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This decision did not satisfy either of the parties and strenuous efforts were made to appeal from it, but these met such discountenance in England, that the agents of the two Provinces finally agreed to accept it as appears from the following extract from the Proprietor's Minutes vol. B, p. 91.

"At a Council of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, held at Perth Amboy, Sept. 14th, 1770. "The agents for managing the controversy on the boundary line between this Colony and the Colony of New York, delivered in a report in the following words:

"The agents for managing the controversy of settling the division line, with the colony of New York, Do Report that immediately after the last stated meeting Messrs Stevens, Cuyler and Rutherfurd met the agents of New York and signed the agreement, a copy of which had been laid before the Board with the only alterations respecting the manner of applying for the acts of the Legislature, and inserting the names of Messrs Stevens, Parker and Rutherfurd as the persons who were to attend the running of the line on the part of New Jersey, and Messrs Wickham and De Noyelles on the part of New York.

"That in consequence thereof the 22nd of May last Messrs Stevens and Parker with Anthony Dennis their Surveyor, met Messrs Wickham and De Noyelles with James Clinton their Surveyor at Orangetown, where many of the adjacent inhabitants were assembled and were utterly averse to having the proposed line run, but on the contrary with many threats declared they were determined to prevent it, on which being apprehensive they might be obstructed if they begun on Hudson's River and Mr. De Noyelles declaring if they were he would proceed no further, they all agreed to begin on the Station Mahackamack hoping the people opposing would be better informed on their return. Accordingly they set out but from the badness of the weather did not begin before the 25th in the evening when they set off from the Station aforesaid and proceeded on a course S. 53 deg. 15 min. E. from day to day to the 7th of June when they were stopped a few chains across Saddle River by at least 50 men. They then concluded to set over to the line run and measured last summer by Clinton and Dennis, from Phillips' Mill to Minisink Island, which was done. They afterwards crossed Hudson's River and being shown the latitude of 41 deg. observed last summer, they finished the traverse from thence to the Mills, and returned to Garret tHoppen's to protract their work. On the 14th, Mr. Wm. Bayard, met them at Orangetown and the inhabitants at last agreed that the line should be run, on which the Surveyors began where they left off and fell about seventy links southward of the marked rock at the latitude of 41 degrees.

"Accordingly on the 20th they set off from the said rock on a course N. 54 deg. 35 min. W. and continued running the same to the day of July when they finished at Mahackamack, and fell four chains and fifty links southwards of the Station, and as a mark is set up at every mile, offsets can be easily made to the true line. The Surveyors in company with Messrs Rutherfurd and Wickham then went to Goshen where they finished two maps of their work, signed by them both, one of which is now laid before the Board. And further report that during the running of said line they had frequent meetings with the inhabitants near the same and took an account under what government and by what title they held their possessions, and that the New Jersey agents have the accounts of the possessions under New Jersey to the northwards of the line, and the New York agents have the account of the New York possessions to the southward of said line. They now beg leave to observe to the board that as by the agreement application is to be mode to the Legislature for a law in conformity to the same and as the assembly is now called to meet at this place the 26th instant they request the opinion of the board in what manner further to proceed.'

"Which (report) being considered is approved and the board is of opinion that advertisement be immediately inserted in the Newspapers and set up in the most public places on the line in the counties of Bergen and Sussex, of the intended application to the General Assembly for obtaning an act to confirm said agreement and Lord Stirling is requested to prepare a draft of a petition to the Assembly for that purpose. It is recommended to the above agents to meet the agents on the part of New York to confer with them, that their actions may be similar in their application for the like law."

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