Meanings of public surveyor in anglès

Colonel Alexander was an intelligent and worthy man, who had been public surveyor.

Washington was a public surveyor at sixteen years of age.

At the age of sixteen George Washington set out into the wilderness, and acquitted himself so well that he was appointed public surveyor.

He also procured for Washington an appointment as a public surveyor, which conferred authority on his surveys and provided him with regular work.

As a consequence, he was appointed public surveyor, deriving a discipline therefrom which was of great service to him in his later career.

Through the influence of his friend Lord Fairfax he was appointed a public surveyor, and for three years he steadfastly pursued this laborious profession.

So pleased was the Englishman with George's work that he used his efforts to get him the appointment of Public Surveyor.