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all the same Hereditamts & premises to bee devided as aforesaid to the use of the said John Sweetable his Heires & assigns forever And as to for & concerning Thirty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Thomas Bromfield his Heires & assignse forever And as to for & Concerning Thirty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said John Norton his Heires & assigns forever And as to for & Concerning Thirty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Robert Hackshaw his heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Thirty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said John Bridges his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Thirty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Joseph Paice his Heires & assigns forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Here- ditamte & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Edward Richier his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be de- vided as aforesaid to the use of the said William Dunch his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Here- ditamts & premises to be devided as aforesd to the use of the said Edward Habbersfield his Heires & assigns forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said John Alber- son his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Con- cerning Twenty other parts of all the same Here- ditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Edward West his Heires & Assignes
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forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the said Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Edward Pauncefort his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all ye same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Obadiah Burnett his heires & Assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said ffrancis Michel his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Benjamin Steele his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesd to the use of the said John Slaney his Heires & Assignes forever And as to for & concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Here- ditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of thesaid Nehemiah Erwing his Heires & Assignes forever And as to for & Concerning Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be de- vided as aforesd to the use of the said John Wilcocks his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concern- ing Twenty other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesª to the use of the said Richard Mayo his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & Concerning ffifteene other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the use of the said Jonathan Netheway his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & concern- ing Tenne other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided to the use of the said William Brookes his Heires & assignes forever And as to for & concerning Tenne other parts of all the same Here- ditamts & premises to be devided as aforesaid to the
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use of the said Tracey Pauncefort his Heires & as- signes forever And as to for & Concerning Tenne other parts of all the same Hereditamts & premises to be devided as aforesd to the use of the said Joseph Allen his Heires & assigns forever And as to for & Concerning Tenne other parts of all the same Here- ditamts & premises to be devided as aforesd To the use of the said Richard Greenaway his Heires & assignes forever And the said Daniel Coxe for himself his Heires Exetrs & Admtrs doth Covenant promise grant & agree to & with the said S" Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St. Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wight- man Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfield John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfield John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehe- miah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway & each of them their & each of their Heires Exect's Admi's & assignes by these p'sents That one full moyetie of all & every the shares proprieties & premises in West New Jersey afore- said mentoned to be hereby granted & released are situ- ate lyeing & being at or near Cape May and Maurice River in West New Jersey aforesaid And that one Tenth part of all & every the Shares Proprieties & premisses in West New Jersey aforesaid mentoned to be hereby granted & released the whole in Tenn equall parts to be devided is situate lyeing & being above the ffalls of Delaware River in West New Jersey
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aforesaid And that the same Moyetie & Tenth part have bin absolutely purchased by the said Daniel Coxe in ffee simple of the Indian Natives & that he hath paid & discharged all moneyes att any tyme due or payable for the purchase thereof And also satisfyed & paid all the charges & expences for surveying the same And whereas some scruple & doubt hath arisen touching & concerning the right & Tytle of the said Daniel Coxe to all that Tract of Land mentoned to be hereby granted & released called the Minisincks Prov- ince Now it is hereby agreed that four hundred pounds part of the said four Thousand Eight Hundred pounds shall not be paid unto the said Daniel Coxe his Execrs or Admitrs but shall remaine as a deposition in the hands of the said respective purchasers being third parties to these p'sents until there shall be such other good & sufficient assurance in the Law made and executed of the same Province to & for the uses herein before thereof Limited or declared as by the said S' Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shal- let John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfield John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfield John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway or any of them their or any of their Heires or assignes or their or any of their Counsell learned in the Laws shall be reasonably advised or devised & required &
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then it is hereby declared that the same four hundred pounds shall be paid to the said Daniel Coxe his Exet's Admint's or assignes And the said Daniel Coxe for himself his Heires Exet's & Admit's doth Covenant demise & grant to & with the said S' Thomas Lane Michel Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner, James St Johns Nicholas Hayward, Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Bettersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Bod- dington John Guston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Loue Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Hab- bersfeild John Alberson Edward West Edward Paunce- fort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Rich- ard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brookes Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenway & every of them respectively : their & each of their respectiue heires & assignes by these p'sents That hee the said Daniel Coxe hath not at any tyme heretofore made done Com'itted or wittingly or willingly suffered any Act matter or thing whatsoever whereby or by meanes whereof the said Lands Hereditants & p"misses men- tioned to be hereby granted & released or any of them or any part thereof is are can shall or may be Im- peached or Incumbred in Tytle charge estate or other- wise And that he the said Daniel Coxe (for & notwith- standing any Act matter or thing whatsoever by him made done Com'itted or wittingly or willingly suffered to the contrary is & standeth lawfully rightfully & absolutely seized in his demand as of ffee & in all & singular the Lands Tenemts hereditamts & p'mises mentoned to be hereby granted & Released of a good sure lawful absolute & indefeazable Estate of inherit-
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ance in ffee simple in him without any Reverson or Remaind' Trust Limitation power of Revocation use or uses or any other matter restraint or thing whatfo- ever to alter change charge revoake make voyd lesson incumber or determine the same And that hee the said Daniel Coxe at the tyme of the Ensealing & deliv- ery of these p'sents hath in himselfe good right full power & lawful authority to grant & Convey the said Lands Tenemts Hereditamts & p'mises mentoned to be hereby granted & released in manner aforesd according to the purport true intent & meaning of these p'sents And further that it shall & may be lawfull to & for the said ST. Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Har- rison Thomas Skinner James St Johns Michael Hay- ward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Battersley Robert Cur- tis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooks- bank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richior William Dunch Edward Habbersfeild John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Er- wing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Nethe- way William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway respectively their & each of their respective heires & assignes at all times here- after peaceably & quietly to enter into haue hold occupie possess & enjoy the said Lands Tenemts Hered itamts & p'mises mentoned to be hereby granted & re- leased & to receive & take the rents Issues & profitts thereof of every part thereof to & for his & their own re- spective use & benefitt without the Lawfull Let Suit Trouble denyall evicton or interrupton of or by him the said Daniel Cox or his Heires or any other Person or
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Persons lawfully clayming or to claym any Estate right Tytle or Interest either in Lawe or Equity of into or out of the same Lands Tenemts hereditamts & p"mises mentioned to be hereby granted & released or any of them or any part thereof from by or under or in Trust for him and that free & clear & freely & clearly ac- quitted exhonrated & discharged or otherwise by the said Daniel Coxe his Heires Executors or Adminis- trato's well & sufficiently saved defended kept harm- lefs & indemnifyed of from & against all & all manner of former & other gifts grants bargains sales Leases Mortgages Joyntures dower Tytle of dower uses Trusts wills Intayles statute Recognizances Judge- ments Extents Executions Rents charge Rents Arreares of Rent & of & against all & singular other Estates Tytles troubles charges & incumbrances what- soever had made done Com'itted wittingly or willingly suffered or to be had made done com'itted or wit- tingly or willingly suffered by the said Dan- iel Coxe or Rebecca his wife or either of them or his Heires or by any other Person or Per- sons lawfully clayming or to clayme any estate right Tytle Trust or Interest either in law or Equity of into or out of the said Lands Tenemts hereditamts & premises mentoned to be hereby granted released or any of them or any part thereof from by or under or in trust for him And moreover that he the said Daniel Coxe & Rebecca his wife and his Heires & all & every other Person or Persons haveing or Lawfully clayming or which shall or may have or lawfully claime any estate right tytle or interest either in Law or Equity of into or out of the said Lands Tenemts Hereditamts & p"mises mentoned to be hereby granted & Released or any of them or any part thereof from by or under or in Trust for the said Daniel Coxe shall & will from time to time & at all times hereafter dur- ing the space of Ten yeares next ensuing the date here-
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of upon every reasonable request & at the proper costs & charges in the Law of the said S. Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James Saint Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Ab- bott Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Robert Shallet John Lamb William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Norton .Robert Hackstraw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfield John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway respectively & their respective Heires & assignes make doe acknowledge Levy suffer & execute or cause to be made done acknowledged Levyed suf- fered & executed all & every such further & other lawfull and reasonable Act & Acts thing & things de- vice & devices Conveyances & assurances in the Law whatsoever for the further better and more perfect and absolute assureing surety sure making and Con- veying of the said Lands Tenements Hereditaments & premisses mentioned to be hereby granted and released to the uses herein before declared of and concerning the same be it by ffyne ffeoffmt Recovery or other law- full wayes or meanes howsoever as by the said S! Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweet-
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able Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfeild John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnett ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Er- wing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Nethe- way William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway or any of them their or any of their Heires or Assignes or by their or any of their Counsell learned in the Law shall bee reasonably de- vised or advised soe as such further assurances Con tained in them noe further other Covenants or war- ranty than against the Person or Persons his or her Heires who shall make or doe the same And soe as the party or partyes who shall be desired or requested to make or doe the same be not Compelled or Compell- able for making or doeing thereof to goe or Travell further than the Citties of London & Westminster or one of them And that the originall Deede of Grant relateing (amongst others) to the said ffour Proprieties or Hundredth parts of West new Jersey aforesaid hereby Granted or intended to be granted as aforesaid which said originall Deede beare date on or about the Twenty Seventh and Twenty Eighth days of March Anno D'mie one Thousand Six hundred Eighty and two and are mentoned to be made betweene William Penn Gawen Lawrie Nicholas Lucas and Edward Bylling of the one part and the said John Hinde of the other part shall from time to time and at all times upon reasonable request to him the said Daniel Coxe his Executors or Administrators on that behalfe to be first made shall be produced and shown forth in Court or elsewhere undefaced and then & there to remaine and be for such time as shall be Convenient for the better mainteyning and asserting the Estate right & Tytle of in and to the said ffour Proprieties hereby granted and released as aforesaid if any Claime Con-
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troversie pretences or doubt at any time hereafter doe arise touching or concerning the same or any part thereof In Witnesse whereof the parties first above named to these p'sent Indentures have Interchange- ably sett their hands and seales the day & yeare first above written.
DAN : COXE : with a seale
REBECKAH COXE with a seale
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Sealed & Delivered by the withinnamed Daniel Coxe in ye presence of SAMI RUSSELL RALPH WITHERS POCKAYNE TERRY WETHEREBY RICHARD JOHNSON-
Sealed & Delivred by the withinnamed Rebecca Coxe in ye prsence of POKAYNE TERRY WETHEREBY RICHARD JOHNSON.
Memorand that before ye execution of ye originall Deed there was this interlineation inserted in the first skin betweene the Thirty eighth and thirty nynth Lines (And in such mann' part and propor- tion as shall be expressed in & by the Deed of grant intended to be hereafter made and executed to him the said Daniell Cox & in noe other manner whatso- ever.
SAMLL RUSSELL JOHN HACKETT RALPH WITHERS.
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Grant of the Government of West Jersey1, from Daniel Coxe to the West Jersey Society.
[From West Jersey Records in Secretary of State's office at Trenton, Liber B, page 298.]
Societies' Grant from Daniel Coxe Esquire of the Government: of West New Jersey and Terri- tories Thereof.
THIS INDENTURE made the ffourth day of March in the ffourth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady William & Mary by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance & Ireland King & Queene
1 THIS GRANT seems to have effectually settled the question of the right of Government, which for several years had disturbed the Provinces; the New Jersey Society, thereafter, exercising it as well as the right of Proprietors of the land. The nature of the preceding difficulties will be seen from the following:
Among other "Resolves of the Freeholders of this Province in free Assemby met the 14th Day of the 3d Month, 1683, at an open and free conference " in reference to several Queries, appears the following :-
"1. Querie. Whether the purchase at first made was of Land and Government together or not?
" Resolve to which Quierie, It is the Resolve of the Assembly (together with the Governor) with a (Nemine Contradicente) that the Land and Government of West New Jersey were purchased together." * *
"6. Querie. Whether an Instrument shall be drawn up, and sent by order of this Assembly to some trusty Friends in London, for Edward Billinge to sign and Seal, whereby to confirm his first Bargain and Sale he made to the Freeholders of this Province, of Land and Government together, with a Letter of Instruction to those Friends to transact the same Affair, or not ?
"Resolve. The Assembly pass it in General as their Resolve in the affirmative (with a Nemine Contradicente.)" * * [Whereupon fourteen prominent individuals in the province were elected to write the "letter of Instruction " to eight Friends designated by name.]
"8. Querie. Whether the expedient proposed by Governor Penn be satisfactory, to wit, that if the people chuse Samuel Jennings, Governor [he had been appointed Deputy Governor by Edward Byllyng in 1681] and if he promise to execute the Place with Fidelity and Diligence according to the Laws, Concessions, and Constitutions of this Province to the best of his skill, it be security sufficient to the people or not?
"Resolve to which Query the Assembly pass'd their Resolve in the affirmative (with a Nemine Contradicente) save only one member was dubious therein."* * * *
" Samuel Jenings, is by the true Election and Vote of the Assembly chosen Governor of this Province." * * * *
"The Engagement and Promise of Samuel Jenings to the General Assembly, &c., upon his Election as Governor of this Province as followeth, (viz.)
"I, Samuel Jenings, being duly elected Governor of the Province of West-Jersey, by the General free Assembly thereof sitting at Burlington, the 11th Day of the third Month in the year 1683, do freely and faithfully Promise (according to the
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defend's of the ffaith &c And in the yeare of our Lord Christ one Thousand Six hundred nynety & one' BE- TWEENE Daniel Coxe of London Esquire Governo" & Chiefe Proprietor of the Province of West New Jersey and other adjacent Lands & Territories thereunto an- nexed in America of the one part and ST. Thomas Lane of London K, Michael Watts of London Merchant Edmond Harrison of London Merchant Thomas Skinner of Derolisk in the County of Dorsett Esq" James St Johns of London Goldsmith Nicholas Hay- ward of London Gent Mordecai Abbott of London Gent Nicholas Battersley of London Merchant Robert Curtis of London Gent John Jurin of London M'chant Richard Bromhall of London Gent Robert Michel of London Merchant Charles Michel of. London M'chant James Boddington Cittizen & Clothworker of London John Gunston of London M'chant Arthur Shallet of London M'chant John Lamb of London M'chant Wil- liam Wightman of London Gent Joseph Brooksbank Cittizen & Haberdasher of London William Thompson of London Merchant Henry Harrington of London Merchant John Love of London M'chant Thomas Phipps of London Linnendrap Isaac Cocks of Lon don M'chant Taylor John Sweetable of Lombard Street
best of my Ability) to act in that Capacity, according to the Laws, Concessions and Constitutions as they are now established in the said Province.
SAMUEL JENNINGS, Governor. *
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"BE IT HEREBY ENACTED and Resolved by the Proprietors and Freeholders within the Province of West Jersey in free Assembly met, that the Matter relating their Demand and Vindication of their right to the Government against Edward Billing's pretence to the same, shall be proceeded in; and first that a Demand to Edward Billings for his confirmation of what he hath sold, shall first be made. In Pursuance whereof the Assembly unanimously nominate, elect and chuse Governor Samuel Jenings and Thomas Budd to negotiate the said affair in England, and commissionate and Impower them for the Transacting the same."
[Jennings and Budd proceeded to England (Thomas Olive having been appointed by Jennings Deputy Governor in his place) but what was the result of their negotia- tion does not appear. In 1685 Byllynge commissioned John Skeene as Deputy Governor, and the Assembly "reserving their just Rights and Privileges " acknowl- edged his authority]. Grants and Concessions, pp. 468-472 485, 489, 502.
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Goldsmith Thomas Bromfeild of London Gent John Nortonof London Merchant Robert Hackshaw of Lon- don Merchant John Bridges of London Merchant Joseph Paice of London Merchant Edward Richier of London Mercer William Dunch of Lincolns Inne in the County of Midde Esq" Edward Habbersfeild of the Middle Temple London Gent John Alberson of London Merchant Edward West of London Gentleman Edward Paunecfort of London Gent Obadiah Burnett of Lon- don Merchant ffrancis Michel of London Cittizen & Mercer Benjamin Steele of London Merchant John Slaney of London Merchant Nehemiah Erwing of Lon- don Gent John Wilcocks of London Merchant Taylor Richard Mayo of London Gent Jonathan Netheway Cittizen & Drap of London William Brooks of Lon- don Gent Tracy Pauncefort of London Gent Joseph Allen of London Gent and Richard Greenaway Cit- tizen & Clothworker of London of the other part WHEREAS IJames Duke of Yorke (afterwards King James the second) over England Scotland ffrance & Ireland Defend' of the ffaith &c by his indenture bear- ing date on or about the sixth day of August in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Six hundred & Eighty for the better enableing Edward Bylling then of the City of Westminster Gent since deced his Heires & assignes to improve & plant that Tract of Land then & now called West New Jersey in America & its rights members & appurtenances with People & to exercise all necessary Government there did give grant assigne & Transferre unto the said Edward Bylling his Heires & assignes all & every the same powers authorities jurisdictions Governmts & other matters & things whatsoever within or relating to West New Jersey aforesaid which had beene granted or were mentioned or intended to be granted to the said Duke in & by Two Severall Letters Pattent made by his late Matie King Charles the Second the one
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