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[Account of Disbursements by the Proprietors of East Jersey Continued.]

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To T Gordon 1697.
The Interest at 6 p'Cent to 98.
William Bingley Anno 1086.
The Interest at 6 p'Cent to 1698.
Robt. Gordon Dec'd) anno 1684..
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The Interest at six p'Cent
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Dr. Dan'll Cox Anno 1688.
The Interest at 6 p'Cent to 1698.
The West Jersey Company 96.
p'd to Mr. Sonmans.

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Sr. J'nr Gordon p D: B 1685.

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[Account of Disbursements by the Proprietors of East Jersey Continued.]

William Gibson Anno 1683.

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Proclamation of Governor Basse, for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality.

[From a copy among the MSS of W. A. Whitehead.]

BY THE GOVERNOR A PROCLAMATION'

IT being very necessary for the good & prosperity of this Province that our principal care be in obedience to the laws of God & the wholesome laws of this Province to endeavor as much as in us lyeth the exterpation of all sorts of looseness & prophanitie & to unite & Join in the fear & love of God & of one another that by the religious and vertuous carriage & behavior of every one in his respective station & calling all heats & animosities & dissentions may vanish, & the blessing of Almighty God accompany our honest & lawfull endeavours & that we may Join our affections in the true support of his majesties Government over us who has so often & so generously exposed his royal person to iminent dangers to redeem us from the growing power of Popery and Arbitrary Government and hath by a singular blessing attending his endeavors procured our deliverance & a happy & honorble peace & is a great example & incourager of Religion and virtuous living I have therefore thought fit by & with the advice of the councill of this Province of East New Jersey strictly to prohibit all inhabi. tants & sojourners within this Province from cursing swearing immoderate drinking Sabbath breaking & all sorts of lewdness & prophane behavior in word or action and for the true and effectual performance hereof I do by and with the advice aforesaid strictly

1 His first official act, by order of his Council at a meeting held the day after his arrival at Perth Amboy.-See Journal of Proceedings of Governor and Council 1682-1703, p. 197.-ED.

charge & command all Justices of the Peace Sheriffs Constables & all other officers within this Province that they take due care that all the laws made & Provided for the suppressing of Vice & encouraging of Religion & virtue particularly the observation of the Lord's Day be duly put in execution as they will answer the contrary at their peril. Given under the seale of said Province this eighth day of April Anno Dom. 1698. in the tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the third over England &c. King.

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Coppy of a Lett" sent home by the Councell of West New Jersey.

May it please yo' Hon" BURLINGTON Apr 14th 1698 Our Letter to yo' Hon" of the 23 of Decemb! last past may in Some measure evidence our great joy at the appearance here on the 12th inst of ye Hon'ble Coll! Basse in the quality of Governo! for which Post he

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brought your Com'ission which the same day he Opened to the Councell & by their advice forthwth published it: But a faithful transcript of those transactions, we passed between the Late Gov!no! & Representatives on the one part, & ye Councell of the Other the first designing by all Such Mediums as they thot Safe to make use of, to defeat not only, yo' present Com'ission but yo! Authority also: for the future, over the province, the other Studious to Obviate & Baffle such designe, wold more Sensibly comemorate y reasonableness of our Motives for such our Joy: and the Natural & necessary inducements wee had, to applaud and Congratulate o' Common happiness; in Soe Seasonable a Change then any expressions our tongues or Pens can pretend to be capable of. On which acco" wee Could not forbear to close with the first opp'tunity to make you a Cordiall tender of our thanks having plenary assurance y' dureing his Administration, Vertue will be cherished & encouraged merits Discriminated, and Vice Subdued, and Such prudent measures taken to promote the generall Welfare of the province in all respects as will prove effectuall in theire Application and that hee will neither abbet, encourage, or connive, at pervertion of Judgm in the majesticty, or Suffer oppression to pass unpunished His Conduct & principles & his long experience of the Constitution of this Province, and of the peoples tempers & interest therein, has largely qualified him to answer that excellent performance & raised of expectations beyond the degrees of hopes even to the enjoyment of an assurance of it. And yett Such rude perversness has seized and Captivated that Class of people called Quakers yt not one of that Rank wold set one foot forward to meet him upon the Road or Conduct him into Town (the notice was given long before of his Coming at a prefixt day) nor pay Soe much Regard to his person or quality as the

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