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forty seven degrees east according to the magnetick compass then was from the north partition point afores to the South partition Point upon Hudsons River that the said line fell about one hundred and twenty chains distant upon a perpendicular to it from the said Swartwoots upon a North forty three Degrees East course from said Swartswoots to the said line and with the consent of the said Commissioners they the said Surveyors did direct John Harrison and John Chapman Surveyors upon Oath with chain bearers to run from said Swartwoots North forty three degrees east One hundred and twenty chains to meet the said estimated Partition line and from thence to run south forty seven degrees east to Hudsons River marking the trees along the line and marking the number of miles from Swartwoots said perpendicular at the end of every mile which work was as this Deponent believes Justly performed by the said Harrison & Chapman & their chain bearers a Journal of which work was delivered by the said Harrison & Chapman to the said Jarratt and Alexander on or about the seventeenth day of August One thousand seven hundred & nineteen (a copy of which the said Alexander entered in a Book in which he entered the transactions aforesaid and all other material Transactions concerning the said line in which he was concerned) And this deponent further says that in the month of August One thousand seven hundred and nineteen he with the said Allan Jarratt did make five or six observations of the Sun's meridional altitude on the West bank of Hudsons River at or near whats known by the name of Corbitts Old house below Tapan Creek in Order for the discovery of the Latitude of forty one upon Hudsons River, where the South Point of the said Partition line ought to be and the Commissioners being then not come the said Allan Jarratt went for

about four days to New York during which time the said Alexander made Sundry observations of the Sun's meridional altitude and observed also the meridional altitude of eight different remarkable Stars whereof some to the Northward & some to the Southward of the Zenith in two different nights that upon Allan Jarratts return from New York on or about the Seventeenth day of said Month of August he brought word of Captain Walter's one the Commissioners being Sick and as none of the other Commissioners were come they the said Alexander and Jarratt departed for New York and no meeting was afterwards to this day to this Deponent's knowledge of the said Commissioners and Surveyors for ascertaining the said line and this Deponent Says that by the help of sundry actual Surveys since made of which he has memorandums the lands in Question in this Suit upon a perpendicular from the said Estimated & markt Partition line to the best of his Judgment are upwards of seven miles Southwesterly from the said markt Partition line And this Deponent farther says that he hath carefully computed the observations made by him and Jarratt at Corbitts Old house & the observations made by himself there alone and from them hath made an estimate where the true line of Partition ought to run according to those observations and to the best of this Deponents Judgment from thence and actual Surveys the lands in question in this Suit lye several miles Southwestward from the nearest place (to the said lands) thro' which the true Partition line should run And this Deponent farther Says that in a Book in the Secretary's office of New York he believes entitled a Book of General Entries from 1686 to 1702 fo. 49 there was an Entry as Subscribed by Andrew Robinson & Philip Wells that by two observations of the Sun's meridion] altitude, made the eighth & twenty ninth days of September 1686, it appeared to them & George

Keith observers that the fortieth and one degree of Northern latitude upon Hudson River is one minute & twenty five Seconds to the Northward of Yonkers Miln And this deponent farther Says that to the best of his Judgment & by the help of actual Surveys a line runing from the said point estimated by Wells & Robinson as aforesaid as the partition point on Hudsons River to the said point fixed upon the Fish Kill branch of Delaware river by the Commissioners and Surveyors as aforesaid will leave the lands in Question considerably to the Southwestward thereof And this Deponent says that besides the lands in question there are sundry lands in the actual possession of the proprietors of the Eastern devision of New Jersey & their assigns which to the best of his Judgment are several Miles nearer to the said estimated & markt partition line than the lands in Question are and that he partly knows & in part hath heard & verily believes that the Sherifs and Justices of the Peace of the Province of New Jersey do exercise & for many years past have actually exercised the Jurisdiction of New Jersey upon & to the Northward of the Lands in Question & nearer to the said markt Partition line without any Interruption

JA. ALEXANDER.' Sworn the twenty fifth day of January MDCCXLII1 before James De Lancey.

1 An affidavit of similar import, in a case Daniel Harrison ads. Thomas Dikey, is on page 90 of the same volume, under date of May 16, 1796,-ED.

2 1742-3,

Letter from Secretary Hill to Mr Fane-relative to two Acts of the New Jersey Assembly.

[From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. XV, page 29.]

Letter to Mr Fane, for his Opinion on two Acts passed at New Jersey, one in Nov 1703, the other in Nov 1742.

To Francis Fane Esq

Sir,

1

March 8th 1742-3

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to send you the two inclosed Acts passed at New Jersey; the one Entituled An Act for regulating the purchasing of Land from the Indians, Passed in Novem? 1703; The other Entituled An Act for the Support of the Government of His Majesty's Province of New Jersey for one Year, to commence the 23 of Sep 1742, and to end the 23 of Sep 1743; passed the 25th of Nov! 1742;-and to desire. your Opinion thereon in point of Law as soon as conveniently may be.

I am Sir

Your most humble Serv
THOS HILL

1 This Act, although of great importance to the Proprietors, had never received the approval of the crown, having been transmitted without the recommendation of the Governor.-See Papers of Lewis Morris, page 158. Both Acts were submitted to Thomas Fane, for his opinion, and reported upon favorably, although not until April 18th, 1743.-ED,

Letter from John Hamilton to the Lords of Traderelative to the claim of Lewis Morris for salary while striving to obtain the Presidency of New Jersey.

[From P. R. O, B. T., New Jersey, Vol. V, F. 52 |

Letter from M Hamilton, Eldest Councillor in the Province of New Jersey, to the Board, inclosing the Case stated betwixt Col: Morris & the said M Hamilton, relating to Col Morris's Claim to the Government, before he receiv'd his Lettrs Patent to be Gov! of New Jersey. Rec August the 4th

1743.

My Lords.

The last I did my Self the Hon' to write to Your Lordships was on the 30th of May 1739 In that I Acquainted you that Coll Morris had received And published his Commission to be Governor of this Province and that when he held a Council to Sign the Warrants for the Officers Salarys, he refused to grant me a Warrant for My Salary as President & Com❜ander in Chief from the 23d of June 1738 to the 28 of Augt following, the day he published his Com'ission as Governor And told me he Expected I should pay him all the Salary I had received as president from the 20th of October 1736 the time he came here and demanded the Government and if I did not he Should be obliged to Sue me however I heard nothing further (tho he Still Keeps me from that Warrant) of it till last March and then the Governor Com'enced An Action Against me for the Salary I had received from the 20th of Octo

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