The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-30
PROF. COOKS old deed.
1t Wasn't Thought to Be
Worth Much When
He Took It,
BUT IT STEALS NEW YORK BAY.
The Terminal Railway Company's
Great Scheme on the Lower
Jersey City and Bay
onne Shores.

A deed which was placed on record In
in the County Registers office yesterday
consummates one of the biggest of recent
railroad deals 1t is the elimination OF
the movement, made in the Legislature
two years ago, to extend the ex-
terror filing line from the shore
front off the southern end of
Jersey City and off Bayonne, to deep
water. Senator Edwards was chairman
of a Joint Committee appointed by the
Legislature to take testimony and re-
port as to the advisability of making the
where regarded at the time as in railroad
interests. The following deed shows
it,
William w. Weigley ct ux
New Jersey Terminal Railway.
Deed dated -~-42t. "a, 1890.
This indenture, made the oath day Of
September, in the year 1890, between VIII
liam w Weigley, of the city and county
of Philadelphia, in the State of PennsYl~
yania. attorney -at-law, and Mary f.. his
wife, parties of the first part, and the
New Jersey Terminal Railway, corpor-
alton duly incorporated under the laws
second part
Witnesseth that the said party Of the
first part for and in consideration Of 81
lawful money of the United States Of
America to them in hand paid the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged and Of
other good and valuable considerations
have granted, bargained, sold, aliened,
remised, released, conveyed and confirm
ed, and by these presents do grant, bar.
gain, sell. alien, remise, release, convey
and confirm unto the said New Jersey
Terminal Railway party of the second
part, its successors and assignS:-
All that certain lot or parcel of land,
reef or island situate, lying and being in
the Bay or Harbor of New York, in the
County of Hudson and State of New Jer-
sey, and known as Oyster Island, and
which is bare at low-water mark, said
island being oblong in outline; excepting
and reserving thereout tract situate
easterly of line north % degrees and SO
chains and "a lines of the said island,
which said tract is bounded westerly by
the aforesaid diameter, easterIy by the
water of New York Bay or Harbor, north
erly by line drawn at right angles to
the aforesaid diameter, and from q
point therein distant 230 feet southerIy
from its northerly extremity to the waters
OF said bay or harbor. and southerly by q
line drawn easterly from said diameter to
the aforesaid waters at right angles to
buG dlOIeSdlQ uldL16h6E db HUCL u Q1SldliGk5i
from the said northerly boundary line as
will make the lot or parcel of land. reef
oT island hereby granted to the New -Isr-
sey Terminal Railway consist OF aud in
ciude ten acres and no more, the said
tract hereby excepted and reserved con-
taining six acres and fifty-eighth one
hundfedths OF an acre more or less, also
excepting and reserving to the parties OF
the first part all riparian rights and
rights TO land under water in front OF
the said above reserved tract, and all
riparian rights and rights to land
under water between the above-men-
toned island and the main land vest
erly therefrom, being part of the lands
which George H. Cook and Mary H. Cook,
his wife, by deed dated the ninth day of
September, 1889, granted and conveyed to
the said William w. Weigley in fee and
which also the said Mary H. Cook, ex-
ecutrix of the last will and testament Of
the said George H Cook, deceased, and
individually by deed bearing date the
fifteenth day of September, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
granted, bargained, sold. aliened, re-
missed, released and confirmed unto the
said William w. Weigiey party hereto
of the first part, his heirs and assigns.
Together with all and singular the tene-
ments, hereditaments and appurtenances
hereunto belonging or in anywise apper-
tanning. and the reyisions, remainders,
rents, issues and prontS thereof, excep6
as above reserved.
And also all the estate, right, title, in
terest, dover. right of dover, property
possession, claim aud demand, as well in
law as in equity, of the said parties of the
first part OF, in or to the above described
premises, and every part and parcel
thereof, with the appurtenances, except
as hereinbefcre reserved.
To have and TO hold all and singular
the above granted premises together
with all the appurtenances unto the said
party of the second part, its successors
and assigns to and for it's and their own
proper use, benefit and behoof forever.
In witness whereof the parties of the
first part have hereunto set their hands
and seals the day and year first above
written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the pres
ence of Thomas j. Hunt and l.. M. Lem
non by William w. Weigley and Mary f.,
his wife. Duly attested by Thomas i.
Hunt, Commissioner of Deeds in Phila-
delphia.
Prof. Cook was the State Geologist. He
purchased Robbins Reef and Oyster
Island ten years old from the East Jersey
Proprietors. who claimed it by royal
grant. At that time it was thought that
the reef and the island were under water
and part of New York anyhow. Old
maps showing the reef and the island
covered with trees were produced and
put on file, and the Interstate Boundary
Commissioners have just decided that
both are in New Jersey.
SO after having lain dormant for ten
years, the professor title is established,
and his grantees have Just sold it to the
New Jersey Terminal Railway Company,
which expects to build great line Of
docks out to deep water line and estab-
lish warehouses there.