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Geological Survey of New Jersey
Report
On A
Survey Of The Boundary Line
Between
New Jersey and
New York,
made in July and August, 1874. George H. Cook,
STATE GEOLOGIST.
Edited by GET NJ
Copyright 2003
TO HIS EXCELLENCY JOEL PARKER, Governor of the State of New Jersey, and
ex-officio President of the Board of Managers of the State Geological
Survey.
Sir:
I have the honor herewith to submit my report upon the Survey
of the Boundary or "Partition" line between New Jersey and New York.
With
high respect, Your obedient servant, GEORGE H. COOK, State Geologist
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New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 8, 1874.
REPORT.
From the beginning of the Geological Survey it has been noticed
that the mile monuments, which mark the line of division between this
state and New York, are not well protected, or fixed so as to ensure their
permanency. Several of them were not to be found; of these one or two were
reported to have'been burned into lime. Three others were found lying on
the ground not far from the line. It is also suspected that some of those
now standing have been moved from their original locations by landowners,
for dishonest purposes. And it was known by local surveys that the
monuments were not all in a straight line.
(The late Capt. H. L. Southard, in
1859, surveyed the line across the Ringwood Tract, from the 19th to the
25th mile-stone, and showed that the monuments there were not set in a
straight line.)
These particulars have been
brought to the attention of the Board of Managers in former reports of
this Survey. And in view of the doubtful accuracy of the monuments as they
now stand, and the important questions of property as well as jurisdiction
depending on the correct location of this line, a vote was passed by your
Board at its meeting in Dec. 1872, authorizing the State Geologist to have
the line, as the monuments now mark it, surveyed. This Survey has been
made and its results are herewith presented.
A short account of the
boundary itself, the questions which have arisen regarding it, and the
means heretofore taken to ascertain and mark it, seems important for the
proper understanding of this Survey.
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