Resolve of March 9, 1877, Establishing Boundary between Weston and Wilton.

ESTABLISHING AND CONFIRMING THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF WESTON AND WILTON

Whereas, upon the petition of the selectmen of the towns of Weston and Wilton, in Fairfield County, it has been made to appear to this general assembly that, by the act or resolution of the general assembly incorporating the town of Wilton, passed in 1802, it was provided that the easterly boundary of said town shall commence at the southeasterly corner of the society of Wilton, and run thence north (twenty-two degrees thirty minutes west) six miles twenty-nine chains to the northeast monument dividing the towns of Reading, Ridgefield, and Norwalk; that said southeasterly and northeasterly corner bounds are well settled and duly marked, and no dispute has ever existed in regard to them; that a line run from said southeast bound in the direction and to the distance mentioned in said act leads to a point far distant and to the eastward of said northeast monument, and would include in the town of Wilton a large territory which has always been treated and recognized as embraced within the towns of Weston and Reading, and would not touch the town of Ridgefield; that, on the other hand, if a straight line were drawn between said southeasterly and northeasterly corner bounds, it would make the town of Reading and Weston respectively to embrace tracts of land over which they have never exercised nor claimed jurisdiction; that there is a permanent rock situated in a stream or millpond at the village of Georgetown so-called, between the supposed lines before mentioned, which rock is marked with lines crossing each other and with the letters N. F. R., which has been, from time beyond the memory of men now living, reputed to be the bound where the dividing line between the ancient towns of Fairfield and Reading intersected the boundary line of the ancient town of Norwalk, and, since the incorporation of the towns of Weston and Wilton, to be also the place of intersection of the boundary-lines of the town of Reading, Weston, and Wilton, and that a line running from said southeast bound of Wilton to the intersection of said cross-lines on said rock has, from time immemorial been generally reputed to be and has been generally recognized as the boundary line between said towns of Weston and Wilton; that said petitioners have caused said last-mentioned line to be surveyed as a straight line between said southeast bound and said rock, and have agreed on the same as a proper and true boundary line between said towns, but that doubts have been suggested whether the same is the lawful boundary, and embarassments arise from time to time, growing out of the same: therefore,

Resolved by this Assembly:

Sec. 1. That the boundary line between the towns of Weston and Wilton, in Fairfield County, is hereby declared to be, and is fixed, confirmed, and established as follows: viz: beginning at the southeasterly corner of the town of Wilton, at present marked by a heap of stones on a ledge on the westerly side of an old highway, and thence running northerly in a straight line to the point of intersection of said cross-lines upon said rock situated in the stream or millpond at the village of Georgetown, socalled, which rock is marked with the letters N.F.R. And the selectmen of said towns of Weston and Wilton shall cause suitable monuments to be erected and maintained on said line, at the joint expense of said towns and as required by law.

Sec. 2. This resolution shall not be so construed as to affect any pending suit, nor the title to any lands, nor any boundary line between adjoining proprietors of lands.

Approved, March 9, 1877.