The Award to William Barrett

1 ACRE equals A FURLONG (220 yards) x A CHAIN (22 yards) equals 4840 square yards equals 1 strip of a ridge and furrow field

 

1 ACRE equals 4 ROODS

1 ACRE equals 160 PERCHES

1 ROOD equals ¼ of an ACRE or 1210 square yards

1 ROOD equals 40 PERCHES

1 PERCH equals 30.25 square yards

                                                                                                                                                                                                         

WILLIAM BARRETT

In lieu of all his lands and Right of Common in and over the lands and a deduction for discharging his old inclosures from Tithes comprised in the allotment to THOMAS LOWNDES

A parcel of land situated in MATTHEWS FIELD containing 4 ACRES – 2 ROODS – 32 PERCHES including all roads and ways bounded on the EAST and SOUTH by lands allotted to WILLIAM COOKE and on the WEST by the HOMESTEAD of WILLIAM BARRETT and an old inclosure belonging to DAVID MORTIER on part of the NORTH by an allotment to DAVID MORTIER and on the remaining part of the NORTH by old inclosures belonging to WILLIAM FOSKETT and JOSEPH PAGE

The hedges, ditches and fences on one half of that line on the SOUTH side accounting from WEST END next to the allotment to WILLIAM COOKE shall be maintained by WILLIAM BARRETT