Not directly related to Esperanza, but we have a few similar deeds floating around.  For your amusement! here is a plot description of a nearby property in the early 1800’s.  This is the description in the sale deed of the piece described.  And people wonder why New England property deeds can be so very odd…

“inclosed within the following boundary lines, beginning at the Northwesterly corner and then running East fifteen (minutes struck out, ed.) degrees South six chains and seventeen links then South ten degrees and fifteen minutes West two chains and 82 links then West eighteen degrees North six chains and thirty eight links then West of South 23 links then North 17 (chains) and 45 (links) East 2 chs. 58 links to the first bounds, bounding on my own lands on every side and contains one acre, two Roods, and twenty eight and a half rods of land, and also lands for a road or avenue to said ground, the Northwest line to begin on the Westward bounds of the said lot at 22 links Southward from the Southwestward corner, thence to run West eighteen degrees North about two rods or as far as my lands extend and from said line this road is to extend in width Southward to the now road of travel by the same more or less.”