and 40 acres Huh on the SE quarter section 6"

Can anyone make out what that Huh is?

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Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:01 BST (UK) »




Could it be "unploughed " "unplowed" or something similar ?!!

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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:20 BST (UK) »
looks like 'something wood' to me. With wood?
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:21 BST (UK) »
looks like 'something wood' to me. With wood?
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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:24 BST (UK) »
I make "improved" - i.e. maybe that the soil has been "improved" to make it ready for cultivation.
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CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
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LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER - lightermen
MAXWELL - lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot.borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Co.Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:28 BST (UK) »
I agree, it's "improved".  Could the "Burr" Oak possibly be "Brn" as in brown?  Not an oak expert, so dunno!  Grin

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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 04:51 BST (UK) »
I agree, I think he's written improvd, with the e being implied.

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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 05:31 BST (UK) »
It looks like "improved" to me.

"Improved" is a word that frequently appears in old descriptions of farms in North America. It means land that has been ploughed or has been cleared of trees, bushes, etc. , ready for ploughing.

The other word is "burr oak", a fairly common tree in the
Wisconsin area.

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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 07:19 BST (UK) »
It is "bur oak", a type of oak tree, also spelled "burr":

http://www.naturehills.com/new/product/productdetails.aspx?proname=Bur+Oak&ovmkt=6TL4TEQ1FFTRVQI52E5G63E95O

Yes, Carmela, that's the kind of "improving" I meant.  Not sure if that usage is current in Britain or not.
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ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot, Westminster Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea & NL
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER - lightermen
MAXWELL - lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot.borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Co.Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol, London
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Re: help deciphering vegetation description
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 04 October 05 13:37 BST (UK) »
Thanks, all.  "Improved" was my guess, too, but I wanted some other opinions.  There isn't much doubt about "burr oak," which is common enough in the area.

If anyone else has family in Wisconsin, the notes and plat maps can be found at:  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/

And if you are so fortunate as to have ancestors in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, the very nicely done 1889 county plat maps can be found at:  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=header&id=WI.FootePlat
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Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr
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