TITLE 5.. east, one hundred and twenty chains, along a line of marked trees to the head of Butterfield lake on lot number ninety-one; thence down along the center of said lake northeasterly to the outlet thereof; and thence down along said outlet to the county line, is hereby erected into a separate town which shall be known and distinguished by the name of Theresa.]1 Worth. [21. All that part of the town of Lorraine, in the county of Jefferson, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of township number one, Lorraine; thence easterly along the southerly line of the towns of Rodman and Pinkney, about seven miles to the line of Lewis county; thence southerly along the line of Lewis county, about six miles, to the northeast corner of Oswego county; thence westerly on the line of said last named county about seven miles, to the southeast corner of said township number one, Lorraine; thence northerly about six miles on the easterly line of said township number one, Lorraine, to the place of beginning, is hereby erected into a separate town which shall hereafter be called and known by the name and style of the town of Worth.]2 Саре Vincent. OTSEGO. Burlington. Butternuts [Morris [22. All that part of the town of Lyme, in the county of Jefferson, included within the following bounds: Beginning at a point in the center of Little Fox creek, at a place where the said creek empties into Lake Ontario, and running thence north forty-eight degrees and forty minutes east, six hundred and forty-six chains, to Burnt Rock school-house; thence north fifty-seven degrees east, two hundred and thirty-five chains and fifty-six links, to the line dividing such town from the town of Clayton; thence north thirty degrees west along said division line to the northwesterly bounds of said town of Lyme; thence along the bounds of the said town of Lyme to a point opposite the center of the mouth of said Little Fox creek; thence north forty-eight degrees and forty minutes east, to the place of beginning, is hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Cape Vincent.]s S35. [Sec. 34.] The county of OTSEGO shall be divided into the towns of Burlington, Butternuts, Cherry Valley, [Roseboom,] Decatur, Edmeston, Exeter, Hartwick, Laurens, Maryland, Middlefield, Milford, New Lisbon, Otego, [Oneonta.] Otsego, Pittsfield, Plainfield, Richfield, Springfield, Unadilla, Westford, Worcester [and Morris ;] the extent and limits of which said several towns shall be as follows: 1. The town of Burlington shall contain all that part of said county bounded northerly by Exeter and Plainfield; westerly by Edmeston; easterly by Otsego and Hartwick; and southerly by New Lisbon. 2. The town of Butternuts shall contain all that part of said taken off, county bounded easterly by the east bounds of lots number one, Bee sub. 241. two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight, in the Otego patent, to the southeast corner of the last mentioned lot; northerly by a line continued from the south bounds of a tract of land granted to 1 Laws 1841, ch. 99. 2 Laws 1848, ch. 361.3 Laws 1849, ch. 328. 4 Roseboom, by an act of board of supervisors, passed November 23d, 1854, was erected from the town of Cherry Valley. See Laws 1855, ch. 583, George Croghan, in the direction thereof to the Unadilla river; westerly by the west bounds of the county; and southerly by a line beginning at the southwest corner of lot number eight in the Otego patent, and running thence west along the south bounds of said lot to the east bounds of a tract granted to Lewis and Richard Morris, commonly called Morris' patent; then northerly to the northeast corner of lot number seventy in the patent last mentioned; then westerly along the south bounds of lots number sixty-three, sixtytwo, sixty-one, sixty, fifty-nine and fifty-eight, in Morris' patent, and the same line continued westerly to the Butternut creek; then down the same to the Unadilla river; and then west to the bounds of the county. TITLE 5. between Unadilla & Butternuts [The town line between the towns of Unadilla and Butternuts, Town line in said county, is hereby altered by commencing on the north line of the said town of Unadilla, at the northeast corner of lot No. 69, Buttern in the Morris patent, and running thence south along the east line of lots No. 69 and 75 in the said Morris patent, to the southeast corner of said lot No. 75; thence west on the south line of lots No. 75, 74, 73, 72 and 71, in said Morris patent, until it intersects the line between the Morris and Upton patents; thence south on the said Upton patent line to the southeast corner of lot No. 45 in the said Upton patent; and thence west along the north line of lots No. 46, 59, 60, 73 and 74, in said Upton patent, till it intersects the west bounds of said county, at the Unadilla river. All the Part of territory lying north of the line above described, and which now annexed to forms a part of the said town of Unadilla, shall hereafter be known and form a part of the said town of Butternuts.] [This act shall take effect on the first day of March, 1858.] [§§ 1 and 2 of an act of the board of supervisors, passed Nov. 20, 1857; see Laws 1858, ch. 378.] Unadilla Butternuts. Valley Roseboom 3. The town of Cherry Valley shall contain all that part of said Cherry county bounded northerly and easterly by the bounds of the county; [altered, southerly by Decatur and Westford; and westerly by Middlefield taken off, and Springfield. see sub. 4]. [4. All that part of the town of Cherry Valley, in the said county Roseboom. of Otsego, bounded and described as follows, viz.: Beginning at the easterly line of said town near the residence of Casper Race, at a point in the center of the public highway leading past said residence, between an apple tree on the southerly and a butternut tree on the northerly side of said highway, and from thence runs south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west, three chains fifty links to an ash tree which is on course south eighty degrees thirty minutes west, from the southwesterly corner of said Casper Race's house, and on course south twelve degrees west from a large butternut tree on the northerly side of said road; thence south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west, forty-three chains fifteen links to a stake marked T. L.; thence south fifty-eight degrees west, thirtyeight chains eight links to the center of said road, opposite the Lutheran church door on East hill, thence south thirty-six degrees fifteen minutes west, thirty-three chains forty-two links to a stake marked T. L.; thence south forty degrees west, five chains thirtyeight links to a stake; thence south fifty-five degrees thirty minutes TITLE 5. west, thirteen chains ninety links to a maple tree marked T. L., on the northerly and southerly sides of said road; thence on the same course three chains and fifteen links to opposite Casper Hartom's dwelling-house, being on the southerly side of said road; thence north thirty-seven degrees and fifteen minutes west, eleven chains and fifty links to a small hemlock tree marked T. L.; thence north eleven degrees west, six chains and eighty links to a stake marked T. L.; thence north forty nine degrees thirty minutes west, thirty chains and eighty-four links to a maple tree marked T. L.; thence south seventy-two degrees thirty minutes west, nineteen chains and sixty-two links; thence north fifty-three degrees thirty minutes west, thirteen chains and forty-eight links; thence north fifty-one degrees fifteen minutes west, one hundred and six chains; thence north eighty-seven degrees west, ninety chains and twenty links to a large butternut tree marked 1851; thence north eightyseven degrees west, eight chains and fifty links to a small maple tree; thence north eighty-eight degrees and fifteen minutes west, nine chains and forty-one links to a large maple tree marked T. L.; thence south sixty-seven degrees west, four chains and seventy-five links to a stake marked T. L.; thence south fifty-five degrees fifteen minutes west, two chains and sixty links to a basswood tree marked T. L.; thence south eighty-four degrees thirty minutes west, fiftyeight chains eighty-six links to a small elm tree marked T. L.; thence south eighty-five degrees west, nine chains and fifty-five links; thence north fifty-three degrees thirty minutes west, sixteen links to the northwest corner of the Beaver Dam patent; thence along the westerly bounds of aforesaid Beaver Dam patent, south three degrees west, one hundred and twenty chains; thence south thirty-seven degrees fifteen minutes west, sixty chains and twenty links along the easterly bounds of Godfrey Miller's patent; thence south forty-nine degrees west, sixty-two chains and twenty links along the east line aforesaid patent; thence south thirtyseven degrees thirty minutes east, one hundred twenty-five chains; (this last course and distance is along the northerly line of Outhout patent;) thence south seventy-five degrees thirty minutes west, one hundred twenty-five chains along the southerly line of aforesaid patent; thence south nineteen degrees fifteen minutes west, one hundred sixteen chains and forty-one links along the westerly bounds of the McKee patent; (the six last courses and distances are along the reputed town line between the towns of Cherry Valley and Middlefield, and has been acquiesced in for many years as the true line;) thence along the town line between Westford and Cherry Valley and Decatur and Cherry Valley north fifty-eight degrees forty-five minutes east, six hundred forty-six chains and sixty-six links to the southeasterly corner of Cherry Valley; thence along the easterly line of Cherry Valley, north three degrees west, one hundred and seventy-six chains and sixtysix links to a stake; thence along aforesaid line north five degrees west, one hundred and seventy-six chains and sixty-seven links; thence along aforesaid line north eight degrees forty-five minutes east, eighty-two chains to the place of beginning, containing about eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-one acres of land, is hereby erected into a separate town to be hereafter known and _TITLE 5. distinguished by the name of Roseboom.] [§ 1 of an act of board of supervisors, passed Nov. 23, 1854; see Laws 1855, ch. 583.] [All the remaining part of the said town of Cherry Valley shall Cherry remain a separate town by the name of Cherry Valley.] [§ 2 of altered by same act and ch.] Valley as taking off Roseboom. 5. [4] The town of Decatur shall contain all that part of said Decatur. county within the following bounds: Beginning twenty-five chains west from the southeast corner of lot number five of McKee's patent, and running thence easterly to the school-house, south of the dwelling-house now or late of Rufus Ingalls; then easterly on a direct line to the height of land northwest of the house now or late of Isaac Jennings, and the same line continued to the east bounds of the county; then along the same northerly to the first allotment of the Belvidere patent; then west along the same to a point twenty-five chains east of the easterly line of McKee's patent; and then southerly on a straight line to the place of beginning. 6. [5.] The town of Edmeston shall contain all that part of said Edmeston. county bounded on the west by the bounds of the county; on the north by the south bounds of Plainfield; on the east by a line run by Jedediah Peck, under the direction of a committee appointed by a vote of the town of Burlington for that purpose, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-six, from the south bounds of said Plainfield southerly to the north bounds of the town of New Lisbon; the line trees are marked T. L. A. B.; on the south by the north bounds of New Lisbon and Pittsfield. [82] Vol. 3. 7. [6.] The town of Exeter shall contain all that part of said county beginning at the west shore of Schuyler's lake, in the north Exeter. bounds of lot number four, in the patent granted to David Schuyler and others, and running thence along the same westerly to the bounds of lot number eleven; then along the same northerly to the northeast corner of said number eleven; then westerly along the line of lots to the northwest corner of lot number fifty-three; then southerly to the southwest corner of lot number fifty-six; then along the south line of said Schuyler's patent easterly to the southeast corner thereof; then on a direct line easterly to the southeast corner of land now or late of William Lidall, in the west bounds of the town of Otsego; and then northerly along said west bounds to the place of beginning. between By an act of the board of supervisors, passed November 18th, 1851, (see Laws 1852, ch. 422,) it was ordered, adjudged and determined as follows, to wit: ["That the line dividing the towns of Exeter and Richfield shall be Town line altered so that the line of Richfield shall commence at the southeast corner Exeter and of lot No. 3, in Schuyler's patent, and running thence south 53° 30 min. Richfield west in a direction to strike the southwest corner of lot No. 66 in said Schuyler's patent, according to the map and survey made by Francis Henry."] altered. 8. [7.] The town of Hartwick shall contain all that part of said Hartwick. county bounded by a line beginning at a beech tree in the east line of Smith's tract in Croghan's patent, at the southwest corner of the land heretofore or late of Theophilus Whalley, and running thence east along an old line of marked trees on the south line of said Whalley's land, and the land now or late of Abel Sill, and the TITLE 5. south line of the twelve thousand acre tract, continued to the middle of Oak's creek; then down the middle of said creek to the middle of the Susquehanna river; then down the same to a point opposite the southeast corner of Hartwick's patent; then west to said corner; then along the south and west bounds of said patent to the northwest corner of the same; and then along the east line of Smith's tract to the place of beginning. Hurtsville annexed to name changed Laurens. [83] Vol. 3. 9. [8] The town of Huntsville [Otego] shall contain all that part of said county bounded northerly by Butternuts, Otego and Milford; easterly and southerly by the bounds of the county; and westerly by a line beginning at the lot number eighteen, in a patent granted to Charles Reed and others, commonly called the Otego patent; then along the westerly bounds of the same, south twentysix degrees and forty-five minutes west, one hundred and two chains; then north eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes east, thirty chains to the northwest corner of lot number one hundred and twenty-four, in Morris' patent; then along the west line of lots number one hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and twentyfive, one hundred and twenty-six and one hundred and twentyseven to Wallace's patent; then north fifty-seven degrees and fifty-five minutes east, one chain and thirty-six links to a stake and stones; then along the west line of lot number one hundred and twenty-three in Wallace's patent, south eighty three chains and fifty links, to the southwest corner of said lot number one hundred and twenty-three, on the north bank of the Susquehanna river; and then south to the south bounds of the county. 10. [9.] The town of Laurens shall contain all that part of said county bounded northerly by the towns of Hartwick and New Lisbon; easterly by Milford; southerly by a line beginning at the southeast corner of lot number forty-five in the Otego patent, at the west line of the town of Milford, and running thence westerly on the south line of said lot number forty-five, and on the south line of lot number thirty-eight, to the southwest corner thereof; then in a direct line to the southwest corner of lot number thirteen, in the patent aforesaid, in the east line of Butternuts; and westerly by the town of Butternuts. 11. [10.] The town of Maryland shall contain all that part of Maryland. said county within the following bounds: Beginning at the center line east and west of lot number thirteen, in McKee's patent, and running thence south to the bounds of the county; then westerly along the same to the town of Milford; then northerly along the easterly bounds of Milford, so far that an east course will strike the division line in the center of lot number thirty-two, in McKee's patent; and then with a straight line to the place of beginning. Middlefield. 12. [11.] The town of Middlefield shall contain all that part of said county beginning at the mouth of Cherry Valley creek, and running thence easterly along the middle of said creek about one hundred and eighteen chains to the northerly bounds of lands now or lately possessed by David Hunt; then along the northerly bounds thereof to the east bounds of a patent granted to Volkert Othoudt and others; then northerly along the bounds thereof to the south bounds of great lot number four in the said patent; then |