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An Abstract or abbreviation of some few of the many (later and former) testimonys from the inhabitants of New-Jersey and other eminent persons who have wrote particularly concerning that place
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1681
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Wing A147; ESTC R6922
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it is in England There wants nothing but good Honest People to Inhabit it The Ship that was bound for New-Jersey arrived about the Second or Third Day of this Month I was in New-Jersey when She came in I was the First that saw Her So the next Day I went Aboard of Her and the People told me They were Eight Weeks at Sea and the first Land they made was Cape-Codd in New-England which was an Hundred Leagues out of their way And they were at a great Loss for want of a Pilot to carry them along the Shore but while they were at Sea they wanted for nothing Now I have seen most of these Parts hereabout and to my thinking New-Jersey exceeds them All for good Land good Timber good Meadow and other good Conveniences that are Here For One Acre in this Place is worth half a dozen in other Places that lye Hereabouts and I could be very glad that You and Your Family were safe arrived Here. But I hope I shall see you all in London within these Three Months and then I shall give you a better Account concerning our Affairs So having no more at present to trouble you with I rest and remain Your Dutiful Son Ephraim Warren These for Mr. Henry Warren in Fenchurch-Street this deliver with Care I pray New-Jersey 20th 2d Month 1678. This is Extractim Dear Friends I Doubt not but it will be great Satisfaction to You to hear of Mine and the rest of Friends Passage to and safe Arrival in New-Jersey We took Ship the Sixteenth of November and made the Land of New-Jersey in Thirty-Four Dayes And many other Things he writes of needless here to be mentioned But of the Country thus Now Friends as to this Country there has been much said by several Persons in Commendation thereof both as to the Increase of all sorts of Grains and Fruits as also to the Plenty of Fish Fowl Deer Swine c. that I shall not need to add any thing to it But in short this I have to say That I do not know any one thing to fall short of what has been Reported of this Province but that more might truly have been said of its pleasant Situation wholsome Air and general and great Increase of all things planted and especially of Indian-Corn which is a very good and serviceable Grain many wayes The English Wheat and Barley primely Good but Rye and Pease much better than any I ever saw in England or Ireland I doubt not but you have had an Account of all other Matters before this by those who came to Jersey before Me comes to your Hands And I have no other end in this than keeping you from the rash Censures of People that know it not as also for the Good and Prosperity of this Good Country c. Subscribed Your Friend William Clark Directed for William Penn Gawen Lawry Edward Billinge Weymouth 28th 6th Month 1678. Verbatim A Letter from Thomas Budd who had then been at New-Jersey and is gone thither again with his Wife and Family Dear Friend Gawen Lawry I Am safely come from New-Jersey where I left Friends in Health who like the Country very well We have set down both Trades and Husbandmen together in the Island call'd Chygoe's Island where we have built and are building many Houses but it 's too strait to contain so many People as are already upon it I suppose I have Travelled more in New-Jersey than any other Person that came lately which I did at my own proper Charge that I might be able to satisfie my Self and Acquaintance concerning the Country I intend to be shortly in London and then may give a fuller Account of all Proceedings And I doubt not but New-Jersey will be as thriving a Place as any is in America I desire Information what Ships are going or to go thither this Year which is the Needful at present from Thy Dear Friend Thomas Budd Superscrib'd for Gawen Lawry in George-Yard in Lombard-Street Merchant Burlington in New-Jersey upon the River Delaware the 19th of the 4th Moneth call'd June 1678. An Extract of a Letter written by John Crips to his Brother and Sister Dear Loving Brother Sister I Have received both your Letters wherein I understand your Faith concerning this Country is much shaken through several false Reports given thereof which may be proved false under the hands of several good Friends I hope as worthy to be believed as that Reporter and such as have had more Experience of this Place than he had or could have in so short a time Besides he came amongst us shortly after our coming hither when things were not settl'd in that Order amongst us as now they are Neither indeed did he find such Entertainment from some as he expected which I suppose makes him speak the worst he can devise of this Place But I question not but his Reports will in a short time be wip'd away Some of which in my Knowledge are gross Lyes as well as Contradictions to his own VVords For I remember when I Travelled with him through Part of New-Jersey he confessed That much of this Land was as good or better than the Land in Road-Island And it 's really my judgment that those people that cannot be contented with such a Country and such Land as this is they are not worthy to come here And this I can truly tell you if I were now in England with you my Friends and which I should be very glad to see yet if all I had in the World would but bring me hither I should freely leave You and my Native-Country and come to New-Jersey again which I have said many a time heretofore but now I write it under my Hand and it 's really the Truth whether you will believe it or not And farther I can truly tell you That I desire not nor dare not to write the least Untruth to draw you or any others to this Place But an resolved if I never see your Face more to leave you to your own Freedom in the Lord. But I hope you are not insensible of my Love and Desires for You though I am I say constrain'd to Forbear perswading You or any one else against their own Freedoms yet I think it my Duty to let You and all Men know the Truth of things as near as I can Your Letter saith it 's reported the water is not so good as in England I do not remember that ever I tasted better water in any part of England than the springs of this Place do yeild of which is made very good bear and Ale And here is also Wine and Sider And whereas your Letter to me saith several have come back from this Country to England Two or Three I suppose there are Lazy idle persons that have done so But on the other hand here are several persons Men of Estates that have been here and have gone back to England and sold their Estates and return'd with