THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 39/ 



ground afforded a sort of sanctuary for the most desperate kind of out- 

 laws and robbers. 



The commissioners appointed for settling the lines, assembled at 

 Greenwich, April 29th, 1725, when they came to the following agree- 

 ment as to the means of ascertaining the lines, viz.: — "They are the 

 westernmost line, called eight miles, the line running east north-east, 

 thirteen miles and sixty-four rods from the eight mile line, the line called 

 parallel with the Hudson's River, and twenty miles from it, extending 

 from the end of the line thirteen miles and sixty-four rods northward to 

 Massachusetts line ; the parallel line was in two lines, having one angle 

 in it. The equivalent land they estimated at 61,440 acres, which has 

 to be taken from Connecticut, on the east side of the parallel line."" 



The angle above mentioned (sometimes called Cortlandt's Point) was 

 situated near the south-west shore of Lake Wepuck, (Long Pond), on 

 the lands of Edwin Bouton. Here the commissioners who surveyed the 

 manor of Cortlandt in 1734, erected a monument, which they "deemed 

 and esteemed twenty miles distant from Cortlandt's Point, at the mouth 

 of the Highlands." 



"The complete settlement of the boundary line, (says the historian 

 Smith,) was not made till the 14th of May, 1731, when indentures certi- 

 fying the execution of the agreement in 1725, were mutually signed by 

 the commissioners and surveyors of both colonies. 



Upon the establishment of this partition, a tract of land lying on the 

 Connecticut side, consisting of above sixty thousand acres, from its fig- 

 ure called the Oblong, was ceded to New York, as an equivalent for 

 lands near the Sound, surrendered to Connecticut? 



In 1728, William Truesdale and Samuel Tuttle who had obtained a 

 patent right from Connecticut for certain lands in the Oblong were dis- 

 turbed in their possession by the proprietors of Ridgefield, as appears 

 by the following document : 



' ' To the proprietors of ye town of Ridgefield greeting, "We, the subscribers 

 hereunto being settled on that tract or parcel of land on ye west of your town 

 which goes by ye name of ye 'Equivalent land,' expecting that we might have 

 been quiet there by virtue of a patent right c that we have obtained, but was 

 very sensible that it is your design to enter upon and take actual possession of 

 said land and allott it out to such proprietors of your town according to each 

 man's propriety in your township ; and we being gotten upon said land and have 

 been at considerable charge to remove our families and labor done on said lands, do 

 now request and desire that you would please to account of us, as equal sharers 



a Letters on Boundaries. Hartford ; Letter 117. 

 b See Douglas's late Plan of the British Dominions of New England 



e No such patent is recorded in the Secretary of State's office of Connecticut, nor mention 

 jnade of their names. 



