New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (4.1)

§ acts:saved-40. (4.1)

1. That all and singular the lands, and upper parts of the said Hunterdon county, lying

to the northward and eastward, situate and lying to the eastward of a well known place

in the county of Hunterdon, being a fall of water in part of the north branch of Raritan

river, called in the Indian language, or known by the name of Allamatonck, to the

northeastward of the northeast end or part of the lands called the New Jersey society

lands, along the line thereof crossing the south branch of the aforesaid Raritan river,

and extending westerly to a certain tree, marked with the letters L.M., standing on

the north side of a brook emptying itself into the said south branch, by an old Indian

path to the northward of a line to be run northwest from the said tree to a branch

of Delaware river, called Muskonetkong, and so down the said branch to Delaware river;

all which said lands being to the eastward, northward and northwestward of the abovesaid

boundaries, be erected into a county, and it is hereby erected into a county, named

and from henceforth to be called Morris county, and the said bounds shall part and

from henceforth separate and divide the same from the said Hunterdon county.