Why is it difficult to plot Eastern States?
Since the early maps of America were crude and the motives for production of so many were to claim land, it is important to understand how land was acquired, distributed and transferred during colonial times.
Land that was originally controlled and distributed by the colonial or state governments was known as state-land states. These lands were surveyed and distributed in many different ways, the majority of state-owned lands used the metes and bounds survey systems to legally describe a piece of land.