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Beginning at the southeast corner of the door yard of of Austin Herrick, and running north one degree west 12 Ch., 36 L, thence north 9 deg., 15 min. east 9 Ch., 96 L, thence north 18 deg. east 27 Ch., 20 L. thence north 9 deg. west 9 Ch. 65 L, thence north 13 west 54 Ch. 87 L. And we do further order that the line of said survey be the west
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line of said road, and that the said road at the first station be of the width of 136 links ; at the 2nd station 116 links ; at the 3d, 4th and 5th stations 125 links ; at the 7th station 284 links ; and that the course of the east line of the said road from the 7th station, run north 11 deg. east 13 Ch., thence north 32 deg. east 9 Ch. 64 L, leaving all that open angular tract of ground between the two above described lines for the said road.
Given under our hands this 28th of March 1855.
MATTHEW HILDRETH, ) Commissioners of JOHN ALLEN, Highways. A true copy of the original, ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk.
PAGE 172. Annual town meeting, April 3d, 1855.
Supervisor, Wm. R. Post elected. Town Clerk, Robt. R. Rhodes elected.
Collector, George Herrick elected.
Overseers of Poor, Matthew Hildreth, Jas. L. Haines elected.
Justice of the Peace, Edwin Rose elected.
Assessors Daniel Y. Bellows elected, one additional, El- bert Rose elected. (Additional.)
Commissioners of Highways, Alanson Topping elected.
Constables, Enoch Eldridge, Lewis Thompson, Hermon Woodruff, Horace Foster, George Herrick elected.
Inspectors of Election, dist. No. 1 Abel C. Buckley, Jesse R. Halsey, elected, Gilbert H. Cooper appointed ; dist. No. 2, Alanson Topping, Daniel B. Howell, elected, David P. Rose, appointed ; dist. No. 3 B. R. Green, William Foster, elected, Benj. H. Foster appointed ; dist. No. 4 Erastus Foster, Geo. O. Post elected, Henry Gardiner appointed ; dist. No. 5 George Seaman, Spencer Dayton elected.
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Overseers of Highways : Dist. No. 1 Elisha Tuthill, No. 2 Abraham Stephens, No. 3 Franklin B. Hallock, No. 4 Oscar Goodale, No. 5 Wm. Warner, No. 6 Philetus Pierson, No. 7 James R. Bishop, No. S Enoch Halsey, No. 9 Ben- jamin F. Howell, No. 10 David Hedges, No. 11 Aaron Harkness, No. 12 Wm. H. Paine, No. 13 Isaac W. Osborn, No. 14 Daniel Jennings, No. 15 Joshua Squires, No. 16 Peter Hallock, No. 17 Jonathan R. Hallock.
Pound Masters, John F. Foster, David B. Stillman, Wm. Corwithe, Jesse R. Halsey.
Town Trustees : Henry Gardiner, Zebulon Jessup, Phi- letus Pierson, Nathan White, Geo. Herrick, Abraham H. Gardiner, Albert Reeves, Francis R. Bishop, John Bishop, Peter Fournier, Joseph R. Harris, David Jaggar.
Voted, That the sum of eighteen hundred ($1800) dollars be raised for the support of the poor ; and the sum of three hundred ($300) dollars for contingent expenses, for the en- suing year.
Voted, that the Supervisor be instructed to borrow the amount due the County for the support of Edward Jessup, and pay the same to the County Treasurer.
Voted, That four hundred ($400) dollars be raised this year, to be applied in part liquidation of the amount bor- rowed by the Supervisor under the preceding resolution, and that the same be paid over by him on his receipt of the same.
Voted, That the sum of seven ($7) dollars be appropri- ated for the use of the house in which this meeting is held.
Supervisors' report read and accepted.
Overseer of Poor's report read and accepted.
Voted, That the Supervisor and Town Clerk be author- ized to procure a suitable case for the convenient keeping of the books and papers belonging to the town.
We the undersigned, hereby certify that the annexed is
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a correct statement of the proceedings of an annual town meeting and the result of an election held April 3d, 1855. JONATHAN FITHIAN, ) Justices EDWIN ROSE, of the P. R. JENNINGS, Peace
A correct copy from minutes on file,
ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk.
PAGE 174.
SUFFOLK COUNTY, ASS.
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON.
Whereas, upon the application of Nichols Squires and twelve other persons, residents and freeholders in said town, and liable to be assessed to work on the highways therein, for the laying out of the highway herein after described, and in the certificate of the said freeholders and petitioners convened and duly sworn, as the statute prescribes, that such highway is necessary and proper.
Now therefore, it is ordered, determined and certified, after hearing all the reasons for and against the same that, a public highway shall be, and the same is hereby laid out pursuant to such application, whereof a survey has been made, and is as follows, " to wit" :
Beginning at a certain stake and stone, 75 links east of the south-west corner of the cross highway at the south side of the ram pasture amendments, and running north 18 deg. cast six Ch. and 84 L, thence north 18 deg. west 16 ch. 20 L., thence north 70 deg. 30 min. west 20 chains, 45 deg. east, thence north 9 Ch. 29 L, thence north 8 deg. E. 6 ch. 91 links, thence north 6 deg. 15 min. east, 11 Ch. 12 L to the southwest corner of the lot occupied by Washington Lane, and to meet the east line of the two rod highway ded- icated for a public highway by William S. Bellows, and lying between the lot of the said W. Lane, and the land of
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Gresham Aldrich and extending to the Good Ground street or road, and the line of said survey is to be the east side of said highway, which is to be three rods in width, accord- ing to the plot or diagram herewith connected.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 26th day of May, in the year 1855.
JOHN ALLEN, } Comms. of ALANSON TOPPING, [ Highways.
A correct transcript,
ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk.
Received March 22nd, 1856.
PAGE 174. Ananias Halsey's ear mark is transferred to Henry Fordham, June 21, 1868.
PAGE 175. Commissioners certificate of apportionment 1864, for teachers' wages.
1
57
$26.32
$27.21
$2.26
$65.79
2
80
50.98
27.21
3.17
81.36
3
52
33.13
27.21
2.06
62.40
4
62
39.51
27.21
2.46
69.13
5
87
55.44
27.21
3.45
86.10
6
134
85.38
27.21
5.31
117.90
7
84
53.52
27.21
3.33
84.06
8
100
63.72
27.21
3.96
94.89
9
166
105.78
27.21
6.58
139.57
10
86
54.80
27.21
3.41
85.42
12
42
26.76
27.21
1.66
55.63
14
46
29.31
27.21
1.82
58.34
15
38
24.21
27.21
1.51
52.93
16
108
68.82
27.21
4.28
100.31
17
87
55.44
27.21
3.45
86.10
18
94
59.90
27.21
3.72
90.83
19
46
29.31
54.42
1.82
85.55
20
58
36.96
27.21
2.30
66.47
22
81
51.61
27.21
3.21
82.03
23
102
65.00
27.21
4.04
96.25
24
35
22.30
27.21
1.39
50.90
U. S.
825
525.69
217.68
32.69
776.06
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RECORDS : TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON.
PAGE 176. Annual town meeting, April 1st, 1856.
Supervisor, Jonathan Fithian elected.
Town Clerk, Robt. R. Rhods elected.
Collector, George Herrick elected.
Justice of the Peace, Philander R. Jennings elected.
Town Supt. Common Schools, Albert White elected.
Assessors, Charles Howell, Elbert Rose elected.
Constables, Enoch Eldridge, Charles W. Fordham, Her- man Woodruff, George Herrick, Horace Foster.
Commissioner of Highways, John F. Foster elected.
Overseers of Poor, James L. Haines, Alanson Topping Inspectors of Election, Dist. No. 1 Benjamin Huntting, Thomas E. Crowell elected, Jesse R. Halsey appointed ; Dist. No. 2 Elbert Rose, James L. Halsey elected, Alanson Topping appointed ; Dist. No. 3 Benjamin H. Foster, Phi- letus Pierson elected, William Foster appointed ; Dist. No. 4 Erastus Foster, George O. Post elected, Dist. No. 5 George Seaman, Spencer Dayton elected, William Stratton appointed.
Pound Masters, John F. Foster, Merrit Culver, William Corwithe, Jesse R. Halsey, appointed.
Overseers of Highways, Dist. No. 1 William C. Py, No. 2 Daniel B. Cook, No. 3 Franklin B. Hallock, No. 4 Hervey L. Fanning, No. 5 Spencer Dayton, No. 6 Albert Reeves, No. 7 Zebulon Jessup, No. 8 Maltby R. White, No. 9 Jer- emiah Ludlow, No. 10 Robert Hedges, No. 11 William White, No. 12 Lewis P. Corwin, No. 13 Isaac W. Osborn, No. 14 Austin Rose, No. 15 Nicholl Squires, No. 16 Jacob Carter, No. 17 Jonathan R. Hallock.
Town Trustees, Henry Gardiner, Zebulon Jessup, Phi- letus Pierson, Nathan White, Geo. Herrick, Abraham H. Gardiner, Albert Reeves, Francis R. Bishop, Peter Fourn- ier, Joseph R. Harris, David Jaggar, John Bishop.
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Voted, That the sum of nineteen hundred ($1900) dol- lars be raised for the support of the poor for the ensuing year, and that the sum of eight hundred ($800) dollars be raised for contingent expenses.
Voted, That the sum of seven ($7) dollars be appropri- ated for the use of the house in which this meeting is lield.
Report of Overseers of Poor read and accepted.
Report of Supervisor read and accepted.
Voted, That the Commissioners of Highways be instruct- ed and authorized to furnish to each overseer of highways a copy or abstract of the laws relating to highways in pam- phlet form, at the expense of the town.
We the undersigned (presiding at this meeting) hereby certify that the above is a correct statement of the proceed- ings of an annual town meeting, and and the result of an aleetion held in this town on the 1st day of April 1856.
EDWIN ROSE, ) Justices
JONATHAN FITHIAN, ·of the
P. R. JENNINGS, Peace.
ROBERT R. RHODES, Town Clerk.
PAGE 178.
SUFFOLK COUNTY, ¿
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON, S
Whereas, the act regulating highways and bridges, in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens, and Kings, passed Feb. 23rd, 1830, gives the care and superintendence of the highways and bridges in the several towns in said Counties, to the Commissioners of Highways of the said towns, and makes it their duty among other things, to regulate the roads al- ready laid out, and to alter such of them as they or a ma- jority of them, shall deem inconvenient, and to cause such roads or highways as shall have been laid out but not suf- ficiently described, and such as were used as highways for
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twenty years or more next preceding the 21st day of March 1797, and which shall have been worked and used as such constantly for the last six years, but not recorded, to be ascertained and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office.
Now, therefore, upon the application of Herman Wood- ruff, Thomas B. Hand, John C. Leek, James L. Haines, EliasR. Woodruff, John L. Gardiner, Jetur R. Bishop, Theron Hand, Edmund Rogers, Noah H. Halsey, Silas W. Corwithe, Stephen Sayre, Abraham Halsey, and Benjamin H. Halsey, to alter and regulate the road hereinafter men- tioned and described, or such portion of it as a majority of the Commissioners of Highways shall deem inconvenient, and to stake out the same and describe it and enter it of record on the certificate and oath of twelve disinterested freeholders that certain portions of said road are useless, and ought to be discontinued, it is hereby ordered that by the said Commissioners that the road leading from Bull's- Head to the house of Noah H. Halsey, commonly called Lumber Lane and which is not sufficiently described and entered of record in the Clerk's office, in said town accord- ing to a survey which has been made under our direction as follows :
Commencing at a stake at the southwest corner of the front yard of Dr. John L. Gardiner and running N. 16 deg. W. twenty-two chains, sixty-nine links to the N. W. corner of the land of Alanson Topping at the narrow lane thence N. 15 deg. W. nine chains to stake opposite the land of Ed- mund Rogers, (from the point of beginning, to this last mentioned stake the road is to be four rods wide) thence N. 16 deg. W. eight chains to the northwest corner of the lot formerly belonging to Harry Brown ; thence N. 10 deg. W. two chains 66 L, to stake opposite the S. E. corner of Alfred Talmage's home lot, where the road south of Tal-
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mage's lot is nine rods in width, widening from the stake last above mentioned, where it is four rods to nine rods ; thence N. 6} deg. W. three chains to stake opposite the house of Alfred Talmage ; thence N. 27 deg. W. four chains to the S. W. corner of Alfred Talmage's (lot on east side of road) the road being three rods wide from the stake oppo- site the S. E. corner of Talmage's lot, tlience N. 23 1-2 W. to stake opposite the S. E. corner of Ledyard Halsey's home lot where it widens to four rod ; thence N. 16 deg. W. eighty-five chains and seventy-five links along the lands of Ledyard H. Halsey, Benjamin H. Halsey and Richard Halsey to the N. W. corner of the land of Richard Halsey at the road leading from Scuttle Hole to the turnpike ; the road from the last mentioned stake opposite the S. E. cor- ner of Ledyard H. Halsey's home lot to a point 4 chains south of the N. W. corner of Richard Halsey's farm at the Scuttle Hole road being four rods wide ; from thence to the said Scuttle Hole Road it widens to six chains and fifty links as laid down on the accompanying map.
The line above described is to be the east side of the said road or highway.
Dated this 25th March, 1856.
JOHN ALLEN, } Commiss. of ALANSON TOPPING, Highways.
A correct transcript,
ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk. Recorded April 15th, 1856.
PAGE 180.
SUFFOLK COUNTY, - TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON,
S.S.
Whereas, the act regulating highways and bridges in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings passed Feb. 23rd, 1830, gives the care and superintendence of the highways
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and bridges in the several towns in the said counties to the Commissioners of Highways of said towns, and makes it their duty among other things "to regulate the roads al- ready laid out, and to alter such of them as they or a ma- jority of them shall deem inconvenient, and to cause such roads or highways as shall have been laid out but not suf- ficiently described, and such as were used as highways for twenty years or more next preceding the 21st day of March 1797, and which shall have been worked and used as such, constantly for the last six years, but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered of record, in the Town Clerk's office."
Now therefore, upon the application of John C. Leek, Herman Woodruff, Stephen Sayre, Jetur R. Bishop, Silas W. Corwithe, Thomas B. Hand, Edward H. Howell, Noah H. Halsey, Thomas Edwards, Walter W. Hand, Abraham Halsey, and John L. Gardiner, to ascertain and regulate the road hereinafter described, and upon the certificate and oath of twelve freeholders of the said town that the alter- ations applied for are necessary and proper, and that the certain portions of the road or highway called Butter Lane useless and unnecessary for the public use or convenience, it is hereby ordered, that the said highway called Butter Lane which is not sufficiently described of record, be ascer- tained and entered of record in the Clerk's office in the said town, according to a survey that has been made under our directions, as follows :
Commencing at the country road at the S. E. corner of the homestead of Hugh Halsey and running N. 53 º W. along the west side of the said road 8 ch. 71 links to the N. E. corner of the said homestead. thence north along the lands lately or now belonging to the heirs of Nathan M. Corwithe, 3 ch 36 links, to a stake at angle ; thence N. 9 º
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E. along said land 3 ch to a stake at angle where, as at the last mentioned, angle the road is 80 links wide ; thence N. 50 E. along said land 3.00 to the N. E. corner of the said Corwithe land where the road is 75 links wide; thence N. 23 ° W. 1 ch 10 1ks to post nearly opposite the S. E. cor- ner of Scellinger's house, where the road is SS links wide ; thence N. 133 . W. stake at angle 2 ch 56 links ; where the road is four rods 14 links wide; thence N 8º W across the east end of the road leading by Jetur Bishop's and Thomas B. Hand's, northwesterly 2 Ch. 80 links to the S. E. corner of the said Bishop's garden or orchard ; thence N. S deg. W. along the land of Jetur Bishop 4 Ch., 11 links to the N. E. corner of Bishop's orchard where the road is 3 rods wide, at the S. E. of said orchard it is 1 Ch. 13 links wide ; from thence (the N. E. corner of Bishop's orchard) N. 15 deg. W. along Bishops's land, 6 Ch. 98 links to angle where the road is 4 rods wide ; thence N. 18 deg., 30 min. W. 29 Ch., 84 links along the lands of Jetur Bishop, Ste- phen Sayre, Herman Woodruff and Edward H. Howell to the line between the land of the said Edward H. Howell and Thomas B. Hand, where the road is 4 rods wide ; thence N. 173 deg., W. 75 Ch., 63 links to the Scuttle Hole road at stake near the school house along the lands of Thomas B. Hand, Noah H. Halsey and Silas Corwithe ; opposite the N. E. corner of Silas Corwithe's lot the road is five rods wide, (it widening from 4 rods at the dividing line of Edward H. Howell and Thomas B. Hand, to five rods at this point) from the angle on the east side of the road the line runs N. 1 deg. E. 2 Ch. 38 links to the N. W. corner of Noah H. Halsey's, on the south side of the road leading from Scuttle Hole to the turnpike. From the point of commencing, to the S. E. corner of the homestead of of Hugh Halsey, the road is four rods wide as far as the N.
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line of the said home lot, thence it narrows down to 80 links at the next angle. The line above described running from the country road to the Scuttle Hole road in the west line of the road known as Butter Lane.
Given under our hands at Southampton, the 25th day of March, 1856.
JOHN ALLEN,
ALANSON TOPPING, Commissioners.
A correct transcript,
ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk.
Recorded April 15th, 1856.
PAGE 182.
Suffolk County,
Town of Southampton.
Whereas the act regulating highways and bridges in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings, passed Feb. 23rd, 1830, gives the care and superintendence of the highways and bridges in the several towns in the said counties to the Commissioners of Highways of the said towns, and makes it their duty among other things, to regulate the roads al- ready laid out ; and to alter such of them as they or a ma- jority of them, shall deem inconvenient and cause such roads or highways as shall have been laid out, but not suf- ficiently described, and such as were used as highways for twenty years or more, next preceding the 21st day of March 1797, and which shall have been worked and used as such, constantly for the last six years, but not recorded to be as- certained, described and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office.
Now, therefore, upon the application of Herman Wood- ruff, Thomas B. Hand, John C. Leek, James L. Haines, Elias R. Woodruff, John L. Gardiner, Jetur R. Bishop, Theoron Hand, Edward Rogers, Noah H. Halsey, Silas W. Corwithe, Stephen Sayre, Abraham Halsey, and Benjamin
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H. Halsey, to " alter and regulate" the road hereinafter described, or such portion of it as a majority of the Com- missioners of Highways "shall deem inconvenient and to stake out the same, describe it and enter it of record ;" and on the certificate and oath of twelve disinterested freehold- ers, that certain portions of the said road are useless and ought to be discontinued, it is hereby ordered that the road leading from Butter Lane so called, and leading to Silas Woodruff's and which is not sufficiently described of rec- ord in the Clerk's office in said town, occording to a survey, to be ascertained and entered of record, which has been made under our direction as follows :
Commencing on the west side of Butter Lane, at the corner of Jetur Bishop's orchard picket fence, and running S. 71 deg. W. one chain and twelve links to another corner or angle of said orchard fence ; thence N. 54 deg. W. 15 chains and 78 links to the S. W. corner of his home lot at the line between the land of the said Jetur Bishop and Ste- phen Sayre ; thence N. 35 deg. W. four chains and twelve links to a button wood stump in the ditch, on or near the west line of Stephen Sayre's lot ; thence N. 31} deg. W. 54 chains and 80 links, to a stake nearly opposite the fence of Jesse Woodruff, at the dividing line between the lands of Thomas B. Hand and Silas Corwithe ; thence N. 41 deg. W. twenty-one chains and sixty-four links to angle near the N. W. corner of Job Woodruff's farm ; thence N. 6} deg. W. to a stake at the N. W. corner of the said Job Woodruff's farm on the S. side of the Scuttle Hole road, 0 chains and eighty links ; at the last mentioned corner of Jetur Bishop's fence the said road is three rods wide and from thence to the next stake at the S. W. corner of Bishop's home lot, at the line between him and Stephen Sayre it widens to four rods ; from thence to a stake near the N. W. corner of Job
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Woodruff's farm it is four rods wide ; on the west side of the road the angle formed the two roads, is cut off by a line drawn from a point four rods from the south of the Scuttle Hole road, to a point four rods west of the above described road as laid down in the accompanying map.
Given under our hands at Southampton, the 25th day of March, 1856.
JOHN ALLEN,
ALANSON TOPPING, S Commissioners.
A correct transcript, ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk. Recorded April 16th, 1856.
PAGE 184. Town of Southampton, Suffolk County.
Whereas, upon the sworn application of twelve freehold- ers of the town of Southampton, that such highways as hereafter described, is necessary and proper. Now there- fore, it is ordered and determined after hearing all the rea- sons for and against the same, that a public highway shall be and the same is hereby laid out pursuant to said appli- cation whereof a survey has been made, and is as follows :
Beginning at the easterly bounds of William White's farm commonly called Spring farm, running north 59 deg., 45 min. E. 8 chains, 76 L. to a red stone in centre of road, thence N. 40 deg. 45 sec. E., 15 chains, 29 links to a red stone in centre of road on the west side of Bridge-Hampton and Sag-Harbor turnpike, which is to be three rods wide.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this third day of March, 1856.
ALANSON TOPPING, JOHN ALLEN, Commissioners.
A correct transcript,
ROBT. R. RHODES, Town Clerk. Recorded April 16th, 1856.
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PAGE 185. (Abstract.) Elias Jennings' ear mark from Daniel Harris, slit and half-penny under the left ear. Dec. 5th, 1856.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) Dec. 24. Wm. S. Foster takes his father's ear mark. (John S. Foster.)
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) May 4th, 1857. John Smith's ear mark, two half-pennies under the right, and one half- penny over the left.
May 4th, 1857. David Benjamin's ear mark, slit in the end of the right and slit under the right and over the left.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) May 20th, 1857. Wm. L. Payne's ear mark, two square crops and hole in each ear.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) May 23rd, 1857. Youngs Stam- burg's ear mark square crop of the right car, and half-pen- ny under the right ear ; L under the left and half-penny over the left ear.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) May 28th, 1857. Wickham L. Jennings' ear mark from Elias Jennings. Square crop of each ear, and half-penny under and over the left ear.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) January 13th, 1858. Thomas B. Hand's ear mark, slope over the left, and nick under each ear.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) One year old steer belonging to Capt. Havens. Entered Jan. 4th, 1862-red and white.
PAGE 185. (Abstract.) Entered Feb. 19th, 1862. A stray beast, in the care of James Bunn.
PAGE 186. Whereas an order of the Commissioners of Highways, of the town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, was made and filed on the 22nd day of July, 1856, in relation to a certain highway in Quogue, in the said town of Southampton, which they ascertained and described as having been a highway, by having been used as such for
.
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twenty years upward, preceding the 21st day of March, 1797, the description and location of which road or high- way, as so ascertained by them, is contained in the said order, as also in the petitions or notices of appeal hereto annexed.
And whereas Frederick Hallock and Edward Griffin of the said village of Quogue, have within the limited time therefor, respectively appealed from the said determination and order of the said Commissioners, to the undersigned County Judge of the said county of Suffolk, which appeal is hereto annexed. Whereupon the said County Judge did give due notice to the appellants, and the said Commission- ers that he would hold a court for the hearing of said ap- peal, at the house of Jolin A. Post, in the said village of Quogue, on the 19th day of August, 1856, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon; at which time and place, the said parties ap- peared before him with their respective counsel ; and after receiving the premises described in the said order and after hearing the proofs and allegations of the said parties, the said County Judge came to the following conclusion or de- termination, viz :
That there is every reason to believe prima facie from the survey the Commissioners have made of a short section of the main post road, lying immediately east of the said village of Quogue, extending in length a little over half-a- mile, making seven angles therein, and the width of the road varying at the respective angles from 12 rods wide to 5 rods wide ; that they have erred in the conclusion they arrived at, viz : That this irregular and varying tract had been used as a highway for 20 years previous to 1797, and thus became a highway, and so it turned out in the evi- dence and investigation had in the appeals. Quite a por- tion of this road runs through the woods opposite the
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