By this act, the New Jersey proprietors are attempting to absorb a number
of settlements made under patents and grants from the province of New York. Some of the
inhabitants of these settlements have paid taxes and performed public duties for New
York for forty or fifty years. Because the various attempts at settling the line were
not warranted by suf ficient authority, and were made for temporary purposes, the
boundary is still unsettled and uncertain. On 22 July 1684, the Indian Sachems of
Minisink appeared before the Council of New York and declared themselves under that
government. On [17?] September 1684, the Governor and Council of New York asked that the
inhabitants of Tappan appear in October 1685 to take out patents for their land. Many
appeared on 9 October 1685 to do this. In September 1686, Deputy Governor Gawen Lawrie
of East New Jersey and John Skene, Deputy Governor of West New Jersey, acquainted
Governor Dongan of their intention of running a boundary line. Dongan assented to this,
and proposed that the northernmost branch of the Delaware River, the boundary according
to the patent, be agreed upon and fixed, and that the surveyors meet at the falls of the
Delaware for this purpose on 1 September 1687. Extract from among the proceedings of the
Commission to settle boundary between New York and New Jersey.
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Format
correspondence
Genre
correspondence
Date
1769 July n.d.
Physical Description
3
Note
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