The Newtown bee., 1897-01-22

ibility, though each is entirely distiuct and diverse from the other-you now have them both, and are at liberty to se- lect for yourselves the more likely, or the more logical, according to the light, or faith, within you.
 After the foregoing preface, or intro- duction to our article, we now come to the consideration of. the 80 called :'earlier boundaries of our town, and where lo- cated."
 Let us begin on the westerly side of the township, at the meeting or union of the easterly boundary lines of Dan bury and New Fairfield, at point one third of mile southwestward- ly from the residence of John Coggs- well, running thence East by North, in straight line through
 THE SITE OF THE SAID BOUND ROCK, on the Sherman Hoa.estead, to the mid dle line of the Housatonic River three and three fifth miles, to point one and one.half miles northwardly from the meeting or union of the boundary lines on the westerly side of the Counties of New Haven and Ltchfield on the middle line of said river, in it's windings and turnipgs upstream, two and three tween New Milford and Brookfeld, the ice southwardly along said boundary line, three and one-third miles, to the boundary line of New Fairfield and Brookfield, two miles, to the point or place of beginning-includiDg all of what was once portion of Litchfeld county, now incorporated as part of our town, and including all of Long Meadow Hill School District, and part of Obtuse, all of the Mountain District, and most of the two Iron Works school districts and to- gether containing 5.14l 1-4 acres of land |, equal to eight and one-thirtieth square miles.
 The Danbury section is bounded and described as follows :-Beginning at the initial point on the westerly side of cur town, described in the New Milford DOT tion, thence southeriy along the bound- ary line
 BETWEEN DANBURY AND BRooKFIELD, two and one twelfth miles, to the Bethel boundary line, one and seventeen-twenty- fifths miles, thence due South along said last mentioned line. one fifth of mile, to the northerly boundary line of New town; thence North by West three and one-fifth miles to the said site of said Bound Rock on the said Sherman Home. stead, one and one half miles to the said initial point or place of beginning-in- cluding the Westerly part of the Center School District, part of Whisconier, and nearly all of the old Bound Swamp and Huckleberry Hill School District, and containing two thousand three hundred and twenty acres, or three and three quarters square miles-coming to us from Danbury.
 The Newtown portion or parcel is bounded and described as follows: Be- ginning at the site of the said Bound Rock on the Sherman Homestead, thence Southerly retracing the said boundary line on the Easterly side of Danbury section before mentioned, three and one fifth miles, to the northerly boundary line of Newtown. thence northeasterly along said last mentioned line, four miles to the middle line of the Housatonic River, where the boundary lines of New Haven and Litchfield counties meet, thence northwardly and westwardly, following the middle line of said river in It's
 WINDxlg9s AND TURNINGs UP STREAM. one and half miles to the southerly line of said New Milford section, herein be-
 
 fore described, thence West by South along the soatherly line of said New Milford section, two and one-trelfth