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Greenbrook Road Designation 1785:
from Warrenville Road to Rock Avenue
We the commissioners or surveyors of the
roads of the townships of Bridgewater and Bernards and the eastern
precinct in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey being called by
a number of the inhabitants of said county of Somerset and Middlesex and
having the allegations on all parties do agree to lay out a two rod road
as followth vis: Beginning in the middle of a road that leads from the
mountain to Quibbletown {Warrenville Road} by the house of Thomas Vail
{the Blue Hills
Plantation} and in the mouth of the lane that runs to the front of
John Vail's {John Vail
Jr.} house;
thence running North sixty-two degrees East
ten chains;
thence North forty-five degrees east six chains and fifty links;
thence North fifty-three degrees East thirty-four chains and thirty-four
links;
thence East four chains;
thence North twenty-seven degrees East twelve chains and fifty links;
thence North seventeen degrees West nine chains and forty links;
thence North forty-four degrees East fourteen chains and twenty three
links;
thence North forty-six degrees East nine chains; and
thence North seventy-six degrees east three chains and sixty-nine links;
thence North fifty-seven degrees East nine chains and seventeen links;
thence North fifty two degrees East three chains;
thence North sixty-eight degrees East two chains;
thence North sixty-one degrees East four chains;
thence North thirty-nine degrees East two chains and fifty links;
thence North thirty-one degrees East two chains and forty-five links;
thence North twenty-four degrees East one chain and twenty-five links;
thence North sixty-seven degrees North five chains and ninety links to the
road that leads from the mountains Southerly through the lands of the
Vermule's, which said road is to be open on or before the fifteenth day of
November next in ( ) where of in ( ) herein to sit our hands this 25th
day of August 1785.
David Smalley
Isaac Davis
Richard Fullerton
Philip T. Arsdale ?
( ) Ten Eick ?
Isaac Van ?
Recorded the 26th August 1785 by
Peter D. Vroom
For a plot of the road, see Green
Brook Road. |
