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Thomas LaCorte
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Religious Early American Surveyors |
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Some early American surveyors were God fearing religious people. I remember reading where someone with an early survey party wrote " and at the end of the day he rubbed us up with a good sermon from the Bible before retiring for the evening". Perhaps some of his sermon contained passages relative to surveying. Like the following.
Deuteronomy 19:14; Do not move your neighbors boundary stone set up by your predecessors.....
Deuteronomy 27:17; Cursed is the man who moves his neighbors boundary stone. Then all the people shall say Amen!
There is a beautiful legal description in Numbers. Here is just one verse.
Numbers 34:10: For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
Imagine what it must have been like for the early American surveyors. There was not much in the line of comfort and entertainment. The Bible and a bottle of whiskey does not seem like a
good match by today's standards. But back then, after days upon days of endless swamp and misery, they both must have seemed like a God send!!
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