Subject: Re: nysw and pane report<br/>
Date: Dec 09, 2001 @ 02:59<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1754102129">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The western boundary of NY State is indeed fixed at the meridian or<br/>
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&gt; longitude line that runs through the western end of current Lake Ontario<br/>
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&gt; (near Hamilton, Ontario). I have not read why that was chosen. Look at a<br/>
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&gt; map, go straight south from Hamilton, across land in Ontario and then<br/>
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&gt; across Lake Erie, and it lines up with the western boundary of NY.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>the 1781 cession of the erie triangle by ny to the usa is what set the ny west boundary that way<br/>
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which suggests either geographic ignorance or an uncertain frontier between ontario & ny at that time or perhaps both <br/>
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& geowash sold the entire parcel to pa that way too in 1792 <br/>
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but ellicott did the survey work on it for the usa in 1790 & not during the war of 1812 as some believe <br/>
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nor was the tall leaning monument near dry pan the one placed by ellicott there as some others believe but is recognizably a relic of the same 1880s nypa doings that left very similar witness rocks near njnypa & nysw & that other pane point on the delaware thus totalling 4 in all some of which you & some others here may also recognize by their distinctive appearance<br/>
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m</div>