Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Ascertain the Boundary Line Between the State of New York and Connecticut in Senate April 10, 1957

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... the distance of about 1 miles and 20 rods from them, running in the same direction to the Massachusetts bounds, were run and marked on the land by set offs only from the former lines. That is to say, after running and marking on the land a continuous line between the colony of New-York and Connecticut from the oblong on the Sound to Massachusetts bounds, giving to Connecticut the oblong but giving to the colony of New York no equivalent lands, they run and marked on the land another line parallel to this surveyed and marked line, on the easterly side of it, at the proper distance from it, through its entire length, comprising the 61,440 acres of equivalent lands. Eut such other east line was only run and marked by set offs and monuments erected at distances of about two miles from each other, leaving these monuments as guides and directories to locate at any future occasion an exact, continuous line through them. The principal governing monuments, viz: the one at the beginning towards the south, the intermediate one nearly opposite to the end of the line from Courtland's Point, and the one at the termination in the Massachusetts line are now actually ascertained and identified, and of course indicate the general course of the whole east line of the equivalent lands. Through these monuments and other intermediate ones wherever they can be found or can be shown by proper evidence to have once existed, the line must now be located just as if the monuments all remained to this time, without regard to the straightness or crookedness of the line indicated by them. Had the line been run within a year or two after the monuments were first erected, and before being obliterated, it is plain the line must have run straight only from one to another of these...