Warner v. Smith

On February 17th, 1742, the Proprietors of West Jersey made three several surveys to one Edmund Ilift for three tracts of land in then Gloucester county, now Atlantic county; one called Lone Cedar Island, one called Older Island and one called Pork Island. In none of these surveys are there any metes and bounds, but the survey of Lone Cedar Island calls for sixty acres; that of Older Island thirty-three acres, and that of Pork Island seventeen acres.

During the year 1776 the Proprietors of West Jersey surveyed to one Frederick Steelman, by metes and bounds, a certain island called Beach…