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1692] DANIEL COXE AND WIFE TO WEST JERSEY SOCIETY.
bearing date on or about the Twelfth day of March in the Sixteenth yeare of his reigne the other bearing date on or about the twenty nynth day of June in the Twenty sixth yeare of his said reigne TO BE held en- joyed Exercised & Executed by the said Edward Byl- ling his Heires & assignes And by his & their deputies officers Agents & Com'ission's as fully & amply to all intents constructions & purposes as the said Duke or his Heires might could or ought to hold enjoy use exercise & execute the same by vertue of the said Letters Patent or otherwise howsoever as in & by the said recyted Indenture inrolled in the High Court of Chancery relation being thereunto had may more at large appeare AND whereas the said Edward Bylling is since dead & the Heires of the said Edward Bylling have Transferred all the said powers jurisdictions au- thorities & Government of & in West New Jersey & other the p'misses aforesaid to the said Daniel Coxe his Heires and Assignes in which said Daniel Coxe the same are now vested AND whereas the said S' Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skin- ner James St Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Ab- bott Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michell Charles Michel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallett John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Edward 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 Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway have purchased of the said Daniel Coxe severall shares pro- prieties & Tracts of Land in West New Jersey aforesaid
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and elsewhere in America aforesaid and designe to lay out Considerable sum'es of money in improving & planting the said Province & p"misses And to establish a Convenient Governmt there NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that for the better accomplishmt of the purposes aforesª and for & in consideration of a com- petent sum'e of lawfull money of England to the said Daniel Coxe in hand paid by the said S' Thomas Lane Michel 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 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 Nehe- miah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracy Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway at or before the ensealing & delivery of these p'sents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said Daniel Coxe HATH Granted Transferred & assigned And by these p'sents doth grant transfere & assigne to 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 James Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Har- rington John Love Thomas Phipps John Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Morton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfeild John Alberson
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Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnet ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway ALL and every such & the same powers jurisdictions authorities & Govern- mt as & that were granted or intended to be granted by the said Duke of Yorke to the said Edward Bylling as aforesaid And by the Heires of the said Edward Bylling were granted to the said Daniel Coxe his heires & assignes within or in relation to West New Jersey & other the p"mises aforesaid To BE HELD en- joyed used Exercised & Executed 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 Mitchel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweet- able Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfeild John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnet ffrancis Mitchel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Er- wing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Nethe- way William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway their Heires & assignes and by their Deputies officers Agents & Com'ission's as fully & Amply to all intents Constructions & purposes as the said Edward Bylling and his Heires & the said Daniel Coxe & his Heires did might could or ought to hold enjoy use Exercise & Execute the same by force & vertue of the said Letters Patent and the said re- cyted Indenture or any of them or otherwise howso- ever AND the said Daniel Coxe for himself his Heires
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Executo's & Admin's doth Covenant grant & agree to & with the said S' Thomas Lane Michael Watts Ed- mond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Batters- ley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Mitchel James Boddington John Guston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love 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 Burnet ffrancis Mitchel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Rich- ard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracy Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway their Heires & Assignes that hee the said Daniel Coxe hath not Transferred assigned surrendered or forfeited all or any of the said Powers Authorities Jurisdictions & Governmt by these prsents ment'oned or intended to be granted nor done Com'itted nor willfully suf- fered any Act or thing whereby the same or any of them are or may be forfeited lost or destroyed AND that hee the said Daniel Coxe & his Heires & all & every other Person or Persons lawfully clayming or to clayme the said p"mises ment'oned to bee hereby Transferred or any of them from by or under or in Trust for him them or any of them shall & will from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing the space of Tenne yeares next ensueing the date of these p'sents upon the request & at the costs & charges in the Law of the said S' Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St. Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Bat- tersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Mitchel James Boddington John
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Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wight- man Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfield John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnet ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jona- than Netheway William Brooks Tracey Pauncefort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenway their Heires or Assignes Doe make & Execute or cause & procure to be made done & Executed all such further Acts Con- veyance & assurance in the Law whatsoever for the better transferring Conveying & Confirming to them 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 Mitchel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank William Thompson Henry Har- rington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Bromfeild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfield John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnet ffrancis Mitchel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracey Paunce- fort Joseph Allen & Richard Greenaway their Heires & Assignes the said Powers Jurisdictions Authorities & Governt & every of them as by the said ST Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skin- ner James Saint Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott 1
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Nicholas Battersley Robert Curtis John Jurin Richard Bromhall Robert Michel Charles Mitchel James Boddington John Gunston Arthur Shallet John Lamb William Wightman Joseph Brooksbank Wil- liam Thompson Henry Harrington John Love Thomas Phipps Isaac Cocks John Sweetable Thomas Brom- feild John Norton Robert Hackshaw John Bridges Joseph Paice Edward Richier William Dunch Edward Habbersfeild John Alberson Edward West Edward Pauncefort Obadiah Burnet ffrancis Michel Benjamin Steele John Slaney Nehemiah Erwing John Wilcocks Richard Mayo Jonathan Netheway William Brooks Tracy Pauncefort Joseph Allen and Richard Greena -- way their Heires or assignes or their or any of their Councell learned in the Lawes shall be reasonably devised or advised & required soe as the party to be required to doe the same be not Compelled to Travel further than the Cities of London & Westminster for doeing thereof And so as none of the said further Conveyances Contained in them any other or further Covenants or warrantyes than are herein conteyned IN WITNESSE whereof the parties abovenamed to these p'sents have interchangeably sett their hands & seales the day & yeare ffrst above written.
Sealed & Delivered by the withinnamed Daniel Coxe in the prsence of SAMLL RUSSELL JOHN HACKETT RALPH WITHERS
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Agreement of the Members of the West Jersey Society for the managing and improving of their lands.
[From West Jersey Records in Secretary of State's office at Trenton, Liber F2 page 342.
West Jersey Society agreement concerning their Lands &c in America.
Know all men by these Presents that whereas by Indenture bearing Date the Fourth day of March in the fourth Year of the Reign of Our Lord and Lady William and Mary over England Scotland France & Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the faith &c Anno Domini 1691:1 Daniel Cox of London Esq. did Assign Transferr and Convey to S' Thomas Lane of London Knight Michael Watts of London Merchant, Edmund Harrison of London Merchant, Thomas Skin- ner of Dewish in the County of Dorset Esq. Jas St John of London Goldsmith Nich& Hayward of London Gent. Mordecai Abbott of London Gent: Nicholas Battersley of London Mereht Robert Curtis of Lond. Gent. Jn.º Jurin of Lond. Merch Richª Bromhall of Lond. Gent: Robert Mitchell of Lond. Mercht Chas Mitchell of London Merch! Jag Boddington Citizen & Clothworker of Lond. Jn.º Gunston of Londo Merch! Arthur Shallet of Lond. Merch' Jn.º Lambe of Londo Mercht William Wightman of London Gent. Jos: Brooksbank Citizen and Haberdasher of Lond. W" Thompson of Londo Merch Henry Harrington of Lond. Mercht Jn.º Love of Lond. Merch' Tho: Phipps of Lond. Linnen Draper Isaac Cocke of Londo Merch' Taylor, Jnº Sweetapple of Lombard Street Goldsmith, Tho® Bromfield of
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. Lonº Gent. Jn.º Norton of Lond. Merch Rob Hack- shaw of Lond. Merch John Bridges of Londo Mercht Jos : Paice of Lond. Merch, Edward Richier of Londo . Merch Wm Dunch of Lincolns Inn in the County of Middlesex Esq", Edward Habberfield of the Middle Temple Lond. Gent: Jnº Alberson of Londo Merch, Edward West of Lonº Gent; Edwd Pansford of Lonº Gent: Obad! Burnet of Lond. Merchat, Fran& Michell of Lon. Citizen and Mercer. Benja Steele of Londo. Merch:, Jnº Slany of Lond. Mercht, Nehem? Erwing of Lond. Gent, Jnº Wilcoker of Lond. Merch Taylor Richª Mayo of Lond. Gent., Jona Netheway Citizen & Draper of London, W !. Brookes of Lond. Gent:, Tracy Pansford of Lond. Gent;, Joseph Allen of Lond. Gent., and Richard Greenaway Citizen & Clothworker of London the Hereditary Government of West Jersey in America,-AND WHEREAS by one other Indenture of Lease bearing Date the 3ª Day of March in the same Year the sª Daniel did Grant bargain & sell unto Jona- than Greenwood and Peter Guyon Several Lands and Tenements in West Jersey, East Jersey, Pensilvania, New England and other Parts and Places in America to hold the same for One Year-AND WHEREAS by one other Indenture of Release bearing Date the fourth day of March in the same Year the s.ª Daniel Coxe & Rebecca his Wife did Grant, Bargain, Sell, Alien, Transfer and Assign unto the aforesª Persons their Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns in such Proportions and for such Considerations as is therein mentioned several Lands, Tenements, Profitts, Com- modities & Appurtenances Lying and being in several Parts of America as in and by the ss three Recited Indentures Relation being thereunto had doth or may more at large appear Now as well for the better & more orderly Managing and Improving of the s.ª Heredi- tary Government Lands & Tenements as also for Our mutual Benefitt Profitt and Advantage We whose
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names are hereunto Subscribed do here by Covenant, Promise, Agree and Oblidge Ourselves Our Respective Heirs, Exects & Assigns separately And not jointly or one for [an] other to and with Each & every of the others of Us their & every of their Heirs, Exects, Admts & Assigns in manner & form following IMPRIMIS that We will from time to time & at all times when & as often as the major Part of Us or of Our Assigns shall think fitt to Order the same signified by their Votes in a General Assembly Pay or Cause to be Paid to the Treasurer for the time being our Quota parts & Pro- portions of all such sum or sums of money as the s.ª General Assembly or the major Part of them by their Votes shall Order & appoint for the Raising of a Stock or Fund as well for the Support of the sª Government and Carrying on a Trade to the sª Places in America as for the Promoting & Carrying on of several other Usefull and necessary Designs for Our mutual Advan- tage which Stock or Fund shall be divided into sixteen hundred equal Parts or Shares in the same manner Shares or Proportions to each and every one of Us as the sª Lands and Tenements are by the sª Deed of Release Limited and Expressed, provided always that the s.ª Sum or Sums so Ordered to be paid do not in the whole Exceed the Sum or Sums of Ten Pounds Sterling for each Share of the sª 1600 Parts or Shares and that also three Days Notice shall be Given to Each Proprietor when Money is to be rais'd & to be Exprest in their Summons that it is for raising of Money Item We hereby further Oblidge Ourselves our heirs Exccts Admts & Assigns as afª that in Case any of Us Our heirs Exccts or Assigns shall at any time Refuse or Neglect to pay in his or their Quota or Share of the Money so ordered within Thirty Days after it is Law- fully Demanded by any Person appointed by ye Com- mittee for the time being to Demand the same, he & they shall Loose & forfeit to the Use of all the others
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in Common their heirs or Assigns as well all his & their Interest & Share in the s.ª Government Lands, Tenements, Profits & Appurtenances as in such Stock or Fund as shall or may be paid by Us before the time of such refusal or Neglect of Payment together with all undivided Profitts or Advantages of the same Item that in Case of the Death of any of the Parties to these Presents no Benefitt of Survivorship shall be had or taken by the Survivors but the heirs Exects & Adm's respectively of the Person so Dying or their Assigns shall have and Enjoy his Part, Share & Pro- portion of the sª Lands, Tenements, Appurtenances, Stock & Profits as aforesª in as full and ample manner as if he or they were Living Item that all Dividends that shall be made of the Premises and Profitts shall be made according to the Several Shares and Propor- tions which each Person doth Possess at the time of such Dividends Item that whereas for the better managing and Improving of the sª Government Lands and Tenements and Carrying on the sª intended Trade & other Designs at Our General Meeting on the 21st day of March last S Thomas Lane Knight was Chosen Our President & Edm.ª Harrison. Esq! Our Vice President & Robt Hackshaw Our Treasurer and Daniel Cox, John Irwin, Mordecai Abbott ; Will" Dunch, Jn.º Bridges, W" Wightman, Nicholas Hayward, Edwd Richier, James Boddington, Rob Michell and James St John were chosen a Committee We do hereby Covenant and Agree as afª that the sª Persons shall be and Continue and Act as a Committee till the 25th day of March next ensueing the Date hereof Item that on the s.ª 25th March next Ensueing every Year unless it happen to fall on a Sunday and then it shall be on the 26th day of March the Generality of Us or Our Assigns shall & will meet to Choose a President or Governor Vice President or Deputy Governor a Treasurer & Eleven Committee Men or Assistants who shall Con-
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tinue & Constitute and be a Committee for one whole Year from thence next ensueing which choice shall be made by Plurality of Votes, that is to Say that each & Every of Us or Our Heirs, Exccts and Assigns shall for every Ten Shares he doth Possess at the time of such Choice have one Single Vote Provided always that no one Person shall have above Ten Votes be his Shares never so many, and that he that hath not at Least Ten Shares shall have no Vote, PROVIDED ALSO that no Person shall be Capable of being Chosen of the s.ª Committee unless he hath & doth actually Pos- sess according to the Society's Books at least Twenty Shares & in the s' Choice it shall & may be Lawfull for any of Us our Heirs, Exccts or Assigns who Can- not Conveniently Attend the sª General Meeting to send his or their Votes by any Persons Signifiying the Same by a Note under his or their hands Directed to the President or Governor or to the Vice President or Deputy Governor for the time being Item that as well the sª Committee that is already Chosen as all other Committees that shall or may Succeed them or the major Part of any such Five or more of them as shall Assemble in their usual Place of Meeting shall be Enabled and are hereby Impowered to Lett and Sell any Lands and Tenements and Appurtenances, Elect and Chuse a Deputy Governor for West Jersey & all other Factors Officers and Servants either beyond the Seas or in England and to Assertain their Salarys, Wages & Gratuitys & to Cause the Treasurer for the time being to Pay any Sum or Sums of the Socitys Money and to Buy; Sell, Trade, Build, Plant & do Per- form or Cause to be done and Performed all and every other Lawfull Act and Acts Thing or Things as to them shall seem meet and fit for Promoteing Our Common Benefitt which Act or Acts so done or Per- form'd We hereby Promise, Covenant and Agree to hold for good firm and valuable and to be Concluded
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by the same, Item that Twenty Shillings shall be allowed & Paid by the Treasurer for the time being to the Committee for their Attendance at every Meeting to be Disposed among them that meet in such Manner and to such Persons as they shall Appoint Item that no Person shall make any Tranferr of any Part of his Interest or Shares but in the Companys Books and upon the Acceptance of the Buyer & Produceing of a Receipt from the Seller that the Money is Paid and that upon makeing of every such Transferr and Acceptance two Shillings and Six Pence shall be paid by the Buyer & the like Sum by the Seller to the Secretary for his Own Use & upon the first Admission of any new Member to be of the Society he shall Pay Ten Shillings to the Treesurer for the time being for the Use of the Society and shall Sign and Seal these Presents in the Companys Book of Subscriptions, Item that the Shares of each & every of Us Our Heirs and Assigns shall be Liable to make good all such Debts as are Owing by him or them to the sª Society and also to make good all such Damages and Detri- ments as any of Us or Our Assigns shall Cause or Occasion to the Society in General by his their or any of their wilfull Acts or Defaults Item that the Com- panys Accounts shall be Stated once a year by the Committee and Presented to the General Court who may if they think fitt Chuse Auditors to Inspect and Examine the sª Accounts, Item that all such future Orders, Votes, Agreements & Appointments as shall be at any time Ordered and Agreed to by the General Assembly or the major Part of them being Entered in the Minute Book of the Society and read over before their Departure shall be as firm, binding and valuable as if they were actually Subscribed by the sª General Assembly or every individual Person of Them. Dated in London the fourth day of April Anno. 1692 :-
Thomas Lane Ø Isaac Cocks Joseph Brooksbank
Edmund Harrison Nich Hayward @ Ar' Shallett
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Robert Hackshaw D Willm Dunch
Joseph Allen
Mordecai Abbott
@ Hen! Harrington
I John Sweetapple @
James St John
m Will™ Thompson
@ Michael Watts
Edwd Richier Ja: Boddington
Cha? Michel
Will™ Wightman
Robt Curtis
Fra: Paunceforte
Obadiah Burnet
Nich& Battersley
D John Norton
Fran& Michel
John Gunston
Nehe: Earning
Joseph Paice
John Slany
Will: Brookes
John Bridges
Ben: Steele
D Rich! Greenaway @
John Irwin
@ Tho: Phipps
ID Rob: Michel
John Albertson
Edward West
John Love
Tho: Skinner
@ John Whiting
NOTE-M" John Lamb Sold & Transferr'd his Shares to M. John Slany who signed the foregoing Articles- M. Edward Habersfield Sold & Transferr'd his Shares to M' John Whiting who Signed the foregoing Articles-M. John Wilcocks Sold and Tranferr'd his Shares to St. Thomas Lane who Signed the foregoing Articles M. Richard Mayo Sold and Transferr'd his Shares to M' John Irwin who Signed the foregoing Articles-
NOTE ALSO-That the Shares belonging to M' Richd Bromhall, M: Thos Bromfield, M. Edwd Paunceforte & M! Jonathan Netheway are still remaining in their own Names-
The Originals Articles of Agreement whereof the foregoing is a true Copy are Entered and Recorded at the begining of the Transfer Book belonging to the West New Jersey Society and there Sign'd and Sealed by the Respective Persons before mentioned Witness my hand this 21st October, 1742.
JOHN STEPHENSON.
John Stephenson of London Gentleman maketh Oath That the Paper Writing hereunto annexed Pur- porting to be Articles of Agreement is a true Copy of such Articles as appears from the Original with which
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this Deponent has Carefully Examin'd the Same, Which sª Original Articles are Entered & Recorded at the Begining of the Transfer Book belonging to the West New Jersey Society and is Signed & Sealed by the Respective Persons therein mentioned.
Sworn the 21st of October JOHN STEPHENSON
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GEO: HEATHCOTE Mayor
To all to whom these Presents shall Come I George Heathcote Esq: Lord Mayor of the City of London In Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made & Passed in the fifth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord King George the Second, Instituted an Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in his Majesties Plantations and Colonies in America Do hereby Certify That on the day of the Date hereof personally Came & Appear'd before me John Stephenson of London Gen- tleman being a Person well known & worthy of good Creditt and by solemn Oath which he then took before me upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, Did solemnly and sincerely Declare Testify and Depose to be true, the Several Matters & things mentioned & Contained in the Original Affidavit hereunto Annexed.
In Faith and Testimony whereof I the s! LS Lord Mayor have Caused the Seal of the office of Mayoralty of the sª City of London to be hereunto Putt & Affixed ; And the Paper Writing mentioned & Referred to in & by the sª Affidavit to be hereunto also Annexed.
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