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Atlas
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1745
Map of Geo. Lockhart Patent |
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1745 Lockhart Patent
Lockhart and Tappan Patents
Province Boundaries, 1668-1774
1876 Harrington Twp 1891
Rockland County
1943 Rockleigh
1989
Rockleigh
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George
Lockhart Patent
drawn in 1745 by Philip Ver Planck
at the request of John and Resolvert Nagels
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The
Lockhart Patent was granted by the province of New Jersey. The track from Snedens Landing
[1] on the Hudson River wound up the palisades
through the hamlet of Rockland as Closter Road when traveling south
or Snedens Landing Road when traveling north. The track
connected the farms of "Old Closter" with the Hudson and by
river sloops to markets down river.
"By the
request of Resolvert Nagel and John Nagel have surveyed a Tract of
Land Sectuate lying and being in Orange County on he West Side of
Hudsons River which said Trackt of Land was formerly Confirmed to one
George Lockhart and is now belonging to Henry Ludlow and Mary his Wife
&c.
"Beginning at the north side of Barent Nagel and so running
northerly as the Road still goes to the house of Henry Ludlow [the Big
House], and along the south side of the house, so still running as the
Road goes down to Robert Sneden, so at the south side of the house and
on down to the Landing place free for all persons to load and
unload...." Book
A, Orangetown Records, April 30, 1745 Alice
M. Haagensen: Palisades & Snedens Landing, p170, Pilgrimage
Publishing, Tarrytown, NY, 1986.
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EXPLANATION
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The Oak Tree Markt with Letter L &c
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Henry Ludlows House
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Henry Ludlows Griss Mill
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Gabl Ludlow
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Mouth of Tappan river or Creek
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A Passage cut thro the Meadow and now Wholy Used to go up the Creek
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Sneedings house the fferry
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A heap of stones
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The lands in Question proposed by Barent Jansen
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The Lands in question proposed by Jacob Vallentine
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The Lands in Question proposed by William Verdon
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John Nagels houses
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Resolvert Nagels houses
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Access
to Tappan Town was along the Spar Kill on Sparkill Road (now Central
Avenue). Kings Highway (Tappan Road in Northvale) is shown running north
and south between Closter and Tappan Town.
Also shown is the Spar
Kill
(Tappan Slote) which formed the north boundary of the Lockhart Patent as
far as the South Branch of the Sparkill. The location of the John Nagels
farmstead [12] on the east side of Closter Road suggests that the
farmstead on the west side of the road within the southern portion of
the Patent is that of Abraham A. Haring.
Facsimile map
made by James S. Haring, 1876,
in the collection of the Palisades Free Library,
Palisades, NY |
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Lockhart
Patent and Tappan Patent |
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Lockhart
and Tappan Patents superimposed on current map. (North to right).
Most
of that portion of the Lockhart Patent which fell within New Jersey
after the 1769-1774 Boundary Settlement comprises present day Rockleigh,
NJ, then called "Old Closter" or "Rockland".
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The
Rockland County Borders, 1668-1774 |
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New
York - New Jersey boundary lines are reconstructed by historian Claire
H. Tholl, 1976.*
*Wilfred
Blanch Talman, "How Things Began...in Rockland County and Places Nearby"
Rockland County Historical Society,
1977.
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The
Rockland County Borders 1668-1774,
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The top parallel line is the Gov. Dongan & Gov. Laurie Agreement of
1684 that met the Hudson at the mouth of the Tappan [Sparkill]
Creek, placing the entire Lockhart Patent in the Province of New
Jersey.
The middle parallel line is the random line of Wells &
Robinson of 1686 which included all of the Lockhart and Vervalen, Tappan
and Kakiat Patents in New York Province.
The bottom parallel line is the
New York "Pretense" Line of 1700-1719 which was so far south
to include Tenafly.
The heavier, slightly off parallel line is the
"Final Line" marked in 1774 and Agreed upon Oct. 7th, 1779.
The final boundary split the "Rockland Neighborhood" and
Tappan Town, but resulted in Harrington Township. The portion of Rockland
that lay within New York State became Palisades; the portion
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1876
Map of Harrington Township |
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The
"Rockland Neighborhood" also known as "Old
Closter" is shown as an unincorporated portion
of Harrington Township tucked beneath the NY-NJ State Line in this 1876
map.
On Snedens Landing Road landowners include (N to S): J. Moore
(East), Mrs
M.A. Cooper (West), L. Conklin (East), Jos DuBois (West), L. Moore
(East),
Newton Sneden (East), S. Beasley (West), Mrs. C.A. Sneden (East), J.D. Conklin
(East), B. Sloat (West), Jenkins Sloat (West), Saw Mill (East), Jacob Haring
(West).
On Central Road
landowners include: Jas. W. Gowdy (East), Thos. Warker (West).
On
Closter Road landowners include: Moses J. Taylor (West), Nich. Haring (West),
Gilbert & Knapp (East), Dr F. Morris (West).
Original map hangs in the Council Chamber of Rockleigh Borough Hall |
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1891
Map of Rockland County |
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1891
map of Rockland County that includes a portion of Harington
Township.
Labeled
are Closter Road, including Piermont Road - south and Snedens Landing
Road, and Central Road (Piermont Road - north. |
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This
1891 map of Rockland County shows landowners in adjacent Rockland,
Harrington Township, NJ.
Note the track from the Rockland Neighborhood to the "colored church"
in Skunk Hollow, a community of freed slaves.
On Snedens Landing Road landowners include (N to S): J. Moore (E), Mrs
Cooper (W), L. Conklin (E), C. DuBois (W), J. Moore (E), N. Sneden
(E), S. Beasley (W), S. Smith (W), Mrs. C. Sneden (E) [misplaced], S. Smith
(W), L.B. Snedecker [misplaced, should be L.B. Sneden], J. Sloat (E), J. Sloat (W), Saw Mill (E), J.N.
Haring (W).
On
Central Road (Piermont - north) landowners include: Jas. W. Gowdy
(E), J. Earley (W), H.G. Torrey (W).
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Closter Road (Piermont- south) landowners include: J. Sloat (W), J.
Vervelen (W), M. Sneden (E), Nich. Haring (W), Gilbert & Knapp (E),
Dr F. Morris (W).
F.W.
Beers, Atlas of the Hudson River Valley, Section 6:
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Rockleigh Borough 1943 |
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Nyack, NY Quadrangle (Southeast)
USGS, 1943 (Surveyed 1937, 1940) 1:31,860
http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=nyak43se.jpg&state=NY |
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In
1912 Northvale incorporated and included Rockland (Old Closter) as East
Northvale. With the incorporation of this last portion of Harrington
Township, the township ceased to exist. However, in 1923, East Northvale
seceded from Northvale as Rockleigh Borough, re-establishing it's
unique and traditional identity.
Most of
the twenty-four dwellings shown within Rockleigh Borough are pre 1900. (An
additional five dwellings, all pre 1900, are not included in this
quadrant.) The large structure shown on the Pegasus Club property is a
former airplane hanger removed from Roosevelt Field, NY, to serve as an
indoor Polo field. |
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Rockleigh Borough - 1989 |
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Scale
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In 1958, the St
Joseph's Village Orphanage opened on 80 acres. Commercial development
began during the 1960's with the development of the Rockleigh Office &
Technical Park - one of the first planned commercial parks in New
Jersey. In the 1989 maps, the black structures were surveyed in the mid
1960s and the purple structures are the result of an updated survey in
the late 1970s. The intervening decade produced a four-fold increase of
Office and Technical space. With 2-acre residential zoning, the
number of dwellings has increased modestly to about 65. |
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Scale
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This 1989
Map of
Rockleigh Borough shows the community to be about two-fifths
residential (mostly National Historic District), one
fifth office-technical, one-fifth public golf course, and one-fifth
protected open space.
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Written and
compiled by E. W. April, 2002 |
Background Music:
"Lorena"
Courtesy of Barry
Taylor
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