Township 19 North - From Ranges 13 West to 5 West - And Down to Township 12 North - -Including 36 Sections 1 Mile Square- - And Being All Parts Between Elizabeth, Fulton County, Arkansas and East to Alfred Gay and William Tompkins' Places and South to Mark Goodwin and Neal Princes' Places and West to Stone County Line and North to Beginning

The Land

Tomatoes and Apples
The Equator is the Latitude 0 Degrees. Latitudes are Parallel Slices of Earth cut like a tomatoe. Hence we get the term Parallels of Latitude. From Horizontal Equator N or S there are 90 Degrees. From N and S Poles there are 180 Degrees ( Slices ). Everyone aggrees the center slice of tomato is biggest. The Diameter is way smaller at the ends, in fact, the diameters of each Pole Slice is exactly Nothing. In all of History This Latitude Position has been given Primus Numeral. Mountain View, Arkansas sports in at 35 Degrees North ( 35N ). Rectangular Grid Surveys begin with Baseline ( Equator ). Townships are slices of the tomato numbered from one up as far N or S as one could reach from the Baseline. Townships consist of 36 Sections Square, that's 6 across and 6 high. Each Section is 640 Acres Square. 25.3 Acres times 6 Sections is about 152 Acres, Squared would be over 23,000 Acres within a Township. Another interesting fact is that 1 Mile Square contains 640 Acres and can be measured across 25.3 Acres down the Baseline from the Start Point or due N or S from the Baseline.

The Curvature of Earth, as our tomato slices, diminishes enough acreage that every 36 Miles or 6 Townships a new Baseline is Plotted with 152 Acres of Baseline Sections 31 through 36. Each Section is Halved and then quartered and each quarter is quartered again, by the time you reach the North and East Borders of each Township you have less than half the acres which are rehalved and quartered. This makes them Fractional Sections and are Sections 1 through 6 at their N Boundaries and Sections 6, 7, 18, 19, 30 and 31 at their W Boundaries.

This brings us to slices of apples which are cut into pie shape through the core. Each of these Slices represents the Earth's Meridians of Longitude. Longitude for Centuries was a mysterious diminsion. While on land at the Equator knowing the diameter of Earth, some of the 360 Degrees of Longitude can be Plotted until you reach the water. To measure distance across water an algebraic formulae is required to compute Time and Speed, for many years the pendulum clock refused to work while bobbing on the water. The early 17th Century finally succeeds in measuring Longitude across the Atlantic. Prior to this, Greenwich, England has always been the center of the land and Time has been measured from this Prime Meridian. The early days of America Meridians of Longitude were measured from Washington and many Early Maps denote these Meridians from Washington. So don't be fooled by what appears to be a typo error when in fact a certain meridian may have two deliniations, one from Washington, one from Greenwich.

In 1815 Surveyors Prospect K. Robbins and Joseph C. Brown set the Baseline at the confluence of St Francis and Mississippi Rivers. The Principal Meridian, the 5th one in the dividing of the land started at the confluence of Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. This put the cross point of Baseline and Meridian known as the Initial Point right smack dab in the middle of a Great Swamp in the Lowlands of the Lower Mississippi Delta Region in present day Monroe County, Arkansas. A Land Office was established at Little Rock on the Arkansas River and The Arkansas Territory began being sectioned off for Sale of Public Lands. By 1829 our dauntless surveyor reached the Lands which comprise Stone County. It is by these Acts of Congress that we begin to see our fathers recieving the Lands. While there are many people who actually settled here prior to Act of 1820. It is these Documents of Grants that place our fathers on their very own piece of land. Looking at Township 14N of Stone County we see the relation of our fathers to their neighbors and can see how the next generation married and aquired land and settled into Stone County.