the Port Jefferson Road sometimes called Waverly Avenue about one mile North of the said Village of Waverly and about Two Hundred rods South of the Portion Road and running Westerly nearly parallel with said Portion Road to the road called Sandy Hollow Road courses and distances as follows-1st running North Eighty two (82) degrees West Eight chains & fifty links-then North Eighty five and a quarter (851°) degrees West Seven chains forty links to Washington Avenue the other Highway herein also laid out-then South Eighty eight & a quarter (881°) West Eight chains and fifty eight links, the whole width of the road this last course and distance being South side of the fence then South Eighty and a quarter (80°) degrees West Thirteen chains--then due West to Sandy Hollow road this Highway herein laid out being called on a Diagram herewith filed Division Avenue Also in accordance with said application, and the land for the same being released & the releases herewith filed, We Order that a public Highway Three Rods wide shall be and the same is hereby laid out as follows commencing about Eighty rods west of Waverly Avenue or Port Jefferson Road, and running Northerly from the Rail Road nearly parallel with the said Road to the Portion Road, and on the East side of the land of Alfred Ashfield and adjoining thereto thence running North half a (4°) degree East Eleven chains to Union Avenue and continuing the same course Seventy three and a half chains to the centre of the abovesaid Division Avenue-to this place the line being the centre of the Page 216. road-then taking an offset of Fifty seven (57) links Easterly making the road thence about Fifty chains to the Portion Road on the East side of a certain fence and the whole width of the same on the land of Mowbray W. Terry--the said herein laid out Road being called Washington Avenue on said Diagram Given under our hands this 2d day of October 1863 Highway Release for Division Avenue. We the undersigned owners of land through which said crosses do hereby release all claims for damage in consideration of said highway being laid out by said Commissioners-Dated Waverly Sept. 28th 1863. Recorded by me Decr. 3d 1863 Benjn T. Hutchinson. Release for Washington Avenue. We the undersigned owning land through which the said Highway crosses do hereby release all claims for damage in consideration of said Highway being laid out by the commissioners Dated Waverly Sept 28th 1863. Recorded by me Decr 31st 1863 John G. Barrett L.S. Page 217. Highway at East Moriches. The undersigned commissioners of Highways of the Town of Brookhaven in the county of Suffolk, all the commissioners having been notified to meet at this time and place for the purpose, having met at East Moriches in said Town. to decide on the application of J. W. Pelletreau, H. T. Osborn-E. D. Topping, J. S. Havens and twelve other taxable inhabitants of the said Town for the laying out of the Road hereinafter described and having the consent and release of land through which the said road is to pass, from the owners thereof, which release is herewith recordedDo Order that a public highway Four Rods wide shall be and the same is hereby laid out, pursuant to the said application the centre whereof is the following described viz. commencing near the Riverhead Road at its junction with the Post Road in East Moriches and running North Seventy seven and a half (771°) degrees West until it strikes the Ox Head Road (so called) then North Eighty Seven and a half (874) degrees West until it strikes the West line of lands belonging to Jesse W. Pelletreau-then South Seventy Six and a half (764°) degrees West until it strikes the Meeting House Road so called-it being the Highway running Northerly from the Presbyterian Church in Centre Moriches -the said New Road hereby laid out connecting the said Meeting House Road with the Post Road in East Moriches being about one mile and a half in length and through unimproved land. Given under our hands this 23d day of March 1863 Recorded Decr 31st 1863 Posted Jany 15th 1864 By me Benjn T. Hutchinson clerk John P. Mills ) Commissioners of Highways. Briant N. Overton ( Release for the above Highway. Application having been made to the commissioners of Highways of the Town of Brookhaven to lay out a Highway through certain unimproved lands belonging to us commencing near the Riverhead Road at its junction with the Post Road in Moriches and running N. 77 W. until it strikes the Oxhead Road (so called) thence N. 87 W. until it strikes the West line of lands belonging to J. W. Pelletreau thence S. 76 W. until it strikes the meeting house road-the width of Four Rods & the whole length about one and a half miles. Now therefore in consideration of the laying out of said Highway we do hereby release all claims to damages by reason thereof or of the laying out and opening the same. Page 218. Witness our hands and seals this 6th March 1863. S. S. Stanbrough L.S. Road District, No. 51, West of Bellport. We the undersigned two of the commissioners of Highways of the Town of Brookhaven (all having been notified) having met to make alterations in Road Districts do hereby order that the Road Districts No. (51) Fifty one and annexed to District No. (20) Twenty is hereby set apart as before and to take the same number as before No. 51 Fifty one-to include to the original bounds on the Country Road and to work Munsell's Road to Robinson's road-and Robinson's Road to the Horseblock Road, and the Horseblock road from said junction Westerly to the L. I. R. Road. Highway Patchogue to Mott's Mills-Surveyed Town of Brookhaven-Whereas a Highway leading from the Village of Patchogue to Mott's Mills near Canaan in said Town, now used as a public highway was laid out on the 20th day of March 1822 as recorded in Book D. page 186 but not sufficiently described of Record, and whereas afterwards on the 28th Decr. 1855 as recorded in Book E page 58 the Southern part of said Highway was surveyed and described as far North as the Northeast corner of the land of Eunice Jennings-Now therefore we the undersigned Commissioners of Highways in and for said Town. of Brookhaven, all of the said Commissioners having been duly notified to attend and deliberate on the subject matter of this order-Do hereby order that the remainder of said Road from Jennings' land to Mott's Mills be ascertained described and entered of Record in the Clerk's office of said Town according to a survey which has been made under our direction as follows viz. commencing where the said Record of Survey of Decr. 28th 1855 ended at the Northeast corner of Jennings' land and running Northerly-Courses and distances as follows viz. ch L 1st Course North 20° West 4. 50-Austin Roe's fence on Eastern side at beginning being 8 links in. |