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	Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America"
		De Witt, a member of a prominent New York family, was surveyor general of the state for fifty years.
		De Witt made surveying and cartography his life's work, but his interest in science was more extensive.
		De Witt was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1790.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/franklin/dewitt.htm (213 words)

	Simeon De Witt
		Simeon De Witt was born in 1756, one of the fourteen children of Dr. Andries De Witt and Jannetje Vernooy of Ulster County.
		Simeon De Witt's residence along Court Street was listed on the census of 1790.
		Simeon De Witt died in Ithaca December 1834 at the age of seventy-nine.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/d/sdewitt.html (861 words)

	HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF DEWITT
		DE WITT.--MOSES DE WITT.--the subject of this sketch was a descendant from an ancient, illustrious and honorable family of Holland, who at an early period emigrated to New York, a branch of which settled in Orange County.
		The family mansion of the De Witts, had been built as a sort of castle, for defense against the Indians, and during the old French war, and the war of the Revolution, had been strongly fortified by rows of palisades and other defenses, the walls being of stone, and of immense thickness.
		DE WITT.--This town was originally a part of the township of Manlius, and was set off from it in the spring of 1835, and named after Moses De Witt, Esq.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyononda/DEWITT/CLARKDEW.HTM (3281 words)

	Encyclopedia of Albany History. A Clio Media History Project. Department of History, University at Albany.
		Simeon De Witt later married for a third time to Susan Linn.
		The first portrait of Simeon De Witt by Ezra Ames was painted about 1804 and is in the collection of Rutgers University.
		The second portrait of De Witt was painted about 1830 and is attributed to Henry Inman and is in the collection of the Albany Institute of History and Art.
	www.albany.edu /history/eoah/entries/d/de_witt_simeon.htm (873 words)

	Simeon De Witt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simeon De Witt (1756 – 1834) was the Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1784 until his death.
		De Witt grew up in Wawarsing in Ulster County, New York, one of fourteen children of Jannetje Vernooy and his physician father Dr. Andries De Witt.
		In June 1778, having been trained as a surveyor by his uncle, James Clinton, De Witt was appointed as assistant to the Geographer and Surveyor of the Army Colonel Robert Erskine and contributed to a number of historically significant maps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simeon_De_Witt (446 words)

	NYNY 1810-1814
		The State Senate passes a resolution calling for Governeur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Simeon De Witt, William North, Thomas Eddy, and Peter B. Porter to be appointed commissioners to explore routes for a canal across the state, and to recommend improvements to Onondaga Lake.
		New York mayor De Witt Clinton, along with fellow canal commissioner Thomas Eddy and his son, leave New York for Albany by steamboat.
		De Witt Clinton's party arrives at the outlet of Onondaga Lake.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1810.html (5472 words)

	De Witt Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was based on his earlier cartography, chronicled some of the changes (particularly along the waterfront) in the Albany landscape since his earlier work, marked political subdivisions (wards), and included blocks of speculative streets that had not yet been laid out.
		The first likeness of the De Witt map of 1790 is taken from an engraving by W. Pease as it appeared in Arthur J. Weise, The History of the City of Albany, New York (Albany, 1884).
		Entitled "Plan of the City of Albany Surveyed by Simeon De Witt," it is best preserved locally in the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/map/mapdewitt.html (383 words)

	The Building Of The Erie Canal
		Morris communicated his project to Simeon De Witt in 1803, by whom it was made known to James Geddes in 1804.
		In pursuance of a recommendation by the committee, a resolution unanimously passed both houses, directing the surveyor-general, Simeon De Witt, to cause an accurate survey to be made of the various routes proposed for the contemplated communication.
		De Witt Clinton, having just before been elected to the chief magistracy of the State and being president of the Board of Canal Commissioners, enjoyed the high satisfaction of attending, with his associates, on the auspicious occasion.
	www.multied.com /documents/EirieCanal.html (1807 words)

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		Simeon tells of his thoughts about returning to studies, his thoughts on the war, and his comparison of females to Loadstones.
		Simeon tells John that he would like to know more about what is going on with him and his old friends (Lansing, Taylor, Simeon).
		Simeon argues that the Dutch that studies Theology but didn’t study Nature should not try to refute the claims made by the [scientists] without first removing their own prejudices.Simeon gives reasons why shin-curtains are subject to damage during the cold weather.
	tabula.rutgers.edu /special_collections/bogart/bogartfindingaid.htm (1331 words)

	Simeon De Witt
		DE WITT, Simeon, surveyor, born in Ulster County, New York, 25 December, 1756; died in Ithaca, New York, 3 December, 1834.
		De Witt it was long believed we were indebted for the extraordinary classical names of Carthage, Pompey, Sempronius, etc., given to various townships of the state.
		In 1796 De Witt was nominated surveyor general of the United States, but.
	www.famousamericans.net /simeondewitt (480 words)

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		Simeon De Witt and Edmund Marsh Blunt were among the leading American map makers during this period, and much of their work focused on New York and Long Island.
		Isaac Hulse, "Map of the Town of Brookhaven, in the County of Suffolk," 1797.
		Simeon De Witt, A Map of the State of New York, 1802 [southern Sheet].
	www.sunysb.edu /libmap/ch3.htm (252 words)

	A Map of the State of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simeon De Witt was Surveyor General of the State of New York between 1784 and 1834.
		He was a pioneer in American cartography, and made numerous contributions to public life in New York.
		De Witt’s 1802 Map of the State of New York reflects the intensive surveying of uspstate New York that was conducted during the preceding ten years, much of it under De Witt’s oversight.
	www.sunysb.edu /libmap/DeWitt.htm (175 words)

	History of Rodman, NY
		As is fully narrated in another chapter, the town now called Rodman was originally a part of the historic Macomb purchase, and of that portion thereof afterward known as the Black river tract, the proprietors of which caused the survey and description to be made for the purposes of facilitating settlement.
		In 1802 Simeon De Witt published a survey and map of New York state, east of the pre-emption line, in which he designated this town as Orpheus.
		The soil generally is a stony, gravelly loam, a character in a measure indicated by the presence of at least three sulphur springs, but the latter are of no special importance among the natural features of the town.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/rodman-ny.htm (5281 words)

	Geren Family
		A deed of Conveyance from Stockley Donelson to Hyram Geran was proved in open court by the oath of Ananias MCoy a witness thereto.
		Notes for SIMEON C. Simeon C. and his second wife Elizabeth F. are buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Bradley Co. TN Children of SIMEON GEREN and ELIZABETH HUMPHREY are: i.
		SIMEON FRANCIS5 GEREN (HIRAM M.4, ISAAC3, HIRAM2, JOSEPH1 GEREN/GUERIN) was born March 03, 1848 in Knox County TN, and died September 23, 1926 in Bradley County TN.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/jamestown/47/geren.html (4569 words)

	Everything about Abreviatura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Igualmente en las formas exteriores de las religiones semíticas como la asiria y fenicia, en la hindú y en las indoeuropeas, como la greco-latina, impera el símbolo pues en ellas se dio la representación de los fenómenos de la naturaleza personificados en seres mitológicos que terminaron por encarnar los valores morales de la sociedad.
		Entre otros se empleaban símbolos de unión o reunión como los peces de bronce o cristal encontrados en las catacumbas de Roma y que se entregaban a los bautizados para que los llevaran colgados del cuello.
		Simeon De Witt (1756-1834) was the Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1784 until his death, a time of rapid expansion into the Indian lands of the central and western New Y
	abreviatura.es.wikimiki.org (4343 words)

	History of Adams, NY
		During the months of April and May, previous to this division, the proprietors employed Benjamin Wright to survey the entire tract (the eleven towns, or the Black river tract) into townships, and as he pro ceeded with the work the worthy surveyor made notes of the character of the region through which he traveled.
		Paul, D'Estaing, De Forest and O. De Grasse Greene (late county clerk), were grandsons of Charles Greene, the pioneer.
		Indeee in 1807 the inhabitants having requisite property qualifications numbered 163 thus indicating at least 500 population, and it was not surprising, therefore, that the creation of a new town in this part of the county (then Oneida) should be desired.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/adams-ny.htm (12260 words)

	Memoir of De Witt Clinton
		Charles Clinton, the son of James, and the grandfather of De Witt Clinton, was born in the county of Longford, in Ireland, in 1690.
		Clinton married Miss Mary De Witt, a young lady of extraordinary merit, whose ancestors had emigrated from Holland, and whose very name proclaims the high respectability of their connexions.
		DE WITT CLINTON was born on the second day of March, 1769, at Little Britain, his father's residence in Orange County.
	www.history.rochester.edu /canal/bib/hosack/Memoir.html (14879 words)

	New York Archives Erie Canal Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thomas Eddy, the company’s treasurer, and Jonas Platt, state senator from the Western District, enlisted De Witt Clinton, the former mayor of New York City, to secure a resolution in the New York Assembly.
		De Witt Clinton had been mayor of New York City and was a leading Democratic-Republican in the state senate.
		Simeon De Witt was the state surveyor general.
	www.archives.nysed.gov /projects/eriecanal/ErieEssay/natsup.html (463 words)

	History of Queens County
		Lynott, one of whose daughters by a former husband became the wife of the celebrated Simeon De Witt.
		Abraham Bloodgood was for years a councilman of the city, was a member of the convention that accepted the constitution of the United States, and one of the famous ten who, in the old Vanden Heyden house, founded the Democratic party of the State.
		During the popularity of De Witt Clinton a vote of the citizens at a public meeting named the village Clintonville; but the old name still clung to it, and when, in 1854, a post- office was established it was given the old familiar title.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Queens/history/flushing.html (16692 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Greenwich Village, by Anna Alice Chapin.
		With the proceeds of the excellent deals which De Lancey made for him, he then proceeded to cut the swathe for which he was by temperament and attributes so well fitted.
		De Lancey boasted politely but openly that he and Sir Peter had twice as much influence in England as had Clinton, which was probably quite true.
		After the Revolution some of the De Lanceys lost their lands because of their loyalty to the Crown, but in Sir Peter's time the sun shone for those who stood by the King.
	ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/9/0/16907/16907-h/16907-h.htm (17927 words)

	The Field Notes of Col. Maxwell edited by John Robortella
		Soon after Massachusetts became possessed of the pre-emption right by deed of cession from New York, he (Phelps) resolved upon being interested in the purchase of one million acres; and for this purpose associated himself with Judge Sullivan, Messrs.
		Ellicott's survey map was procured by Simeon De Witt, the state's surveyor general.
		De Witt, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and formally adopted as the final word on the location of the Pre-emption Line.
	www.crookedlakereview.com /articles/101_135/131spring2004/131robortella.html (9546 words)

	Erie Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Our object was to balance the opposing political parties as nearly as possible, and to combine talents, influence, and wealth in constituting this board; and as De Witt Clinton was then a member of the senate, possessing a power influence over the dominant party in the state, it was considered by Mr.
		Next morning, I moved to insert the names of Gouverneur Morris, De Witt Clinton, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Simeon De Witt, William North, Peter B. Porter, and Thomas Eddy, who were unanimously agreed to in the senate, and the concurrent resolution was on the same day, unanimously adopted in the Assembly.
		After discussion, a resolution was then passed, approving the object, and appointing a committee, consisting of De Witt Clinton, Thomas Eddy, Cadwallader D. Colden, and John Swartwout, to prepare and circulate a memorial to the legislature in favour of the Erie Canal.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/history/eriecanal/index.htm (6104 words)

	STREETSCAPES/The Commissioners' Plan of 1811; Are Manhattan's Right Angles Wrong? - New York Times
		Three influential New Yorkers -- John Rutherfurd, Gouverneur Morris and Simeon De Witt -- were given power to establish a permanent system.
		De Witt, a surveyor, had drafted military maps in the Revolutionary War and was working with Morris on the Erie Canal project.
		The grid idea was already popular in other cities -- even the baroque diagonals of Washington were overlaid on a right-angled crisscross of streets.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5D6123FF930A15753C1A9639C8B63 (605 words)

	New York Archives Erie Canal Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is difficult to name the originator of the idea of a canal between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.
		Of these, De Witt Clinton alone is preeminently linked with the Erie Canal.
		De Witt Clinton was elected to his fourth term as governor in 1826.
	www.archives.nysed.gov /projects/eriecanal/ErieEssay/dc.html (718 words)

	SCHOPFER, ART, PLAN, AND FURNISHING OF A CITY
		On the broad avenues the street lamps should bear the numbers of the houses before which they stand, as it is impossible at night for a cabman to make out the number of a house across an intervening sidewalk forty yards in width.
		On the Place de la Concorde the ornamentation of this fine square is completed by a number of posts, each having two lamps, fixed to a ship's prow, which latter is copied from the arms of the City of Paris.
		The Legislature, on April 3, 1807, appointed Governor[sic] Morris, Simeon de Witt and John Rutherford, Commissioners of Streets and Roads in the City of New York with--"exclusive power to lay out streets, roads and public squares...." The city plan established by the Commissioners is substantially that which exists to-day between Houston 155 streets.
	www.library.cornell.edu /Reps/DOCS/schopfer.htm (4637 words)

	Primary Historical Documents & Maps - Geographers Department, Continental Army, 1777-1783 - Revolutionary War
		Please to accept my Thanks for the Communication of your Contrivance, which I am persuaded will answer the Purpose where ever the Bottom is so hard as to prevent the Points being press'd into the Ground by the passing Ship before the Resistance shall become great enough to force the upper Points thro' her Bottom.
		In pursuance of your desire, I beg leave to lay before you a state of the Surveying Department, for the purpose of its being adjusted as shall be thought proper, by the Honble.
		De Witt, who has been long and constantly in the Office, [and of whose abilities I have] heard [Mr.
	www.armygeographer.org /documents_maps/index.htm (7699 words)

	mappa_mundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is an evolutionary view - sometimes with a teleological emphasis that systems tend to increase in complexity while parts of those systems which could be manifested as things die and decay.
		Ornamatrix (for Sol le Witt), a floor work, forms an architectonic latticework.
		Ornamatrix is a feminized masculine structure - Sol le Witt in drag.
	www.simeon-nelson.com /MappaMundi/MappaMundi.html (481 words)

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