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Copy submitted by Shirley Houck, electronic file by Joyce Riedinger, May 19, 2000 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:
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 page 7 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 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 |
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