The commissioners of 1725, however, entered into articles of agreement settling the manner of the survey. They, however, ran only the line bounding the tract on Long Island Sound.

For some cause action was then suspended until 1731, when the commissioners of 1725 surveyed and set off the oblong or equivalent territory to New York, defining and marking its boundary, which was to remain forever the dividing line between the respective States (then colonies). The line was substantially as at present, and is as follows, viz:

Beginning at Lyon's Point, in the mouth of a brook or river called Byram's River, where it falls into Long Island Sound, and running thence up along said river to a rock at the ancient road or wading place in said river, which rock bears north twelve degrees and forty-five minutes east, five hundred and fifty rods from said point; then north twenty-three degrees and forty-five minutes west, two thousand two hundred and ninety-two rods; then east-northeast, thirteen miles and sixty-four rods, which lines were established in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five, by Francis Harrison, Cadwaller Colden, and Isaac Hicks, commissioners on the part of the then province of New York, and Jonathan Law, Samuel Eells, Roger Walcott, John Copp, and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of the then colony of Connecticut, and were run as the magnetic needle then pointed; then along an east-northeast continuation of the last-mentioned course, one mile, threequarters of a mile, and twenty-one rods, to a monument erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one by Cadwaller Colden, Gilbert Willett, Vincent Matthews, and Jacobus Bruyn, jr., commissioners on the part of said province, and Samuel Eells, Roger Walcott, and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of said colony, which said monument is at the southeast corner of a tract known and distinguished as the oblong or equivalent lands; then north twenty-four degrees and thirty minutes west, until intersected by a line run by said last-mentioned commissioners, on a course south twelve degrees and thirty minutes west, from a monument erected by them in the south bounds of Massachusetts, which monument stands in a valley in the Taghkanick Mountains, one hundred and twenty-one rods eastward from a heap of stones in said bounds, on the top or ridge of the most westerly of said mountains; then north twelve degrees and thirty minutes east from a monument erected by said last-mentioned commissioners at said place of intersection, and standing on the north side of a hill, southeasterly from the easternmost end of the long pond, along the aforesaid line to the aforesaid monument erected in the south bounds of Massachusetts-being the northeast corner of the oblong. (See Revised Statutes of N. Y., 1881, Vol. I, pages 128-9.)

For more than a century no controversy arose, but subsequent to 1850 questions of jurisdiction were raised, and in 1855 Connecticut made a proposition for a new survey. Several sets of commissioners were appointed, but no agreement being reached, finally, in 1860, pursuant to an act of the legislature of New York, the line was run by the New York commissioners, Connecticut not being represented. The first section of the act of the New York legislature is as follows, viz:

1. The commissioners appointed by the governor to ascertain the boundary line between the States of New York and Connecticut are hereby empowered and directed to survey and mark, with suitable monuments, the said line between the two States as fixed by the survey of 1731.

PAWLING

SHARON

SALISBURY

The following is an abstract of the engineer's report of the line run under direction of the commissioners from New York, the Connecticut commissioners declining to be present or assist, viz:

Beginning at the northwest corner of Connecticut, at the monument erected by the commissioners of New York and Connecticut in 1731, latitude 42° 02′ 58′′.54, longitude 73° 30′ 06′′.66; thence south 11° 20′ west, 464 chains, to the a 47th mile monument; thence south 12° 34' west, 239 chains 57 links, to the 44th mile monument point; thence south 11° 33′ west, 160 chains, 99 links, to the 42d mile monument; thence south 13° 16′ west, 161 chains 24 links, to the 40th mile monument point; thence south 12° 21' west, 398 chains 21 links, to the 35th mile monument; thence south 12° 32′ west, 158 chains 96 links, to the 33d mile monument; thence south 11° 44' west, 243 chains 37 links, to the 30th mile monument; thence south 12° 27' west, 161 chains 32 links, to the 28th mile monument; thence south 10° 56' west, 160 chains, to the 26th mile monument point; thence south 11° 39' west, 320 chains 11 links, to the 22d mile monument; thence south 12° 18' west, 163 chains 17 links, to the 20th mile monument; thence south 11° 49' west, 159 chains 9 links, to the 18th mile monument; thence south 12° 19' west, 157 chains 15 links, to the 16th mile monument; thence south 10° 11' west, 161 chains 7 links, to the 14th mile monument; thence south 10° 51' west, 313 chains 41 links, to the 10th mile monument point; thence south 12° 24' west, 155 chains 71, links, to the 8th mile monument; thence south 10° 19' west, 159 chains 28 links, to the 6th mile monument point; thence south 12° 10' west, 164 chains 42 links, to the 4th mile monument; thence south 11° 44' west, 158 chains 99 links, to the 2-mile monument; thence south 14° 10' west, 109 chains 41 links, to the Ridgefield angle monument; thence south 25° 8′ east, 213 chains 39 links, to the 4th mile monument on the east line of the oblong between the Wilton and Ridgefield angles; thence south 24° 48' east, 157 chains 63 links, to the 2-mile monument; thence south 24° 14' east, 167 chains 28 links, to the Wilton angle monument, or southeast corner of the oblong as set off by the com missioners of 1731; thence south 67° 45' west, 138 chains 76 links, to the southwest corner of the oblong, and being where the survey of 1725 terminated; thence south 65° 44' west, 90 chains 87 links, to a point considered the original 12th mile monument point; thence south 66° 56′ west, 241 chains 93 links, to a point called the 9th mile monument; thence south 66° 45' west, 319 chains 12 links, to the 5th mile monument point; thence south 66° 25' west, 398 chains 40 links, to the angle at the Duke's Trees; thence south 23° 38' east, 172 chains 93

a The mile monuments referred to are those, at that time remaining, which were established by the Connecticut and New York commissioners of 1731.

The entire distance from the Massachusetts line to Ridgefield angle is 52 miles 35 rods, a difference of only 5 rods from the survey of 1731.

links, to a point which is west-southwest and distant 32 rods from the chimney in the old Clapp house; thence south 24° 21′ east, 224 chains 78 links, to a point opposite the old William Anderson house; thence south 24° 19' east, 173 chains 7 links, to the great stone at the ancient wading place on Byram River; thence south 17° 45′ west, 12 chains 60 links, to a rock in the river which can be seen at low tide, in which there is a bolt; thence south 27° west, 55 chains 19 links; thence south 7° 20′ east, 13 chains 45 links; thence south 12° 10' east, 16 chains 13 links; thence south, 2° 40′ east, 9 chains 4 links; thence south 28° 25′ east, 9 chains 54 links; thence south 18° 40′ east, 4 chains 77 links thence south 11° 55′ west, 6 chains 33 links; thence south 58° 10′ west, to where it falls into the sound. (See report of the commissioners to ascertain and settle the boundary line between the States of New York and Connecticut, February 8, 1861, in which will also be found a complete account of this controversy.)

In 1880 commissioners were appointed by Connecticut and New York. Their report was ratified in 1880.

These commissioners reported as follows, viz:

We agree that the boundary on the land constituting the western boundary of Connecticut and the eastern boundary of New York shall be and is as the same was defined by monuments erected by commissioners appointed by the State of New York, and completed in the year 1860, the said boundary line extending from Byram Point, formerly called Lyon's Point, on the south, to the line of the State of Massachusetts on the north.

And we further agree that the boundary on the sound shall be and is as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of the channel, about 600 feet south of the extreme rocks of Byram Point, marked No. 0, on appended United States Coast Survey chart; thence running in a true southeast course 3 statute miles; thence in a straight line (the arc of a great circle) northeasterly to a point 4 statute miles due south of New London Light-House; thence northeasterly to a point marked No. 1, on the annexed United States Coast Survey chart of Fisher's Island Sound, which point is on the longitude east three-quarters north, sailing course down on said map, and is about 1,000 feet northerly from the Hommock or North Dumpling LightHouse; thence following said east three-fourths north sailing course as laid down on said map easterly to a point marked No. 2 on said map; thence southeasterly to a point marked No. 3 on said map; so far as said States are coterminous. (See Revised Statutes of New York, 1881, Vol. I, page 136.)

The above agreement concerning these boundaries between Connecticut and New York was confirmed by the Congress of the United States on February 26, 1881. (See Revised Statutes of United States, 1881.)

(For the history and present location of the eastern boundary of Connecticut, vide Massachusetts, p. 61, and Rhode Island, p. 71. For the northern boundary, vide Massachusetts, p. 65.)

Under the charter of 1662 Connecticut claimed a large western territory. Subsequent to the Revolution, however, in 1786, 1792, 1795, and 1800, she relinquished all title to any land west of her present boundary.