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Library of Congress, American Treasurers Exhibit

Madden, John Madden; document of surveyed land near Dry Marsh, Frederick County, Virginia -- surveyed and signed by George Washington, Esq.

Trained as a surveyor at Mount Vernon, George Washington began work as a surveyor's assistant in 1748 when he was just sixteen-years-old. Because the neighboring plantation of Belvoir was owned by a member of the Fairfax family, in 1749 Washington was named one of the surveyors of Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Proprietary of five million acres between the Potomac and Rappahanock Rivers in Virginia. During his three years in service as one of the proprietor's surveyors, Washington prepared this survey of two hundred acres in Frederick County, Virginia, for John Madden.

American Treasures Exhibition
Library of Congress
Holograph manuscript survey, Mar 22 1750
Manuscript Division, Acquired by purchase in 1998 with funds from the Madison Council (109B.4)
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The American Treasures of the Library of Congress exhibition in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.
(closed August 2007)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr110.html