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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.
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Scot, George, d. 1685.
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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 EDINBURGH Printed by John Reid And Sold be Alexander Ogston Stationer in the Parliament Closs Anno DOM. 1685. TO JAMES Earl of PERTH Lord DRVMMOND and STOBHALL c. Lord High Chancellour of SCOTLAND JOHN Viscount of Melfoord Lord Drummond of Gilston Secretar of State for the Kingdom of Scotland one of the Members of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill in both Kingdoms GEORGE Viscount of Tarbet Lord Mccloud and Castle Haven Lord Clerk Register of Scotland and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council there My Noble Lords AS your Lordships concern in East-Jersey makes it appear to all intelligent persons that it is a Nationall interest to advance in generall the design of a Plantation hence to America so that in particular East-Jersey is the most proper place seeing your Lordships have chosen it among all the other parts of that continent to settle your interest there Yet my Lords there are to our shame a parcell of people who whether out of Ignorance or Malice I cannot well determine decry the design I believe they have a share of both and thereby weakens not a little the hands of a number of well meaning people who would gladly promot the same effectualy were they not imposed upon by the false rumours industriously spread abroad to stiffle any such inclinations I have been advised to consent to the publishing of the following sheets at first collected only for my own divertisement and more clear information in the affair As what may tend some what to prevent any foolish misrepresentation when by the perusall of the accompts from thence the least jealousie is removed of any cheat in the thing it self so advantagious a Character of the place coming from so many different hands I have had too many demonstrations of your Lordships favour to fear your displeasure upon accompt of my presuming to send the same abroad under your Patrociny yea I dare further adventure without the least apprehension of your dissatisfaction with me upon that head to mind your Lordships that as you have laid the foundation of this design as to any concern of this Countrey in that place so it is expected your Lordships will continue to encourage the same in process of time your Lordships may render your Names and Families as considerable in America as they are in Europ My Lords having resolved to dedicate my self Family and Fortune to the promoting of this design I should the more easily digest any frauns of Providence I have been trysted with were I so fortunat as to find the opportunity in Jersey of testifying my resentments of the favours I have received at your Lordships hands in Scotland by noticeing any of your Lordships concerns there and contributing what in me lyes to advance the same nothing shall be wanting in me to testifie how much I am My Noble Lords Your Lordships most humbly devoted Servant George Scot. Advertisement be the Printer to the Reader That whereas the Authors other pressing affairs hindered him from overseeing the Press as otherwayes he would there is not that correctness requisit in the following sheets it is hoped the Reader will upon this reason pardon the same and with his pen help what he finds amiss The pages 62 and 63 are misplaced and are to be read according to the number An Account of the Incouragement for promoting a Design of Planting in East-New-Jersey containing the Constitutions and Model of Government of that Province in a Letter from a Gentleman at Edinburgh concerned there to his Correspondent in the Countrey Sir PErceiving by your last Discourse that you not only appeared somewhat resolved to be your self concerned in promoting the present Design of carrying on a Plantation in America but to endeavour to engage several of your Friends in the same undertaking when you found any probability of its taking effect I find my self obliged for your more full Information 〈◊〉 let you know at more length the Reasons inducing me to be so much concerned in the promoâ—ing this Affair submitting very willingly the grounds prompting me hereto to your most narrow scrutiny whether in so doing I act Rationally or not Having at London in the year 1679 the opportunity of frequent converse with several Substantial and Judicious Gentlemen concerned in the American Plantations I had thereby the opportunity of understanding throughly the great advantage redounding to that City from Undertakings of this nature and rational grounds of Conjecture That their Commerce with that place of the World hath been one of the greatest Improvements of that Trade they have for many years enjoyed which hath rendered it now one of the most considerable Cities in Europe the Customes thereof which in Queen Elizabeths time were farmed at Fifty thousand pounds paying now in to the Exchequer near seven hundred thousand pounds yearly which great Improvement may be much attribute to their Trade with America brought now in a great manner to Perfection which at that time was but in its Infancy From that time I began to have strong inclinations to be more fully informed in that Affair and to be at all imaginable pains to notice the same verie concernedly and for my more full satisfâ—ction I judged iâ— requisit to trace the verie beginnings of all the English Plantations and their gradual progresses ere they arrived at that perfection they presently are at I could not rest satisfied with the first Methods I proposed to my self in Order to this of discoursing at large with such as had been in the several Plantations by putting such interrogators to them thereanent as I judged most proper for informing my self in all things relative to that knowledge I judged requisit for my own clear information and for being a foundation to a Design I then began to frame of being therein my self some way interested And tho I found one and the same accompt given me in Solution of the most material Questions I proposed Yea from several hands who were such whose knowledge in other things with the good Character they generally went under obliged me to notice their information as truth without the least jealousing the verity of the accompt they gave me yet for my more full satisfaction I proposed what I judged would contribute more clearly to my full understanding that affair to wit the perusal of all the Geographicall descriptions of these places in America inhabited by the English The first thing which offered to my view in this search was a question in it self both pleasant and material What way the continent of America came first to be inhabited after the Flood it being a World wholly unknown to the Europeans Asiaticks and Africans till the late discovery thereof by Americus Vesputius and Cristophorus Columbus since by all ciâ—cumstances it
Islands aforesaid or touching any Judgement or Sentence to be there made or given And further that it shall and may be Lawful to and for our said Dearest Brother His Heirs and Assignes by these Presents from time to time to Nominate Make Constitute Ordain and Confirm such Laws as aforesaid by such Name or Names Stile or Stiles as to him or them shall seem good And likewise to Revoke Discharge Change and Alter as well all and singular Governours Officers and Ministers which hereafter shall be by him or them thought fit and needful to be in or used within the aforesaid Islands and Parts And also to Make Ordain and Establish all manner of Laws Orders Directions Instructions Formes and Ceremonies of Government and Magistracy fit and necessar for and concerning the Government of Territories and Islands aforesaid So alwayes as the same be not contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Our Realm of England but as near as may be conformable thereunto and the same at all times hereafter to put in Execution or Abrogate Revoke or Change not only within the Precincts of the said Territories or Islands but also upon the Seas in going and coming to and from the same as he or they in their good Discretion shall think fittest for the good of the Adventurers and Inhabitants AND We do further of Our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Grant Ordain and Declare that all such Governours Deputes Officers and Ministers as from time to time shall be Authorized and appointed in manner and form aforesaid shal and may have full power and Authority within the Territories aforesaid to use exercise Martial Law in cases of Rebellion Insurrections Mutiny inas large and ample a manner as our Leiutenents in our Countries within Our Realm of England have or ought to have by force of their Commissions of Leiutenency or any Law or Statute of this our Realm And We do further by these presents for us our Heirs and Successours grant unto Our Dearest Brother James Duke of York his Heirs and Assignes that it shall and may be Lawful to and for the said James Duke of York his Heirs and Assignes in his or their Discretions from time to time to admit such so many person or persons to Trade Traffique into within the Territories and Islands aforesaid to every and any part parcel thereof to have possess and enjoy any Lands and Hereditaments in the part and places aforesaid as they shall think fit according to the Laws Orders Constitutions and Ordinances by our said Brother his Heirs Deputies Commissioners and Assignes from time to time to be made and established by vertue of and according to the true intent and meaning of these presents and under such Conditions Reservations and Agreements as our said Dearest Brother his Heirs and Assignes shall set down Order Direct and appoint and not otherwise as aforesaid And We do further of Our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer motion for US Our Heirs and Successors Give and Grant unto Our said Dearest Brother his Heirs and Assignes by these presents that it shall and may be Lawful to and for him them or any of them at all and every time or times hereafter out of any of our Realms or Dominions whatsoever take load carry and transport in and unto their Voyages for and towards the Plantations of our Territories and Islands aforesaid all such and so many of our loving Subjects or any other Strangers being not prohibited or under restraint that will become our loving Subjects and live under our Allegiance and shall willingly accompany them in the said Voyages together with all such Cloathing Implements Furniture or any other things usually Transported and not Prohibited as shall be necessary for the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Territories and for the use and defence thereof and Mannaging and carrying on the Trade with the people there Yeelding and paying unto Us our Heirs and Successors the Customes and Duties thereof due and payable according to Laws and Customes of this our Realm And we do also for Us our Heirs and Successors grant unto our said Dearest Brother JAMEs Duke of York his Heirs and Assignes and to all and every such Governour or Governours or Deputies their Officers or Ministers as by ouâ— said Brother his Heirs or Assignes shall be appointed to have Power and Authority of Government and Command in and over the Inhabitants of the said Territories and Islands that they and every of them shall and may lawfully from time to time and at all times for ever hereafter For their several Defence and safty Encounter Repulse Expel and Resist by force of Armes as well by Sea as by Land and all wayes and means whatsoever all such person and persons as without the special Licence of our Dearest Brother his Heirs and Assignes shall attempt to Inhabit within the several Precincts and Limits of our said Territories and Islands and also all and every such person and Persons whatsoever as shall Enterprize and Attempt at any time hereafter the Distruction Invasion Detriment or Annoyance to the parts places or Islands aforesaid or any parts thereof And Lastly our will and pleasure is And We do hereby declare and grant that these out Letters Patents or the Inrollment thereof shall be good and effectual in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever notwithstanding the not well and true Receiting or mentioning of the premisses or any part thereof or the Limits or Bounds thereof or of any form or other Letters Patents or Grants whatsoever made or Granted of the premisses or of any part thereof or the Limits or bounds thereof or of any former or other Letters Patents or Grants whatsoever made or Granted of the Premisses or of any part thereof by US or any of Our Progenitors unto any Person or Persons whatsoever bodies Politique or Corporate any other Law or other restraint in certainty or imperfection whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Although express mention of the true yearly Value or certainty of the Premisses or any of them or of any other Gifts or Grants by Us or by any of our Progenitors heretofore made to the said James Duke of York in these presents is not made or any Statute Act Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restriction heretofore had made enacted or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstading In witness whereof We caused these Letters to be made Patent Witness our self at Westminster the 29. day of June in the 16. Year of Our Reign The SCOTS Proprietors are the Earl of Perth Lord High Chancellour of SCOTLAND his Brother the Viscount of Metfoord Secretar of State for this Kingdom and the Viscount of Tarbit Lord Register Five hundred thousand Acres being seven parts of the 24. belongs to these three and some other Gentlemen This Province or Collony lyes betwixt 39. and 41. Degrees of