Survey of the Loonenburg New Purchase Road

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11

Identifier: MAP 2020.0011

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Scope and Contents

Map is a survey composed by John D. Spoor for Isaac Northrop and Company in 1801 showing a newly surveyed road leading northwest from the edge of the surveyed lots of the proposed Village of Athens. The Road is shown as commencing at the river and proceeding westward through the surveyed lots (now modern Second Street) and then proceeding along a route northwest (along the route of modern Schoharie Turnpike) towards the home of Johannis Hallenbeck. Description notes that at the Hallenbeck house the new road intersects with the old Loonenburg Path which was the prevous thoroughfare eliminated in Spoor's 1801 Surveys. Map is of note because it alternately refers to the locale portrayed as Loonenburg, Athens, and Northrop's Purchase all within the same document - thus embodying the rapid transformation being undertaken in the years immediately preceding the incorporation of the Village of Athens in 1805. Two homes are shown on the map - that of Johannis Hallenbeck and another home described as that possibly of Andrew Slover(?).