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When the road is reduced in width the angles will be- come more prominent, and I am quite satisfied that should the fences be erected on the lines proposed by the Commis- sioners, the community would be dissatisfied with it. It is plainly the duty of the Commissioners to make a highway as nearly straight as possible when they can do so conven- iently. The Commissioners in this case were actuated by the very laudable desire to equalize as much as possible among the adjoining owners, the surplus lands. But whilst they should zealously guard the interest and respect the wishes of individuals, they ought always to bear in mind
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that in such cases, those interest and wishes must give way to the public good. I think it decidedly for the interest of the public that the road should be located as indicated by the appellant in his notice of appeal, and I therefore deem it my duty to reverse so much of the order as is appealed from.
It is therefore ordered that so much of the said order, as directs the said road, from the main angle nearly opposite Jeremiah Hedges, leading or running southerly as far as the burying-ground, to be cut down from its present width to five rods wide, and the same is hereby reversed. August 4th, 1858.
J. LAWRENCE SMITH, County Judge. Recorded Aug. 12th, 1858.
A true copy of the original.
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
PAGE 218. Nov. 11th, 1858. W. H. Foster has in keep- ing two stray yearling heifers, one pied, the other red. The pied one marked one slit in the left ear, the red one half-penny upper side the left ear, and both horns sawed off.
PAGE 218. (Abstract) Capt. Edward White has in keep- ing a stray red cow, square crop the right ear and a slit in the left ear.
PAGE 218. Nov. 29th, 1858. (Abstract) Capt. Frank Sayre has in keeping a stray yearling steer. Half-penny over the left. half-penny over and under the right.
PAGE 218. Dec. 1st, 1858. SUFFOLK Co.,
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON, S S.S.
Whereas the Commissioners of Highways of the Town of Southampton, did by order dated the second day of June, 1858, and in pursuance of an application made by twelve
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freeholders, of said Town (which application or petition was verified by oath) survey, define, and lay out the road known as Sagg Street, extending from the Country Road to the house of Henry White, discontinuing a portion of the same : and whereas, an appeal was made from so much of the said road as changed the said road between the angle in the sur- vey opposite the house of Jeremiah O. Hedges, and the north end of the burying-ground ; and whereas the County Judge sustained the appeal reversing the action of the said Commissioners,
Now therefore, we the undersigned Commissioners of Highways, of the said town, all of the said Commissioners being present, do hereby order, determine and certify that the west line of said road, between the angle opposite the house of Jeremiah O. Hedges and the angle opposite the N. W. corner of the burying-ground shall be a line starting from the first mentioned point and measuring south 30 deg. west 18 ch., 50 links, to a point five rods west of the said northwest corner of the burying-ground, and the east line of the said highway, runs from the first mentioned angle S. 24 W. 17 ch., 80 links, to a tree at or near the southwest corner of the home lot of the late Ebenezer White. And the said Commissioners do further order and determine. that all such portions of the old road or highway as are not included between the two lines above described, are hereby discontinued.
ALANSON TOPPING, } Commissioners J. F. FOSTER, of
ALBERT J. POST, S Highways.
A true copy of the original on file at this office,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Posted and recorded, April 6th, 1859.
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PAGE 219.
SUFFOLK COUNTY,
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON, SS.
We, Alanson Topping, Albert J. Post, and J. F. Foster, Commissioners of Highways of the said Town of South- ampton, do hereby order that so much of the said town as is embraced in road district number 8, shall be divided in- to two road districts, to wit, Road District number 18, shall embrace all of the eastern portion of the highway of Dist- rict number S, commencing at the point of intersection of Districts No. 8 and 9, nigh the head of the road running past Lodowick H. Cook's, nigh Roger Marion's house, thence westerly to the south and west side of Capt. James Rogers' house, thence westerly in a direct line to the foot or west- ern part of Cook's or Woolly Lane ; thence north and west to the middle line or where the northwestern boundary of Dist. No. 8 intersects the north-eastern boundary of Dist. No. 7.
Given under our hands, this the 29th day of March, 1859.
ALANSON TOPPING, ALBERT J. POST, Commiss.
J. F. FOSTER,
Recorded the 1st day of April, 1859,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
PAGE 219. Whereas a road in the Town of Southampton, County of Suffolk, has been used as a highway for more than twenty years, and has been recorded, but not suf- ficiently described and defined,
Now, we the undersigned Commissioners of Highways, of the said Town (all the Commissioners having been noti- fied to meet at this time and place for the purpose) having met at the residence of Albert Post, in the said town for the purpose, causing said road to be ascertained, described and
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. entered of record, in the town clerk's office and having caused a survey of the said road to be made, do order that the said road be, and the same is hereby ascertained and described according to the said survey, beginning at the south-west corner of the land of Age Halsey, and running sonth 27 degrees, cast 16 chains, thence south 10} deg. E 26 chains, 31 links, thence south 19 deg., east 8 chains, G links to the south-west corner of the north lot of the heirs of George Bowden, decd., the said line to be the east side of the road which shall be and remain of the width of six rods according to the within diagram or survey.
Dated this 15th day of November, 1858, at the Town of Southampton.
ALBERT J. POST, ) Commissioners ALANSON TOPPING, of
J. F. FOSTER, Highways.
A true copy of the original on file at this office, ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded April 2nd, 1859. Posted April 23rd.
PAGE 220. Town meeting held the 5th day of April, 1859.
Supervisor, Edwin Rose elected for the ensuing year.
Town Clerk, Albert Post elected.
Justice of the Peace, Edwin Rose.
Assessors, Daniel Y. Bellows and Isaac C. Halsey.
Collector, James M. Halsey.
Commissioner of Highways, John S. Jessup.
Overseers of the Poor, James L. Haines and Alanson Topping.
Inspectors of Elections : 1st Dist. Philander R. Jen- nings, Stephen B. French elected, Daniel H. Douglass ; 2d Dist. Elbert Rose, Horatio G. Sayre elected, James M. Halsey appointed ; 3rd Dist. Noah D. Ellsworth, Lewis Hildreth elected, Philetus Pierson appointed ; 4th Dist. B.
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F. Hallock, Sidney B. Topping elected, Hervey Halsey ap- pointed ; 5th Dist. John Bellows, Richard J. Wells elected, Wm. N. Raynor appointed.
Constables, Enoch Eldredge, Herman Woodruff, James MeCue, Timothy Jagger, John Reney.
Pound Masters, John F. Foster, Merrit Culver, Egbert Peterson, Jesse R. Halsey.
Overseers of Highways, Dist. No. 1 Jacob Raynor, No. 2 James Bishop, No. 3 Charles Cooper, No. 4 John Adams, No. 5 Joshna Corwin, No. 6 Daniel Jagger, No. 7 Austin Woolley, No. 8 Joseph Borroughs, No. 9 James L. Sand- ford, No. 10 Robert Hedges, No. 11 Samuel Strong, No. 12 Lewis Corwin, No. 13 Isaac W. Osborn, No. 14 David R. Rose, No. 15 Joshua Squires, No. 16 Andrew Jackson, No. 17 Andrew J. Jagger, No. 18 Samuel A. Haynes.
Town Trustees, Henry Gardiner, Zebulon Jessup, Phile- tus Pierson, Nathan White, George Herrick, Abraham H. Gardiner, Albert Reeves, Francis R. Bishop, Peter Fourn- ier, Joseph R. Harris, David Jagger, John Bishop.
The report of the Overseers of the Poor, read and ac- cepted.
The report of the Supervisor read and accepted.
The resolution, shall cattle, horses and sheep be permit- ted to run at large, was voted npon and lost.
Resolved, that the Overseers of the Poor and the Super- visor be, and they are hereby authorized to purchase twen- ty acres of land adjoining, or in the vicinity of the Poor House farm, for the use of the town.
Voted, that the sum of seven dollars be appropriated for the use of the house.
Voted, that $2,000 be raised for the support of the poor.
Voted, that $450 be raised for the contingent expenses of the town to go to the Supervisor.
EDWIN ROSE, Moderator,
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk,
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PAGE 221.
SUFFOLK Co., SS.
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON,
Whereas upon the application of a certificate of twelve reputable freeholders, of the said town as required by stat- ute, certifying such highway was necessary and proper, ac- cording to within survey. Now therefore, it is ordered by the Commissioners (all of them having been duly notified and present) and determined after hearing all the reasons for and against the same, that a public highway shall be and the same is hereby laid out pursnant to said applica- tion, whereby a survey has been made, and is as follows, to wit, commencing at the north-east corner of Wm. R. Sleight's lot on the west side of the road, leading from Sag- Harbor to Shelter Island ferry, and running N. 30 deg. W. 22 chains and three links to a road leading from Short Beach to said ferry, the above described line to be the south- erly line of a three rod highway.
In witness whereof we the undersigned commissioners, have hereunto subscribed our names this the 31st day of May, 1859.
ALANSON TOPPING, Commiss. ALBERT J. POST,
A true copy of the original on file at this office,
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
Recorded June 7th, 1859.
PAGE 222. Order and survey of Ketchabonack highway, from Main Street to the Ocean.
At a meeting of the Commissioners of Highways of the town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, in said town on the 12th day of May, 1859 (all of the Commissioners having met and deliberated on the subject of this order) upon the application, and on the certificate of twelve reput-
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able freeholders of said town convened, and duly sworn, certifying that such highway is proper and necessary. Now it is hereby ordered and determined by the Commissioners that a highway be laid out according to a map and survey, hereunto annexed, of the width of three rods, by the con- sent of Harriet Raynor, Eli Fordham and Charles Howell, through whose lands the said highway is to pass, and the said Commissioners have caused a survey thereof to be made as follows :
Commencing on the south side of said Ketchabonack Street, at a stake one and a-half rods from the north-west corner of the land of Harman Bishop, and running south 39 deg. E. through the land of Harriet Raynor, and paral- lel to the division line between the land of the said Harriet Raynor and Harman Bishop, to angle opposite the said Bishop's south line, the distance being nine chains and eighty-five links ; thence south 43 deg. E. six chains and forty-three links to angle at Eli Fordham's N. E. corner, and Mrs. Raynor's S. E. corner ; thence south 39 deg. E. eight chains and forty-four links along the line between the lands of Charles Howell and Eli Fordham to angle, thence S. 37} east along the line between the lands of the said Charles Howell and Eli Fordham, twenty-seven chains and thirty-three links to angle at the north end of meadow at the south-east corner of the said Fordham's lot ; thence S. 31 deg. E. across the meadow of Charles Howell to the cen- tre of the north of the bridge nineteen chains and twenty- six links ; from the centre of the south end of the bridge, S. 22} east to the Ocean, the above described line being the centre of a three rod highway, extending from the said Ketchabonack Street to the Ocean.
In witness whereof the Commissioners of Highways of
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said town, have hereunto subscribed their names this the . 12th day of May, 1859.
ALANSON TOPPING, Į Commiss. ALBERT J. POST,
A true copy of the original on file at this office.
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk. Recorded July 1st, 1859. Posted July 7th.
PAGE 222. (Abstract.) Dec. 20th, 1859. Halsey Steph- ens has in keeping a two year old red heifer, marked thus, a square crop on the right ear, and a hollow crop or fork on the left, with a half-penny under the same.
PAGE 223.
SUFFOLK CO.,
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON, SS.
Whereas a certain section of a road leading from Chat- field's Corner to and through Corwith's Neck, to Old Root in said town, now used as a public highway and had been used as such for more than twenty years preceding the twenty-first day of March, A. D., 1797, but has not been sufficiently described of record.
Now therefore, we the undersigned two of the Commis- sioners of Highways of said town, all of the Commissioners having been duly notified to attend, do hereby order that said road be described and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office, according to a survey made under our direc- ction as follows :
Commencing at a locust stake on the south line of high- way leading from Henry M. Chatfields's to Horse Mill and Ludlow's Lanes, from said stake southwesterly, fifty-four rods to a locust stake, standing at the south-east corner of the burying-ground, thence south-westerly as the ditch now stands, in a direct line one hundred and fourteen rods to a
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locust monument at the commencement or juncture of the two necks of land called Corwith's, and Old Root Necks, and we further order that the line above described, be the west line of said road, and the said highway be of the width of three rods.
Given under our hands this 11th day of July, 1859.
ALANSON TOPPING, ALBERT J. POST,
Commiss.
A true copy of the original by me,
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
Recorded Dec. 13th, 1859.
PAGE 223.
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON, ! COUNTY OF SUFFOLK,
SS.
We, the undersigned Commissioners of Highways, of the Town of Southampton, do hereby order and determine that road district No. 9, in said town, shall be, and is hereby divided into two districts, as follows :
Road District No. 20 shall embrace all that portion of the highway of district No. 9, lying south of a line com- mencing on the western boundary of district No. 8, and six rods south of the main Country road, leading from South- ampton to East-Hampton, and running easterly all the way six rods from the said Country road to the western bound- ary of district. No. 10.
Given under our hands, this the 3rd day of April, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING, JOHN S. JESSUP, Commiss. ALBERT J. POST,
A true copy of the original by me,
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk. May 1st, 1860.
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PAGE 224. Before the County Judge of Suffolk County.
In the matter of the appeal of David Pierson, from an order of the Commissioners of Highways, of the town of Southampton, reducing the width, and locating the west line of Sagg Street.
The Commissioners of Highways of the town of South- ampton, having made an order (without date) posted April 6th, 1859, locating the east and west lines of Sagg Street, southerly from the main angle opposite the house of Jere- miah Hedges, and discontinuing all such portions of the old road or highway, as are not included between the said two lines, and David Pierson having appealed from so much of the determination of the Commissioners as directs the closing up to five rods in width of that portion of the original road known as Sagg Street, and embraced in his former appeal, lying between the main angle of said road, nearly opposite Jeremiah Hedges, extending or ruming southerly some 10 or more rods to an angle made by them- selves (in their survey) opposite Jeremiah Hedges' house. and from this latter point starting and extending their lines Southerly instead of starting them directly from the main angle of the aforesaid original road, nearly opposite Jere- miah Hedges, in conformity with his former appeal, and the decision of the County Judge on the same, on the 4th day of August last, a copy of which order and notice of ap- peal is hereto annexed. And the County Judge having thereupon assigned the 11th day of July, 1859, at 2 o'clock P. M. on the said highway opposite the house of Jeremiah Hedges, as the time and place of hearing said appeal, and having caused notice thereof to be served on one of the Commissioners of Highways of said town, pursuant to the statute.
And having attended at the time and place so assigned,
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and been attended by said appellant and by all of said commissioners and their counsel, and heard the proofs and allegations of the parties, and having deliberated thereon, doth decide and order as follows :
The whole difficulty in this case seems to have arisen from a difference of opinion between the parties as to the true construction of my former decision and order, made on an appeal relative to this same road, and dated Aug. 4, 1858.
That decision reversed so much of the order of the com- missioners (posted June 11th, 1858) as directs the said road from the main angle nearly opposite Jeremiah Hedges running southerly as far as the burying-ground, to be cut down from its present width to five rods wide.
The question now between the parties is, What was the main angle intended by that decision ? The Commissioners contend that it was an angle made by them in their survey directly opposite Jeremiah Hedges' house, this angle ap- pears very prominently on both of the maps filed with their former order and with the order now appealed from.
The appellant contends that the main angle is directly opposite the south end of Jeremiah Hedges' cow house. I have taken testimony as to where the main angle was at the time of the making of the former order of the Commission- ers and this testimony, together with the location of the premises and the shape of the several wagon tracks which traverse the road in that vicinity, leave no doubt in my mind, and I now decide that the main angle on the west side of said highway as it was at the time of making the first order, was about two feet southerly of, and very near to the southerly end of Jeremiah O. Hedges' cow house. And that the line running south 11 deg. 30 min. west in the two surveys of the said commissioners should have termi-
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nated at a locust post at the end of the board fence lately erected by said Jeremiah Hedges, which post is on a line drawn parallel to, and about two feet southerly of said cow house. The objection raised to the former order was that the lines and points adopted by the commissioners, ren- dered the angles prominent, and made a crooked road of one before apparently straight. The whole order was not appealed from, and it was therefore in my power entirely to obviate this objection, but my decision was intended to obviate it as far as possible for me to do so. The construc- tion put upon that decision by the commissioners, will pre- vent it from affecting the purpose intended, and leave the most objectionable feature of. the lines adopted by the com. missioners even more prominent than before. I think they erred in adopting the angle made by them as the main ang- le, and starting their new lines from that point. I there- fore, am compelled again to reverse the decision as to the west line. The east line does not appear to be objected to and is not appealed from, except (perhaps) so much of it as is embraced between the post above indicated, and the main adopted by the Commissioners and as to that part, I see no utility in, or necessity for disturbing it.
It is therefore ordered that so much of said order made by the Commissioners of Highways of the Town of South- ampton. Recorded and posted April 6th, 1859, as determs- ines and directs that the west line of the road known as Sagg Street, in the said town of Southampton, between the angle opposite the house of Jeremiah O. Hedges, and the angle opposite the north-west corner of the burying ground shall be a line starting from the first mentioned point and running south 30 deg. west, 18 chains, 50 links to the point five rods west of the burying ground and as discontinues
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all the portions of the Old road or highway west of said line be, and the same is hereby reversed.
J. LAWRENCE SMITH, County Judge of Suffolk County.
A true copy of the original on file at this office,
per me, ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
Recorded Dec. 16th, 1859.
PAGE 226.
Town of Southampton, SS :
County of Suffolk,
We the undersigned, Commissioners of Highways of the town of Southampton, do hereby order that road dis- tricts Nos. 1 and 17 shall be divided into three districts, as follows, to wit : Road district number 17 shall embrace all of the eastern portion of the district No. 17 that lies between Beaver Dam and Speonk river, and all the inhab- itants liable to work on the highways, residing between the two above mentioned points shall be and are hereby as- signed to work on said district number seventeen.
Road district No. 19 shall embrace all of that portion of the districts Nos. 1 and 17 contained between Speonk river and Benjamin Tuthill's mill stream. All persons living between the two above mentioned points, that are liable to do highway duty, shall be and are hereby assigned to work on said district No. 19.
Road district No. 1 shall embrace all that portion of the district No. 1 that lies between Benjamin Tuthill's mill stream and Seatuck river, and all persons liable to do highway duty, living between the two above mentioned
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points, shall be and are hereby assigned to work on said district No. 1.
Given under our hands this the day of March, 1860.
JOHN JESSUP, ALBERT J. POST, S Commissioners.
A true copy of the original, by me, ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
PAGE 227.
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 24.
Office of the School Commissioner, first Assembly District, Suffolk: County, April 4th, 1860:
It is hereby ordered by the undersigned, School Com- missioner for Assembly district No. 1, of the county of Suffolk, that a new school district be formed from district No. 16, in the town of Southampton, which new district is hereby numbered 24, and is bounded as follows : beginning at the point where the line between school districts Nos. 6 and 16 is intersected by the Post Lane (so called) ; thence on a north or northerly course to a certain rock (known as the half-way rock) ou the North Sea road, where the north! line of said districts intersects the said North Sea road ; thence westerly on the line between school districts No. 16 and 15 ; thence southerly on the line between school dis tricts No. 5 and 16; thence easterly on the line between school districts No. 6 and 16 to the place of beginning.
Given under my hand the day and year above written.
J. W. HUNTTING, Sch. Com. 1st Ass. Dist., Suffolk Co.
A true copy of the original on file at this office,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
April 10th, 1860.
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PAGE 227. In the matter of the application of Edward White to be set off from school district No. 24, now in for- mation from district No. 16, to school district No. 15, in the town of Southampton, it is hereby ordered by the un- dersigned, School Commissioner for the first Assembly dis- trict of the County of Suffolk, that the petition of said Ed- ward White be granted, the trustees of said districts hay- ing given their consent to the same, and the said Edward White is accordingly set off to said school district No. 15, and the line between the said district is hereby altered so as to locate the dwelling house of the said White within the bounds of district No. 15, that is to say, starting from the stake on the Mill Stone Brook road and following said road by the house of the said Edward White to the Hills.
Dated Southold 11th April, 1860.
J. W. HUNTTING,
Sch. Com. 1st Assembly Dist., Suffolk Co.
A true copy of the original, by me,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
April 13th, 1860.
PAGE 228. Town Election, April 3d, 1860.
Justice of the Peace, Philander R. Jennings, elected, 4. years.
Supervisor, Jonathan Fithian.
Town Clerk, Albert J. Post.
Assessors, Charles Howell, James L. Haines.
Collector, William D. Halsey.
Overseers of the Poor, James L. Haines, Alanson Top- ping.
Commissioner of Highways, Albert J. Post.
Constables, Herman Woodruff, James McCue, Franklin Jagger, Enoch Eldredge, John Reney.
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Inspectors of Election, Ist dist., Philander R. Jennings, David P. Vail, Thomas E. Crowell.
2d district, C. W. Hedges, John F. Youngs, Alanson Topping.
3d, Benjamin H. Foster, Frederick S. Sayre, Noah D. Ellsworth.
4th, Sidney B. Topping, B. F. Hallock, Harvey Halsey. 5th, Richard L. Wells, Geo. S. Wells, Joshua Corwin.
Overseers of Highways, Dist. No. 1, John Laraby, No. 2, Halsey Rogers, 3 John H. Howell, 4 John Adams, 5 Ben- jamin F. Warner, 6 Albert Reeves, 7 Capt. Edward Halsey, 8 Samuel A. Haines, 9 Herman Woodruff, 10 Wm. D. Hal- sey, 11 Edward Colling, 12 Sylvester Howell, 13 Isaac Os- borne, 14 Lewis Scott, 15 Samuel Robinson, 17 William A. Jackson, 18 Enoch Halsey Haines, 19 Jacob Raynor, 20 Thomas Cooper.
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