The controversy between tlie two colonies of New York and Connecticut concerning it lasted nearly a century, during which time the disputed ground afforded a sort of sanctuary for the most desperate kind of outlaws and robbers. Some improvement, however, must have taken place prior to the settlement of the bomidary, since we find the people living on the Oblong, between the governments of New York and Connecticut, employing the religious services of the Rev. Mr. Dibble, Rector of Stamford.*'

The commissioners appointed for settling the lines, assembled at

• See Royal Charter of Cortlandt. b Trumbull's Ilisl. of Connecticut.

* Reports of Propagation .Society.

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Greenwich J April 29th, 1725, when they came to the following agreement as to the means of ascertaining the lines, viz., " they are the westernmost line, called eight miles, the line running east northeast thirteen miles and sixty-four rods from the eight mile line, the line called parallel with the Hudson's River, and twenty miles from it, extending from the end of the line thirteen miles and sixty-four rods northward to Massachusetts line ; the parallel line ivas in tu'o lines, having" one angle in it. The equivalent land they estimated at 61,440 acres, which has to be taken from Connecticut on the east side of the parallel line."^ ; The angle above mentioned (sometimes called Cortlandi's Point) was situated near the southwest shore of Lake Wacabuck (Long Pond.) Here the commissioners, who surveyed the manor of Cortlandt in 1734, erected a monument, which they "deemed and esteemed twenty miles distant from Cortlandt's Point, at the mouth of the Highlands."