This is a Mystery cache. 

THERE IS NO REASON TO GO TO THE POSTED COORDINATES! 

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I decided to do something a little different than the usual pill bottle/nano/hide-a-key/average cache container. This container is a first for me but I’ve had the idea for a long time. I wrote the story below to make sense of the container. In addition to finding the cache, you might learn a bit of history. Most of the information below is true, except I took a few liberties with some of the facts. I hope you enjoy this cache...tell your friends!! 

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Land was the most valuable commodity during the colonial period, and it had to be surveyed before it could be granted or transferred. In Pennsylvania, William Penn (1644–1718) relied upon surveyors to measure and map his new lands. Colonial surveyors established tract, manor, township, and county boundaries, laid out city streets and lots, determined borders between Pennsylvania and neighboring provinces, located the likeliest routes for roads connecting the hinterland, and established inland navigation routes and mill sites. 

Employing techniques and instruments developed in England, Ireland, and Scotland during the great enclosure movement, colonial surveyors imposed European notions of order on the Delaware Valley.

Vaymarc R. Post (1624-95) was born in Lancashire, England, on November 3, 1624, to a yeoman named George and his wife Alice. He was named after his paternal uncles Vayshawn and Marcus Post. Young Vaymarc was fascinated with numbers and excelled at Geometry. He enlisted in the Army sometime after 1649 and learned the skill of surveying. After retiring, he was granted more than 4,000 acres in County Wexford, Ireland, which was then under the control and colonization of England. At some point he joined the Quaker movement in Ireland and met fellow Quaker William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. In 1682, Penn wrote to Post from the colony asking him to come be his surveyor. Shortly thereafter, Post, a widower by now, sailed with his four children to America, where he arrived in August 1682.  

Vaymarc R. Post set about surveying Philadelphia with rudimentary tools like the Gunter’s chain and a surveyor’s compass (perhaps we will learn more about those tools in the future)!  Vaymarc R. Post produced the first two maps in Pennsylvania, A Map of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America (1682) and A Portraiture of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America (1687). Pennsylvania’s modern boundaries were not officially fully surveyed until 1792.

King William III of England knighted Vaymarc in 1694, recognizing his extraordinary efforts and skill in establishing and surveying the new American Colonies. With this title, his name became and he was known as…

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