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George H. Cook,
STATE GEOLOGIST.
Edited by GET NJ
Copyright 2003
A corresponding act was passed
by the Legislature of New York,-and under these acts:-Robert Walters, of
the City and Province of New York; Isaac Hicks, of Queens county and
Province of New York; Allane Jarrat, of the City and Province of New York,
and Surveyor for and in behalf of said Province; John Johnson and George
Willocks, of the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey; James
Alexander, Surveyor General of the Eastern and Western Divisions of said
Province, and Joseph Kirkbride and John Reading, of the Western Division
of New Jersey, were appointed commissioners.
They were to "determine which
of the streams is the northernmost branch of the river Delaware -- and to
find out that place of the said northernmost branch of Delaware river that
lies in latitude 41 deg. 40 min., which is the north partition point of
New York and New Jersey."
They located the point at Cochecton on the east
bank of the Delaware, 38 chains north of the middle of the mouth of
Station Brook, and their report, which is dated July 25, 1719, and signed
by all the commissioners is recorded in the office of the Secretary of
State at Trenton, Book ), 2 of Deeds, p. 280, &c. and their map is in Book
G, 2 of Deeds.
Latitude 41 deg. on the Hudson's River was also determined, and the line joining the two points was traced through; but the
report upon them is said not to have been signed by the New York
commissioners.
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