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It
goes across the creek, and extends over the hill, taking in
Denny Brain's property to the north, cutting across Heath Road,
and down to Bedell.
Back to the
"star," northwest along Bedell, along the nursery,
back up to Finleyville Road.
Then across the street, down the road back through the
woods eventually to the top of the hill above Peter's Creek.
Then east along the top
of the hill above "vacant land," then northeast,
crossing Gill Hall, to the bend in the creek, back to the top of
the "star" where we started.
In walking around the
edges of the property, some of the same varieties of trees are
still there as are mentioned in marking off the original
survey... the Beech trees on Bedell Road, and the White Oak at
the corner of Bedell and Finleyville Road.
Certainly not the same tree, but as my father used to
say, "the seed doesn't fall far from the tree!"
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In 1797
Custard made the first subdivision of his property. He sold 53 acres to his daughter Susannah and her husband,
son-in-law Sampson Piersall, for 50 Pounds.
This is the nicest section of his property, with a spring
and a stream, and an inset into the hill behind Ridge Road.
It is
the piece which later became Huffman's, then Bedell's, later
Aber, Biesel, Greenwald and Haines.
It is the last piece which is still intact as a farm.
It is
the piece, which carried forward the name Custard's Delight.
It is
referenced in Joseph Parry's "The Lost County," as the
place for which Alvin "Sonny" Greenwald had an
Abstract drawn up in 1939.
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