Township of Scotch Plains, NJ Charter Supplement Laws of 1889, Chapter XII

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the part of the Township of Westfield, in the County of Union, described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the east and west branches of Green Brook, in the line between Somerset and Union Counties, thence up the west branch of said brook as it runs in the line of said counties, to a turn or bend of said branch, on the northwest side of the valley road leading to Springfield, said turn or bend of said branch being forty links northwest from the northwest end of formerly the center of an arch of a stone bridge (now a flat wooden bridge); thence along the northwest side of said valley road, as the needle pointed in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, north, forty-two degrees and thirty minutes east, six chains and eighty links, to the northern angle of said road and the road leading from Scotch Plains to New Providence; thence along the northwest side of said valley road north, fifty-six degrees east, fourteen chains and fifty links to the line of the Township of Fanwood, in the middle of the east branch of Green Brook, eighty links distant, on a course bearing north, seventy-five degrees east, from the center of a spring in the front of formerly Humphrey M. Drake's house, now Warren Ackerman's; thence down the middle of said branch as it runs, to the place of beginning, being the same tract of land that was annexed to the said Township of Westfield by an act entitled ''An act to alter a part of the boundary line between the Townships of Westfield and New Providence, in the County of Essex, approved March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one," be and the same is hereby set off from the said Township of Westfield, in the County of Union, and annexed to and made part of the Township of Fanwood, in said county.