Editing Symmes Purchase (section)

==Survey==
Deeds in this area will refer to the "[[Between the Miami Rivers Survey]]", "M.Rs." or "M.R.S." (M.R.S. is also used to describe the [[Congress Lands West of Miami River|"Miami River Survey"]] a survey west of the [[Great Miami River]]).

Unfortunately, Symmes' men committed many errors while performing the survey, including using [[magnetic north]] rather than correcting for [[true north]]. Further, Symmes sold much land that he did not own, some as far north as [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]], meaning that some early settlers found themselves [[squatter]]s on the [[public domain (land)|public domain]]. Symmes also sold some land that he did own more than once.<ref>http://www.surveyhistory.org/symmes_purchase.htm THE SYMMES PURCHASE by C. Albert  White</ref>