cil, to Governor Pownall, in answer to the foregoing 262 26.-Letter from Courtland Skinner, Attorney-General, to Governor Pownall-with answers to queries sub- mitted to him by the Council, relative to the au- thority of John Reading as President of that body.. 264 26.-Letter from Lieutenant-Governor Pownall to the NEW JERSEY COLONIAL DOCUMENTS. Memorial responsive to the representations made by those concerned in the disturbances in New Jersey. [From Papers of Robert Hunter Morris in N. J. Hist. Lib., Vol. I, No. 84.] NEW JERSEY. [1751] FROM September 1745 that Province has been under the greatest Disorders, and the Infection spreading and gathering Strength, in a Country, where, as the Lords of Trade have reported, "The People are, in a "particular Manner, by Principle, averse to kingly Gov"ernment, and have, always, taken every Opportunity "of trampling upon the Authority of the Crown." THE State of that Province is thus reported, by the Lords of Trade; "His Majesty's Province of New Jer"sey is, at present, in open Rebellion; and, unless "some speedy, and effectual Measures are soon taken, "his Majesty's Government, Laws, and Authority, "not only in this, but in the neighbouring Provinces, "whose Inhabitants, for the most part, are but too "well inclined to receive the Infection, will, in all “Probability, be absolutely destroyed.”] AND, again, a second Time; "This Province is in a "State of entire Disobedience to all Authority of "Government and Law, attended with Circumstances "which manifest a Disposition to revolt from their De"pendance on the Crown of Great Britain.” |