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A58781 The model of the government of the province of East-New-Jersey in America and encouragements for such as designs to be concerned there : published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place. Scot, George, d. 1685. 1685 (1685) Wing S2036; ESTC R35166 110,424 282

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behoove of them the said Earl of Perth John Drummond Esquire c. their Airs and Assignes for ever Yeelding and paying therefore yearly for the said whole entire premisses unto his Royal Highness his Airs and Assignes the yearly rent of ten Nobles of Lawfull English money at or in the middle Temple-hall of London at or upon the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel yearly And the said James Earl of Perth John Drummond c. do for themselves severallie and for several and respective Airs Executors Administrators and Assignes Covenant Promise and Agree to and with his said Royal Highness his Airs or Assignes to pay or cause to be paid the said Annualrent of Ten Nobles on the dayes and times herein before limited for payment thereof And these presents farther witness that for the better enabling the said Earl of Perth John Drummond Esquire c. their Airs and Assignes to improve and plant the said premisses with people and to exercise all necessary Government there whereby the said premisses may be the better Improved and made more useful to them their Airs and Assignes and to the Kings Majesty His said Royal Highness hath likewise Given Granted Assigned and Transferred And doth by these presents Give Grant Assign and Transfer unto the said Earl of Perth c. their Airs and Assignes Proprietors of the said Province of East-New Jersey aforesaid for the time being all and every such and the same Powers Authorities Jurisdictions Governments and other matters and things whatsoever which by the said Respective before received Letters Patents or either of them are or were granted or intended to be granted to be exercised by his said Royal Highness his Airs Assignes Deputies Officers or Agents in or upon or in Relation to the said premisses hereby confirmed or intended to be confirmed and every of them in case the same were now in the actual seazing of his said Royal Highness to be held enjoyed exercised and executed by them the said Earl of Perth John Drummond c. their Airs and Assignes Proprietors of the said Province of East-New-Jersey for the time being as fully and amplie to all intents constructions and proposes as his said Royal Highness or his Airs might could or ought to hold enjoy use exercise or execute the same by force and vertue of the said several respective before recited Letters Patents or either of them or of any thing in them or either of them contained or otherwayes howsoever provided alwayes that these presents be entered with the Auditor General of his said Royal Highness within two moneths next after the date hereof In Witness whereof the parties abovenamed to these presents Indenturs Interchangablie have set their Hands and Seals day and year first above written JAMES This contains an absolute Grant and Conveyance of the moyety of New-Jersey called East New Jersey unto the Right Honourable James Earl of Perth John Drummond c. under the yearly rent of Ten Nobles payable on the Feast of St Michael in pursuance of a warrant from your Royal Highness dated the second of March 1683. Geo Jeffrey Sealed and Delivered by his Royal Highness in presence of Ro Worden Will Crofts Jo Ashtone Sir BY what is above written I hope you are sufficiently convinced of the justness of the Title of the Proprietors to what is contained in the Patent granted by the late King of happy Memory to his Royal Brother James Duke of York now Our Most Gracious Soveraign And now conveyed by him as you see as also that by the constitution of the Government these who subject themselves thereto may rationally propose comfortable and peaceable life without any just ground of Fears of any incroachment upon their properties or liberties even in matters of Opinion when the Proprietors are so far by their own concessions from exempting themselves from being subject to the Law that they declare themselves lyable thereto as the meanest Inhabitants are by one of the fundamental Constitutions It remains to give you al 's good ground to believe the above writen discription of the place to be consonant to truth and I shall offer you no other proof of this then what sufficiently convinced my self that there can hardly be any cheat in the affair to wit the perusal of the following Letters from that place which I have been at great pains to collect for my own satisfaction in the particular Yea I have been so much upon my guard that I might not be imposed upon in this that I have my self seen the principals of many of them when you consider they come from several hands at several times from People of Different perswasions and yet not the least contradiction to be observed amongst them all and that the accompt given therein to the Generall Advantage of the Countrey is homelogat by severall Gentlemen and Merchants in this city who to my self have Declared they have been eye witnesses to the truth of the most materiall Passages in these accompts narrated to the advantage of the place I hope you will find your self oblidged to rest Satisfied therewith An Account of the settled Towns and most part of the Plantations or Tract of Land taken up in the Province of East-New Jersey beginning at the outermost Southerly parts towards the Sea So going up Northerly on Hudsons River to its outmost extent This was the Condition of the Province Anno 1680. Given under the hand of Captain Nicolas Sacretary for the Duke in New-York Shrewsbery A Town in that Province lyes without Sandy-point and hath the farthest plantation to the Southward It s Scituate on the side of a River not far from its entrance and extends up into the Land a litle distant from the said River about eight mylles near unto Collonel Morice his Iron Mill and Plantation There is within its Jurisdiction Collonel Morice his Mannour being of _____ thousand Acres wherein are his Iron Mills his Mannours and diverse other buildings for his Servants and dependants there together with 60. or 70. Negres about the Mill and Husbandries in that Plantation There are diverse out-plantations accounted to belong to the Jurisdictions of the Town some in necks of Land by the Sea side others within Lands and towards Midletoun bounds and others on the northside of the River below Collonel Morice his Iron mills The computation of Acres taken up by the Town may be 10000 Acres and what is taken up by Collonel Morice and the other Out-plantation 20000. Acres the number of the Families in Town are so and of Inhabitants Men Women and Children 400. Midletoun is nixt 10. or 12. myls over Land Northward from Collonel Morice Iron Mills being 9. or 10 Myles up from the entrance of that River that which is property the Town may consist of 100 Families and of Inhabitants 500 and of Acres taken up for the Town 10000 and for the several Out-Plantations 20000. This was the second place settled in till Nichols time 1664. but there are many