While back east, my Dad and I spent some time in the Town Clerk’s office looking up records on the Cheneys. We found a lot of property records related to the Cheneys. Now the task of finding the location of where the property is, as the stake & stones are almost certainly gone.

Brandon Town Clerk’s office. Grantee Index, Book 4, p. 398

Know all Men by these presents that I Eben M. Worster [Ebenezer Worster] of Brandon in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont for the Consideration of Eighty Dollars 34 cents paid by Ephraim Cheney of Brandon aforesaid the Receipt of which I Do hereby acknowledge, have given granted bargained Sold & Conveyed & by these presents Do give grant bargain Sell Convey & Confirm to him the [aforesaid?] Ephraim Cheney his heirs Executors administrators & assigns a certain tract or piece of land lying in Brandon aforesaid & Bounded as follow (viz) Beginning at a white pine tree being the NW Corner of Esq [?] Horton lot thence east 124 rods to a stake & Stones a [corner?] thence North 32 rods & 6 links to a Stake & Stones thence west 124 rods to the NE Corner of Noah Strongs 20 acre lot So Called thence South to the first Mentioned boundary To have and to hold the above said Bargained promises unto him the said Ephraim Cheney his heirs & assigns forever & I do covenant & I Do Covenant with the said Ephraim Cheney that I am lawfully seised in fee of the premises that I the said Eben M Worster have good right to Sell and Convey the same to him the said Ephraim Cheney & that the above said premises are free of all Incumberances & that I will warrant Secure & Defend the same to him against the lawful claims & Demands of all persons In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Seal this 17th Day of August  AD 1798 Signed & Sealed & Delivered Eben M Worster

In Presence of [?] Worster William Gates

State of Vermont

Brandon March 1st 1803Rutland County Personally appeared Eben Worster Signer & Sealer of the within instrument  & Acknowledged the same to be his free act & Deed. Before Mr Benajih Douglas Justice Peace

Recorded Nov 30th 1805