thanx pete we do know why because in addition to what david has offered from van zandt below there is also given on the same page in bus&ss the more proximate cause which is that the ctma commissioners of 1803 who created the jog were only thus resolving the difficulty that caused their predecessor ctma commissioners of 1791 & 1713 to have aborted their attempts to produce the ctma line westward from the connecticut river & this difficulty was actually of a much more local character specifically between the mass town of southwick on the one hand & the conn towns of suffield & granby on the other so to be as faithful to your question as possible it is not so much that mass takes a bite out of conn as that southwick takes a bite each out of suffield & granby & i hope you will appreciate also that all this is here offered in digest rather than verbatim m
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> "The reason for this peculiar deviation from a straight boundary, known as
> the "Southwick jog," is that in adjusting errors in the boundary line
> beteen Connecticut and Massachusetts as previously run by compass, a long,
> narrow strip of land was given to Connecticut; the southwick jog ceded to
> Massachusetts was intended to be an equivalent are."
>
> Van Zandt, p. 69. Van Zandt is citing Bowen, 1882, p. 65.
>
> David
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Pete wrote:
>
> > thank you, i feel very welcome.
> >
> > Now do you know why the along the otherwise-straight border of
> > Connecticut and Massachusetts, Massachusetts takes a little bite out
> > of Connecticut, just north of Hartford? I asked the Governor's office
> > of both states and no one knew, but I'm sure you do.
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., orc@o... wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Pete" <Osafp@p...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Isn't Trenton, NJ right on the Delaware River boundary w/ PA?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > thank you very much indeed pete
> > >
> > > for presenting us here with our first full circle discussion point
> > >
> > > or global point as it were
> > >
> > > for trenton was where this thread began
> > >
> > > tho it wasnt apparent
> > >
> > > & you could not possibly have known that
> > >
> > > so i hope you will join in the amusement at this happenchance
> > >
> > > & a red carpet welcome to you also for being our third pete & thus
> > also the bringer of our multipetehood
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > sincerely
> > >
> > > m
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > > >From: Jane Hanrahan <hanrahan@k...>
> > >
> > > > > >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > >
> > > > > >To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > >
> > > > > >Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders
> > >
> > > > > >Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 07:12:32 -0400
> > >
> > > > > >
> > >
> > > > > >I'm not sure that the capital city of Providence itself is up
> > >
> > > > against the
> > >
> > > > > >state border at any point...the adjoining city of East
> > Providence
> > >
> > > > is
> > >
> > > > > >though.
> > >
> > > > > >
> > >
> > > > > >Bill
> > >
> > > > > >
> > >
> > > > > >At 05:13 AM 10/3/01, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > > >
> > >
> > > > > >>If we're willing to include state/provincial/regional capitals
> > in
> > >
> > > > > >>this group, then as far as I recall Providence, Rhode Island
> > is
> > >
> > > > right
> > >
> > > > > >>up against the Massachusetts-Rhode Island state border.
> > >
> > > > > >>
> > >
> > > > > >>Asher Samuels
> > >
> > > > > >>asher972@y...
> > >
> > > > > >>Jerusalem, Israel
> > >
> > > > > >>RFC 2549 Implementation Consultant
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