A very short day in the pines today

[Teegate]

All,

We made a short day of it today and stopped first at the Peacock Cemetery just off of route 70 in Medford, which I had been meaning to visit for years. This site holds the grave of Adonijah Peacock who was killed when the gunpowder he was drying in his kitchen for George Washington's army exploded.

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I thought there may be bones at this location from the size of the hole, but there were none

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From there we searched for 8 old survey markers near High Crossing and failed to find any of them, so we headed to the deer stand that the PBX members saw on our 3 River Crossing hike. It was not as nice as I thought it was from the distance we saw it on our hike.

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Guy

 

[onehand]

good photos, been past that cemetary many times buy never went in.

about the survey markers at high crossing....what were the survey markers for, do you know and how close to the crossing point are they

 

[Teegate]

There are hundred's of survey markers in the pines that are buried under the ground, some as deep as 15 inches. Most people have never even viewed this type of marker. Many times they are buried right in the middle of the road, and at times the scraping of these sand roads by the state to improve them unearth the markers.

These particular ones I have the exact GPS coordinates for, but without the actual info on them that I would have to fax away for, I am not able to pinpoint them exactly right now. I am in the process of getting ready for my usual fall searching for markers, so I will be getting the text info on them soon.

This time of year a GPS is not especially accurate in the pines. The trees and vegetation effect the signal. Today I walked down the road at each location, and each time my GPS gave me a different spot that it says was the location. Each spot was at times 20 feet from the last location, so just randomly digging is fruitless. I need the text sheets to find them, which as I said I will be getting. I was today just hoping I could find them without it.

Here is an example of one. This one is right near The Bear Swamp Hill Azimuth mark. It was monumented in a paint can of some sort under the ground right at the edge of the road. It had been unearthed by sand plowing of the road and was tilted over.

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Here are the locations of where I was today. Don't waste your time looking though, they are not visible. There is the old marker that Steve told me about along that section, but it was placed in the ground there by me when I found out it is not even from that area.

I have visted the township stone mentioned on that map.


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Guy

 

[onehand]

thanks for the info, i found one on old tuckerton rd the other day that was broken in half....looked like vandel work

 

[Teegate]

thanks for the info, i found one on old tuckerton rd the other day that was broken in half....looked like vandel work

That is the one Steve told me about. It actually does not belong there. If you pull it out of the ground it comes right out. I dug the hole and put it there.

Guy

 

[BEHR655]

That is the one Steve told me about. It actually does not belong there. If you pull it out of the ground it comes right out. I dug the hole and put it there.

Guy

I had found that along Tuckerton Rd about a year or so ago. It was laying on the side of the road. I told Guy about it and he dug a hole and set it in even though it does not belong there. Someone had probably found it and was going to take it but changed their mind.

Steve

 

[Piney Boy]

What a great find. I am always on the lookout for Rev. War era tombstones, and while I am familiar with the Adonijah Peacock story, I was unaware of his burial as well as this location. Thanks!