The Thornton Line is a boundary line or partition line surveyed in 1696 through the
Province of New Jersey
The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1783. The province had originally been settled by Europeans as part of New Netherland but came under English rule after ...
during the colonial period, separating the territory into two proprietary colonies: the
Province of East Jersey and the
Province of West Jersey. New Jersey was divided into two proprietary colonies after the Duke of York's 1664 grant of the colony to
Sir George Carteret and
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, and the sale of rights under the
Quintipartite Deed in 1676. The Thornton Line was an attempt to replace the errors of the
Keith line (1686) and its amendment the
Coxe–Barclay Line
The Coxe–Barclay Line was a boundary line or partition line drawn through the Province of New Jersey during the colonial period, dividing it into the Province of West Jersey and the Province of East Jersey. Surveyor General George Keith survey ...
(1688) which was disowned by the East Jersey proprietors in 1695. While it appears on Worlidge's map of the two Jersey colonies, it was never formally adopted.
[Worlidge, John. ''A New Mapp of East and West New Jersey being an exact survey Taken by Mr John Worlidge''. (London, c. 1696).]
See also
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Lawrence Line
The Lawrence Line was a boundary line or partition line drawn through the Province of New Jersey during the colonial period, dividing it into the Province of West Jersey and the Province of East Jersey. The line was created by surveyor John Law ...
(1743)
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New York – New Jersey Line War
References
Pre-statehood history of New Jersey
History of the Thirteen Colonies
Borders of New Jersey
1696 establishments in New Jersey
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