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George H. Cook,
STATE GEOLOGIST.
Edited by GET NJ
Copyright 2003
The directions to
ascertain and mark the division line were carried out, as appears by the
following extract from the Proprietors minutes vol. B. pp. 181 and 182.
"At a Council of the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey
held at Perth Amboy, April 15, 1775.
"Messrs Stevens and Rutherfurd, two
of the Commissioners on the part of New Jersey for settling the line of
division between this Province and the Province of New York delivered in a
report in the following words.
"The Commissioners in behalf of the colony
of New Jersey appointed to settle the partition or boundary line between
the said colony and the colony of New York, do report, that according to
appointment made with the Commissioners in behalf of the colony of New
York, they arrived at Tappan the 16th day of October last, and having
attentively taken their beginning from the rock on Hudson's River marked
latitude 41 deg. they proceeded to run a random line calculated by former
runnings with all the
exactness in their power, and set up a post at each mile. That at
Mahackamack they again calculated a course which they also run, and
together with the former running corrected each station, and according to
law set up stone monumen1ts at every mile's distance until their return to
the rock on Hudson's River which they also marked, and further that the
Commissioners of both colonies executed a joint instrument in writing,
certifying the final settlement of the said line of partition, which they
now deliver to the Board, together with the accounts of expenses attending
the said settlement, all which they now submit to the consideration of the
board.
John Stevens,
Walter Rutherfurd."
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