jamie: i am jamie colby, today i am in bermin birmingham, alabamy say that wars are fought to change maps, this episode of "strange inheritance" is about a map. a old map. and one that survived in a family whose history spans from texas to virginia then back to alabama. >> i am patrick martin, my parents died in 1999. and my sister and i inherited house and contents. we were surprised when we figured out what it contained. >> house that patrick and his sister peggy inherited here in birmingham is their home now. >> patrick thank you for having me over. >> our pleasure. jamie: patrick apparents moved to alabama from maryland, bought the house in 19600s. pat reublg, a anpatrick a an ane of his parents but he had his own he'l while scare -- he'll , he has an early retirement. he starts to go through the house. the attic as well. it is here he comes across a box he remembers from his childhood. >> this looks old. box contains family letters and legal documents, some going back to the 18 century. >> this packet is letters from the 1780s. >> he discovers an old u.s. army muster book, an of