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city_n	call_v	river_n	sea_n	5,770	4	6.4355	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29409	A Brief account of the province of East-Jersey in America published by the present proprietors thereof, viz, William Penn ... [et al.], for information of all such persons who are or may be inclined to setle themselves, families and servants in that country.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1682 (1682)	Wing B4517; ESTC R24672	4,131	9

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF East-Jersey IN AMERICA PUBLISHED By the present PROPRIETORS thereof VIZ William Penn Robert West Thomas Rudyard Samuel Groome Thomas Hart Richard Mew Thomas Wilcox Ambrose Rigg John Heywood Hugh Hartshorne Clement Plumsted Thomas Cooper Who intend to take in Twelve more to make the number of Proprietors Twenty four For Information of all such Persons who are or may be inclined to Setle themselves Families and Servants in that Country LONDON Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street Bookseller M DCLXXXII A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF East-Jersey IN AMERICA c. TO say any thing in the Praise or much in the Description of a Country so well known would seem needless The late Accounts and Descriptions of the adjacent Countries West-Jersey and Pennsilvania which are much of the same nature c. might suffice But considering that in Foreign Colonies yea here in England every particular County has some Excellency in Soyle Product or Scituation that may Affect and Delight many Persons beyond the places adjacent We may for the Satisfaction of such give some brief Account thereof I. This Province or Colony lies between 39 and 41 Degrees of Latitude being about 12 Degrees more to the South than the City of London And is bounded South-East by the main Sea East by that vast-Navigable Stream called hudsons-Hudsons-River which divides this from the Province of New-York West by a Line of Division which separates this Province from West-Jersey and N●●●h upon the main Land and extends it self in length on the Sea Coast and along Hudsons River one hundred English Miles and upwards II. The conveniency of Scituation temperature of Air and fertility of Soy●● is such That there 's no less than seven considerable Towns viz. Shrewsbury Middletown Burgin Newark Elizabeth Town Woodbridge and Piscataway which are well inhabited by a Sober and Industrious People who have necessary Provisions for themselves and Families and for the comfortable entertainment of Strangers and Travellers And this Colony is experimentally found Generally to agree well with English Constitutions III. For Navigation it hath these Advantages not only to be Scituate along the Navigable part of Hudsons River but lies also Fifty Miles on the Main Sea And near the midst of this Province is that Noted Bay for Ships within Sandy Hook very well known not to be inferiour to any Harbour in America where Ships not only Harbour in greatest Storms but there Ride safe with all Winds and Sail in and out thence as well in Winter as Summer IV. For Fishery the Sea Banks there are very well stor'd with variety of Fish not only such as are profitable for Transportation but such also as are fit for Food there As Whales Cod-fish Cole and Hake-fish large Mackerill and also many other sorts of Flat and small Fish The Bay also and Hudsons-River are plentifully stored with Sturgeon Great Basse and other Scale Fish Eels and Shell Fish as Oysters c. in great plenty and easie to take V. This Country is also plentifully supplied with lovely Springs Rivolets In-land Rivers and Creeks which fall into the Sea and Hudsons-River in which is also much plenty and variety of Fresh Fish and Water Fowl VI. There is great plenty of Oak-Timber fit for Shipping and Masts for Ships and other variety of Wood like the adjacent Colonies as Chesnut Walnut Popler Cedar Ash Firr c. fit for building within the Country VII The Land or Soyle as in other places varies in goodness and Richness but generally fertile and with much smaller Labour than in England Produceth plentiful Crops of all sorts of English Grain Besides Indian Corn which the English Planters find not only to be of vast increase but very wholesome and good in in its use It also produceth good Flax and Hemp which they now Spin and Manufacture into Linnen Cloth There 's sufficient Meadow and Marsh to their Up-lands And the very Barrens there as they are call'd are not like some in England but produce Grass fit for Grazing Cattle in Summer Season VIII The Country is well stored with wilde Deer Conies and Wilde Fowl of several sorts as Turkeys Pidgeons Partridges Plover Quailes wilde Swans Geese Ducks c. in great plenty It produceth variety of good and delicious Fruits as Grapes Plumbs Mulberryes and also Apricocks Peaches Pears Apples Quinces Water Mellons c. which are here in England planted in Orchards and Gardens These as also many other Fruits which come not to perfection in England are the more natural product of this Country IX There is also already great store of Horses Cowes Hoggs and some Sheep which may be bought at reasonable Prises with English Moneys or English Commodities or mans Labour where Moneys and Goods are wanting X. What sort of Mines or Minerals are in the Bowels of the Earth After-time must produce the Inhabitants not having yet employed themselves in search thereof But there is already a Smelting-furnace and Forge set up in this Colony where is made good Iron which is of great benefit to the Country XI It is exceedingly well furnished with safe and convenient Harbours for Shipping which is of great advantage to that Country and affords already for Exportation great plenty of Horses And also Beef Pork Pipestaves Boards Bread Flower Wheat Barly Rye Indian Corn Butter and Cheese which they Export for Barbados Jamaica Nevis and other adjacent Islands as also to Portugal Spain the Canaries c. their Whale Oyle and Whale-Finns Bever Mink Raccoon and Martin Skins which this Country produceth they Transport for England XII The Scituation and Soyle of this Country may invite many who are inclin'd to Transport themselves into those parts of America For 1. It being considerably Peopled and Scituate on the Sea Coast with convenient Harbours and so near adjacent to the Province of New-York and Long Island being also well Peopled Colonies may be proper for Merchants Tradsemen and Navigators 2. It 's likewise proper for such who are inclined to Fishery the whole Coast and very Harbours Mouths being fit for it which has been no small Rise to the New-England people and may be here carryed on also with great advantage 3. For its Soyle it 's proper for all Industrious Husband-men and such who by hard Labour here on Rack Rents are scarce able to maintain themselves much less to raise any Estate for their Children may with God's blessing on their Labours there live comfortably and provide well for their Families 4. For Carpenters Bricklayers Masons Smiths Mill-wrights and Wheel-wrights Bakers Tanners Taylors Weavers Shoomakers Hatters and all or most Handicrafts where their Labour is much more valued than in these Parts and Provisions much Cheaper 5. And chiefly for such of the above mentioned or any other w●o upon solid Grounds and weighty Considerations are inclined in their minds to go into those Parts without which their going there cannot be comfortable or answer their expectation