Beginning at a point in the middle of the river Delaware dividing the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where the Nishisakawick Creek empties into the said river, in the county of Hunterdon, and state of New Jersey, and running thence in the courses of the lines dividing the townships of Alexandria, Kingwood, Franklin and Bethlehem, in the said county of Hunterdon, to a point in the south branch of the Raritan river at the village of Clinton; thence following the course of the lines dividing the townships of Bethlehem, Clinton and Franklin, in the said county of Hunterdon, to a point in the Musconetcong river, forming the division line between the counties of Hunterdon and Warren; thence following the courses of the said Musconetcong river, dividing the township of Bethlehem, in the said county of Hunterdon, from the township of Washington, in the said county of Warren, to the line dividing the township of Franklin and Washington, in the said county of Warren, and running thence in the courses of the said lines dividing the said townships of Franklin and Washington, to a point in the township lines dividing the townships of Franklin, Washington, Oxford and Harmony, in the said county of Warren; thence by the courses of the lines dividing the townships of Franklin, Harmony, Greenwich and Phillipsburg, in the said county of Warren to a point in the middle of the said river Delaware; thence following the courses of the said river Delaware to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, to be called "The County of Musconetcong," and the said lines shall hereafter be the division lines between the counties of Hunterdon, Warren and Musconetcong.〔New Jersey Senate; 1852 Session, Bill No. 97〕