The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
NOTICE OF SALE.
The BoOnton Water Company.

STATES Tor tne DlsLrlcC OF New Jersey in q GER
tain cause in which the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, as Trustee. is complainant
and the Boonton Water Company and John
e. Conover, Trustee. are defendants. and dated
the 18th day of December, 1885, l, Thomas N.
McCarter, Jr.. the Special Master in and by
said decree appointed for that purpose, will
sell At public auction, to the highest bidder
of the Court House of the County of Morris,
at Morristown, in the State of New Jersey. on
the Bird day Of February 1900,
the following property, premises and franchises
described in said decree as follows, (the said
peaHg ene OF .ne sag
in the mortgage dated June LIST, 1894, fore
closed in and by said decree. and the words
said water company and its in the said
description referring to said Boonton Water
Company that is to say.
All those certain tracts or parcels of land
and premises hereinafter particularly describ-
ed, situate, lying and being in the Townships
of PeQuannock and Montville in the County of
Morris and State of New Jersey, as described
in deed from Lewis VanDuyne and Mary M.
VanDuyne, his wife. to the said The Boonton
Water Company, dated the sixth day of
July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three and
recorded in the Morris County Clerks Office
in Book d. IA of Deeds for said County on
pages 8, ETC., and therein described as follows:
THE FIRST TRAcT;-In Pequannock Town
ship, being all that part of the land convey 4
by John w. Fredericks and others to Lewis
VanDuyne by deed dated Feb. 28th, 1893, and
recorded in the Morris County Records of
cepted in deed from Lewis VanDuyne and
wife to William F. Hunkele, dated Marcn
29th. 1898. and recorded in the Morris County
Record of Deeds in Book A. IA. on pgs. l64,
ETC., and therein described, BEGINNING at q
stake near the bridge in front of the Brook
Valley Store and Postoffice building, and in
the road leading from boonton to Butler and
distant eighteen and forty eight hundredths
feet from the south west corner of said build
ing, also distant thirtytwo and seventeen
hundredths feet from the southeast corner of
said building; thence Cd Along said road
crossing the bridge and brook, south nine de-
grees ffty-one minutes east ninety-nfne feet;
thence CD Continuing along said road the next
five courses) south twenty degrees fifty
minutes west one hundred and thirty two feet;
90 south f1ftytw degrees forty-seven minutes
west two hundred feet; "a south sixty degrees
twenty-five minutes west one hundred feet;
% south forty-four degrees fifty nine minutes
west one hundred feet; co south thirty nine
and twenty-five feet; 90 thence leaving the
road and running along Ephraim B. Dolan's
line north twenty three degrees two minutes
west three hundred and seventeen feet to
rock in the meadow; CD thence along another
of Dolan's lines south fifty degrees west six
teen hundred and thirty-three feet to corner
In line of lands of John III. Vreeland one hun
dred and forty-six feet westerly from the
middle of the road and on the east bank of the
brook; thence 90 crossing Stony Brook north
forty-two degrees thirty minutes west three
hundred and ninety-six feet to a corner in
John II. Vreeland's line two hundred and
thirty five feet easterly from the most south
westerly corner of the whole tract hereby con-
veyed; (l0) north fifty-three degrees forty five
minutes east five hundred and fifty feet CID
north forty-two degrees fifteen minutes east
four hundred and ninety-two and fivetenths
feet CID north fifty-two degrees thirty
minutes east six hundred and forty feet; Q3)
south eighty,six degrees thirty-two minutes
east eighty feet; Q4) north fifty degrees
twenty eight minutes east two hundred and
twenty-five feet; Q5) south seventy-four de-
grees nineteen minutes east one one hu1d d ard
fifty degrees ffty-four minutes east three hun
bred feet; I'D north eighty-two degrees forty
one minutes east one hundred and eighty; nine
twenty-one and seventy-seven hundredths
acres; also excepting any other land of the
said homestead farm that may be flowed by
water and to be bounded by a line having an
elevation of two feet above said water when
the dam of the Boonton Water Company shall
be built. All of which boundary lines are
shown in a general way by the map herewith
connected
SECOND TRACT:-In Pequannock Township
and being the same land conveyed to Lewis
YanDuyne by Ephra,m B.. Doland by deed
dated March 18th, 1898, and recorded in the
Morris County Record of deeds in Book A. IA,
pig. 81 ETC., and therein described as follows:
"Beginning at rock in the meadow, corner of
land this day reserved in conveyance by Lewis
VanDuyne to William f. Hunkele; thence
running I'd along the division line of said
Ephraim b. Doland and Frederick Fredericks'
land. south fifty degrees west sixteen hundred
and thirty three feet to a corner on the east
side of Stony Brook in line of land of John H.
Vreeland; (2) along Vreeland's line south
forty-two degrees thirty minutes east, one
hundred aud forty-six feet to the middle of the
road leading from BoOnton to Butler; 90
along said road north thirty-one degrees
twenty minutes east ninety-three feet; (4)
north fifty-two degrees twenty-four minutes
east five hundred feet; 90 north seventy-nine
degrees ten minutes east five hundred and
seventy feet to point in the center of the road
twenty-five feet westerly from a stone
monument on the southwest side of the
road leading to Whitehall CGlen yiew)
CO. south forty-five degrees forty minutes east
TWENTY-FIVE feet to said stone monument; CD
along the middle of the road north thirty.two
degrees seventeen minutes east two hundred
and sixty four feet; (SO still along said road
north thirty-f1ve degrees eleven minutes east
two hundred feet; 80 thencelleavtng said road
north twenty-five degrees fifty-five minutes
west three hundred and seventeen feet to the
place of beginning: containing eight and
ninety hundredthS acres. together with
the right to fill in any point of land on the
east side of the road that may be covered
with water when The Boonton Water Com
pany' 6 dam is built.
THIRD TRACT;-In Pequannock Township.
and being the same land conveyed to Lewis
VanDuyne by John FL. Vreeland and wife by
deed dated March Goth, 1893, and recorded in
the Morris County Record of Deeds in Book Y
10, pig. $50 ETC., and therein described as LILY
ing on each side of Stony Brook and bounded
on the east by the road leading from Boonton
to Butler, on the south by land of Henry j.
Vreeland and William Vreeland, on the west
by line running from the southerly side to
the northerly side of the farm of said John H.
Vreeland, at an elevation of six hundred and
thirty seven feet above tide water (the water
in the brook in front of the Brook Valley Store
and Post Office being now at an elevation of
six hundred and thirty-three feet). This last
mentioned line to be the westerly boundary
of the tract to be conveyed. and bounded on
the north by lands belonging to the heirs of
Frederick Fredericks excepting always q
a roadway or lane where it is now located
leading from said public road to the house of
John III. Vreeland. which road 1t Is hereby
agreed that the party of the second part, his
heirs and assigns, shall forever maintain at an
elevation of at least two feet above the eleva-
ton of the water in the pond that may be
hereafter built said road to be at least twenty
five feet wide. said road leading from the
public road to John H. Vreeland's house shall
be public road from the aforesaid public
road the nearest point that will lead to the
island when the pond is built. Also excepting
all the land lying between the public road on
the east, high water mark of the pond on the
west, the land leading from the public road to
John II. Vreeland's house on the north, and
where the line of high water strikes the public
road north of the culvert or bridge on the
south. Also excepting the lot upon which
the blacksmith shop now stands on the north
side of said lane bounded on the east by said
public road, on the south by said road leading
to Vreeland's house, on the west by line
parallel with said public road and distant
therefrom westerly as far as the back of
the shop is distant therefrom on the
north by line running from the last line to
the public road and distant fifty feet northerly
from the north side of the blacksmith shop,
which last reserved lot the party of the second
part agrees to fill To the height of two feet
above the water in the pond when the dam is
built. Also to raise the shop and build stone
foundation hereunder and maintain said
so long as the said John III. Vree-
land lives and the party of the first part
agrees not to allow any-nuisance or anything
hat may contanlinate or impair the purity
of the water in the pond on any of the above
reservations. And 1t Is further agreed that If |
it becomes necessary to remove the barn now
owned and occupied by John H Vreeland. 1t
shall be removed by and at the expense of
the party of the second part to any place
designated by said John H. Yreeland upon