Thanks for the info.

Do they have some surveyor's benchmarks at the corners now rather than a tree?

--- On Mon, 2/14/11, Mary E. Stewart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Mary E. Stewart <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Metes and Bounds
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 1:36 PM
> Virginia still uses metes and bounds
> and that is how my land is described in
> my deed.
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Joy Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have collected some of the old surveys for lands in
> Virginia. They were
> > done in the 1700's using metes and bounds. "N30W 100
> poles to a white oak
> > sapling, etc."
> >
> > What system does VA now use as a legal land
> description? Has VA adopted a
> > rectangular survey system of some type?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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