![[WASHINGTON, George.] Autograph manuscript, plat survey of Washington’s birthplace, the Wakefield estate on Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1727. Drawn in pen, ink and watercolor, and signed by surveyor John Warner, 30 November 1727. 1 page, folio 16 5/8 x 12 ¾in. Worn and repaired at folds and edges (partly silked), paper losses costing a few words and affecting the lines of the drawing.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_12436_0301_000(washington_george_autograph_manuscript_plat_survey_of_washingtons_birt055836).jpg?w=1)
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[WASHINGTON, George.] Autograph manuscript, plat survey of Washington’s birthplace, the Wakefield estate on Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1727. Drawn in pen, ink and watercolor, and signed by surveyor John Warner, 30 November 1727. 1 page, folio 16 5/8 x 12 ¾in. Worn and repaired at folds and edges (partly silked), paper losses costing a few words and affecting the lines of the drawing.
A SURVEY OF WASHINGTON’S BIRTHPLACE, executed five years before he was born. The text at top left explains this is “A survey of a patent granted unto Tobias Butler for 720 acres, dated August 30, 1697, and by said Butler assigned to Daniel Field, September 28, 1697, lying in ye Parish of Washington and County of Westmoreland…” Washington’s father inherited this land from Tobias Butler and it was here, at Henry Washington’s Wakefield Estate, that Washington would be born in February 1732.
A SURVEY OF WASHINGTON’S BIRTHPLACE, executed five years before he was born. The text at top left explains this is “A survey of a patent granted unto Tobias Butler for 720 acres, dated August 30, 1697, and by said Butler assigned to Daniel Field, September 28, 1697, lying in ye Parish of Washington and County of Westmoreland…” Washington’s father inherited this land from Tobias Butler and it was here, at Henry Washington’s Wakefield Estate, that Washington would be born in February 1732.