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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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considerable Plantations within the Jurisdiction of that Town viz. Captain John Broun and others that first settled who removed out of the Town and settled greater plantations abroad Richard Hartshorn hath a Plantation with considerable Land belonging to it part within and part without Sandy Hook which with a part of Coney Island and Long Island opposite to it makes the entrance into the Bay that goes up to Now-York and also to the Lands of East-New-Jersey the Town is above 5 myles from the entrance of the Creek or River that goes up to it from the Bay There was a Plantation one the Norths side of the Creek at its entrance first settled by Nicolas Davis having a large tract of Land belonging to it of 2. or 3000. Acres since devided to deverse besides several Out-plantations and there is a great Deall of waist Land and other Improveable betwixt this said Piscattaway for about 20. myles There was a court of Sessions held twice or thrice a year for these two Towns and their Jurisdictions Thirdly Piscattaway Lyes next 25. or 26. myles from Midletoun Irs up Rariton River 5. or 6. myles westward in and there is about half myle within Land The entrance into Rariton River is at the bottome of the Southren bay and opposite to the Southermost point of Staten Islands the Northwest point of the entrance is called Amboy point where is a fair tract of Land formerlie reserved by the proprietor for his own use There are several Plantations all along on the North side of the River as you goe up to the Town and some on the South-side among which are considerable belonging to one Thomas Lauernce a baker at New-York his wife son about 3000. Acres Vp higher on Rariton River near the falls which are about 3. miles over Land there are severall Plantations a good big vassel loaden may goe up to the falls and so may above it for several myles in the River At the falls its foordable for horses and other cattle unl●s in great Floods when men may goe over 〈…〉 boats and Canows and horses will swim over though the River be a good breadth About the falls there are severall tract o●… Lands some upon on side some on the other si●… the River viz a place called by the In●…ans Rachahova-Wallaby Captain John Palmer of Staten Islands Mr. Thom●… Coddrington Mr. White and Company Merchant at New-York in part setled there on 6. or 7000. Acres M. John Robison Mr. Samuell Edsall and Company of New-York on 6. or 7000. Acres Captain Palmer Mr. Whyte Captain Corsen and Company on 5. or 6000. Acres There is some other Land taken up by Milstoun River which comes into Rariton River and is near the midle bounds between the two Province of East and West-Jersey you pass Milstoun River to goe over Land from Piscataway to Meltinsed in Island in Delaware River which is near Burlingtoun The Town Consists of about 80 Families and of about 400. Inhabitants and of Acres about the Town about 10000 and for the out-Plantatations 30000. Woodbridge is over Land from Piscattaway about 7. or 8 miles it lyes up a River the entrance whereof is about 5 or 6 miles to the North of Amboy-Point the side ebbing and flowing betwixt the Main Land of New-Jersey and Staten Island on the Westside as it doeth on the East-side of the said Island and Long Island On the South side of the entrance into the River or Creek Mr. Delapairs Surveyour Generall hath a neat Plantation and he hath severall tracts of Land in the Province There are other Plantations on the South side of the River or Creek within Land and diverse on the Northside lying along the water side opposite to Staten Island untill you come to a Creek or River that divydes their bounds from these of Elezabeth Town the mouth of it being 8. or 9. myles from Woodbridge There are severall Plantations up the South-side of the Creek to the Road that goes along from Woodbridge to the Town and passeth over that River it being foordable over the Plantation on the north side Sayling to Elizabeth Town It s reckoned from one Town to the other ahout 15. or 16. miles over-Land but it s more by water This Town pretends to have more priviledges them any other Town in the province and hath a Charter of Corporation It hath a Court house and a prison built on their charge It consists of about 120 Families and 600. Inhabitants The Acres taken up by the Town may be about 10000. and for the Out-plantations about 20000. Elizabeth Town is the first new place that was settled 1664. by vertue of a patent from Mr Nicolas to Captain John Baker before the Lord Barclay and Sir George Cartwrights Tittle was knowen This Town lyes up 3. myles within a Creek the entrance whereof is almost opposite to the north-west-North-west-end of Staten Islands There are several Out-plantations on the North side of the River which devides the hounds between this Town and Woodbridge particularlie where the roads pass over to which place is about 7 or 8 myles There are other plantations at the point or entrance of the Creek on the North side if it comonly called Governour Cartwrights point where there is another ferme between the proprietor and him It s but a narrow passage there over to the Meadows of Staten Island then on Northward there are other Plantations fronting to the Bay that lyes to the North part of Staten Island beside some other within Land from the Town to New-York bounds There is in this Town a house orcheards and ferm within the Town in partnership between the Proprietor and Governour Philip Cartwright it being one of the first house built there and hath all along been the residence of the Governour untill of late he hath finished his New-house The Town is built on both sides of the Creek and Consists of 150. Families and of 700. Inhabitants The Acres taken up by the Town are computed to be 10000. and for the Out-Plantations 30000. Newark alias Millfoord is a Town distant to the Northward over Land from Elizabeth Town about 6 or 7 myles It lyes on a River called Newark River which emptieth it self into the Bay about 4 or 5 myles down opposite to the Town on the North side of the River lyeth a great tract of Land belonging to Mr. Kings-Land and Captain Sanfoord the quittrents whereof is purchased There is another great tract of Land taken up higher in the River by Captain Berrie who hath disposed of a part of it There are several Plantations setled there It s said he hath about 10000. Acres there farther up the water is an Island of about 1000. Acres belonging to Mr. Christopher Hoogland of Newark if it be not an Island it is tyed by a very narrow slip of Land to the Continent Above that again is a greater tract of Land above 8. or 9000. Acres purchased by Lease of the Governour according to the Concessions by
sons of Men is discovered the Psalmist tells us that GOD is much magnified by this that the whole Earth is full of His Riches yea and the Red sea too Psalm 104.24 And GOD when he would have Abraham know what he had bestowed on him when he gave him Canaan wills him to walk through it in the length of it and the breadth of it Gen. 13.17 GODS Honour is hereby advanced when together with Mens Persons Religion is conveyed to several parts of the World and all the quarters of the Earth sound with His Praise and CHRIST JESUS takes in the Nations for his inheritance and the ends of the Earth for His Possession according to GODS Decree and Promise Psal 28. Seeing then it must be acknowledged that even those Collonies which have been undertaken upon the desire either of disburthening full states of unnecessary multitudes or of replenishing wast and void Countries have a clear and sufficient Warrand from the Mouth of GOD as immediately concurring with a special end that GOD aimed at in the first institution thereof when GODS Honour and Glory and next Mans Salvation is his own proper scope in this and all his wayes it must be more necessarly acknowledged that the desire and respect unto the publishing his Name where it is not known and reducing men who live without GOD in this present world unto a form of Piety and Godliness by how much the more immediately it suits with the mind of GOD and is further carried from private respects by so much the more it advanceth this work of planting Coll●●ies above all Civil and Humane ends and deserves Honour and Approbation above the most glorious conqueasts or most succesful interprises which ever were undertaken by the most renowned men which the Sun hath seen and that by how much the subduing of Satan is a more glorious Act than a Victory over Man and the inlargements of CHRISTS Kingdom than the adding unto Mens dominions and the saving of Mens Souls than the provision for their Lives and Bodies It appears this end in Plantation hath been specially reserved for this latter dayes of the World seing before CHRIST the Decree of GOD that suffered all Nations to walk in their own wayes Acts 14.16 Shut up the Church in the narrow bounds of the promised land and so excluded men from the propagation of Religion to other Countries And in the Apostles times GOD afforded an easier and speedier course of converting Men to the Truth by the gifts of the Tongues seconded by the power of Miracles to win the greater credit to their Doctrine which most especially and first prevailed upon Countries civilized as the History of the Acts of the Apostles makes manifest As for the rest it is not questioned but GOD used the same way to other barbarous Nations which he held with these whom he first civilized by the Roman Conquests and mixture of their Collonies with them that Religion might be afterwards brought in seeing it cannot be imagined that Religion should prevail upon these who are not subdued to the rule of Nature and Reason It may be rationally conjuctured that GOD did especially direct this Work of Erecting Colonies unto the planting and propogating of Religion in the West-Indies and that for diverse reasons which ought to be taken unto serious consideration as affoording the strongest motives which can be proposed to draw on the hearts affections of men to their work There are men of Note both for Place and Learning in the Church that conceive the course held by GOD from the beginning in the propagation of Religion falls in the last age upon the Western Parts of the World It is most certain that from the first Planting of Religion among Men it hath alwayes held a constant way from East to West and hath in that Line proceeded so far that it hath extended to the uttermost Western bounds of the formerly known World so that if it make up any further passage upon that point of the Compass it must necessarly light upon the West-Indies And it is conceived with all that our Saviors Prophesie Matth. 24.27 points out such a progress of the Gospel its true that the comparison there used taken from the lightning aims at the sudden dispersing of the knowledge of CHRIST by the Apostles Ministery but whereas it is known that the Ligthning shins from diverse places of the Heaven shewing it self indifferently sometimes in the West sometimes in the North or South It s judged probable that our Saviour does in this similitude choice to name the lightning that comes out of the East unto the West to express not only the shining out of the Gospel but withall the way and passage by which it proceeds from one end of the World to an other that is from East to West But passing by that onely as a probable argument the following seems to carry greater weight the knowledge of CHRIST must certainly be manifested to all quarters of the World according to diverse predictions of Prophets ratified and renewed by Christ and his Apostles but that the knowledge of Christ hath been never as yet fully discovered to these Western Nations is clearly demonstrated seing till the time that the first Planters went over from England not many years since no Historie for 500. years before Christ ever mentioned any such Inhabitants upon earth much less l●ft any record of passage to them or commerce with them so that unless we should conceive a miraculous worth of conceiving knowledge without means it cannot be imagined how these Nations should have once heard of the Name of CHRIST But further what shall we think of that almost miraculous opening the passage unto and discovery of these formerly unknown Nations which must needs have proven impossible to former Ages for want of the Knowledge of the use of the Load-stone as wounderfully found out as these unknown Countreys by it It were little less then impiety to conceive that GOD whose Will concurrs with the lighting of a Sparrow upon the ground had no designe in directing one of the most difficult and observable works of this Age and as great folly to imagine that He who made all things and consequently Orders and Directs them to his own Glory had no other scope but the satisfying of Mens greedy appetites who thirsted after the riches of that new World And to tender to the bloody and cruel Spainard the objects of such barbarous cruelties as the World never heard of We have then ground to conceive that GOD in that great Discovery aimed at this that after he had punished the Atheism and Idolatry of these Heathens and brutish Nations by the Conquerours cruelty and acquainted them by mixture with some other peoples civility he might at length cause the Glorious Gospel of JESUS CHRIST shine out to them as it did to other Nations after the sharp times of the bitter dissolations thereof betwixt the Romans and them That this Nation is able and