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The page title uses a hyphen between New York and New Jersey, but the first mention in the article uses a slash. Which form is correct? -- Merovingian (t) (c) 16:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Anyone have any idea what the stuff in the graphic is talking about? We don't have any mention of who Hendrick Decker is, why we should care about him or his brother Jan, or how they relate to the Line War. Why is this sign where it is? — Cleared as filed. 20:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Why isn't there a category for other border disputes, like the Ohio/Michigan conflict and the Mass./RI dispute? NoSeptember 20:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
There's another interesting dispute that occurred in the 1600s between Thomas Mayhew and the Duke of York (for whom the Province then State of New York was named), but I'm not aware of it having a stirring name like the "New Jersey Line War".
Mayhew purchased the islands just south of Cape Cod from the Natives in 1643, called today the Elizabeth Islands, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. When the Duke of York was given his huge grant in 1665, it included the lands Mayhew owned. This was a frequent cause of early US land disputes - overlapping grants, patents, and deeds. The dispute was settled in 1671, but Mayhew had to submit to juristiction by the Province of New York. The islands were finally given to Massachusetts in 1691. The WP article on the history of the County of Dukes County (that's the name of Martha's Vineyard's County .^_^.) glides quickly over this interesting historical detour, but a more thorough treatment would be fun to read. Does anyone with a history background know more about this episode? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes_County,_Massachusetts Wordreader ( talk) 01:17, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I restored the reference to Liberty Island as its omission is not an improvement. As the reference (rephrased to exclude the possibility that someone thinks there is an implicit legal claim} indicates, there has been argumentation (maybe some tongue-in-cheek), yet all this is further explored in the Liberty Island article. Thus the reference is entirely appropriate and enriching. Ekem 23:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
As determined via Google Maps, the coordinates of the original points are 41.666667N 75.05345W (western) and 41.0N 73.8935W (eastern). However, I'm not sure that these values are absolutely correct. There appears to be some discrepency between the positions as plotted on google maps and the map data. Confluence points don't quite match up with real-world locations. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 23:28, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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The page title uses a hyphen between New York and New Jersey, but the first mention in the article uses a slash. Which form is correct? -- Merovingian (t) (c) 16:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Anyone have any idea what the stuff in the graphic is talking about? We don't have any mention of who Hendrick Decker is, why we should care about him or his brother Jan, or how they relate to the Line War. Why is this sign where it is? — Cleared as filed. 20:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Why isn't there a category for other border disputes, like the Ohio/Michigan conflict and the Mass./RI dispute? NoSeptember 20:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
There's another interesting dispute that occurred in the 1600s between Thomas Mayhew and the Duke of York (for whom the Province then State of New York was named), but I'm not aware of it having a stirring name like the "New Jersey Line War".
Mayhew purchased the islands just south of Cape Cod from the Natives in 1643, called today the Elizabeth Islands, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. When the Duke of York was given his huge grant in 1665, it included the lands Mayhew owned. This was a frequent cause of early US land disputes - overlapping grants, patents, and deeds. The dispute was settled in 1671, but Mayhew had to submit to juristiction by the Province of New York. The islands were finally given to Massachusetts in 1691. The WP article on the history of the County of Dukes County (that's the name of Martha's Vineyard's County .^_^.) glides quickly over this interesting historical detour, but a more thorough treatment would be fun to read. Does anyone with a history background know more about this episode? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes_County,_Massachusetts Wordreader ( talk) 01:17, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I restored the reference to Liberty Island as its omission is not an improvement. As the reference (rephrased to exclude the possibility that someone thinks there is an implicit legal claim} indicates, there has been argumentation (maybe some tongue-in-cheek), yet all this is further explored in the Liberty Island article. Thus the reference is entirely appropriate and enriching. Ekem 23:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
As determined via Google Maps, the coordinates of the original points are 41.666667N 75.05345W (western) and 41.0N 73.8935W (eastern). However, I'm not sure that these values are absolutely correct. There appears to be some discrepency between the positions as plotted on google maps and the map data. Confluence points don't quite match up with real-world locations. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 23:28, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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