Copy submitted by Shirley Houck, electronic file by Joyce Riedinger
This is a verbal survey. It locates theses persons at an early date. Shirley Houck, Delaware County Clerk's Office
NOTE: Filed in the Delaware County Clerk's Office December 23,1833 and designated Map N26. The names were abstracted from the metes and bounds description thereon. The introduction to the document reads as follows:
We the undersigned Commissioners, duly appointed to lay out the Charlotte Turnpike road , pursuant to the act of incorporation, passed April 7, 1833; - do certify and report, that, we have laid out and established said Turnpike road, in the following manner: to wit:
THE CHARLOTTE TURNPIKE page 1 Beginning at a point in the Susquehanna Turnpike near R. Hotchkiss' oil mill in Town of Harpersfield Harpersfield/Kortright Town Line near point marked 5 Hosea Reynolds' shop near point marked 8 James Daugherty's house near point marked 10 over Daugherty's land to traveled road near point marked 11 McIlwaines' saw mill dam near point marked 23 page 2 John Hyde's house over Middlebrook near point marked 38 to near travelled road near point marked 39 to road and following road in center near point marked 42 near Thomas Harkness 3rds house to Kortright/Davenport Town Line near point marked 51 to Harpersfield Creek near point marked 54 Isaac Pearce's shed near point marked 62 Main road page 3 John Sherman's Waggon house near point marked 70 Daniel Ward's house near point marked 76 Jesse Booth's house near point marked 78 Seth Goodrich's front door near point marked 84 L. Kellogg's Cow house near point marked 86 Peter Smith's Barn yard near point marked 89 Frederick Davis' house near point marked 90 Ezra Denend's house & barn near point marked 94 & 95 Seth Goodrich Jr.'s house near point marked 99 Hiram Andrews' westernmost shed near point marked 101 Widow Shaver's Waggon house near point marked 102 page 4 Charlotte River Spoor & Davis' sawmill door near point marked 113 E.G. Barnes' flat near point marked 130 Barnes' tail race river near point marked 137 James McDougal's house near point marked 140 John McDougal's house near point marked 142 page 5 Dayton's Grist mill near point marked 150 travelled road near point marked 153 Delaware/Otsego County line near point marked 156 J. Young's clearing near point marked 166 Susquehanna river near point marked 172 between Luther Baker & David Crispell's houses on main road near point marked 179 in road Samuel Walling's house near point marked 185 page 6 David T. Evans barn near point marked 191 Joseph Walling's blacksmith shop near point marked 193 Adam Brown's house near point marked 194 street in Village of Oneonta near point marked 195 Edward Meig's house near point marked 196 Between A. Balou & G.H. Fancher's houses near point marked 214 Otego Creek near point marked 218 Public highway Daniel P. Straightt's Waggon house in Town of Oneonta (Otsego County) near point marked 220
And, we do further certify and report. That the foregoing survey is laid for the center of said Turnpike road.
And we do further declare that we deem it unnecessary to make said Turnpike road of such materials as is prescribed by law, in any places, except, - from the bank of the
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Harpersfield creek to a point five Chains back from station No. 53- a distance of about eight Chains 70 Links: - from station 130 to station 137,- a distance of about thirty-three Chains 50 Links, - from station 150, back, about seventeen Chains, and from the southerly bank of the Susquehannah, back, about the distance of ten Chains. And that we deem it necessary that said excepted sections of said road, should be made of such materials as is prescribed by law.
And, That we deem it unnecessary to make said Turnpike road, of greater width than eighteen feet, in any dug way, or place where the same shall be formed with but one ditch, - and that said road be made of the full width prescribed by law, in all places where the ground is so nearly level, that in forming said road, it shall be proper to make two ditches.
Given under our hands, this 10th day of September A.D. 1833
Sylvester Humphrey
Commissioners
A. Richtmeyer
I certify the foregoing to be a correct survey of the ground selected by the Commissioners, in laying out the Charlotte Turnpike road; said survey having been made by me, under their direction
Sept. 10.1833. - Isaac Burr Surveyor