ye number of twelv and ye sd Twelve some time afterwards did Bargaine & sell one Moyetie thereof wth a Proportionable Right of Goverment unto James Earle of Perth John Drumond of Lundie Esq: Robert Barclay of Urie Esq and others to ye Number of twelve more And Whereas his said Royall Highnes James Duke of York in ye thirtieth & fifth year of his sd Majties Reigne did Grant a Confirmat'on of the afors'd tract of Land called East New Jersey wth all ye Jurisdictions and Powers of Governing the same unto y s" James Earl of Perth John Drumond of Lundie Robert Barclay & others to ye number of Twentie four Grantees all wh by ye above recited Letters Patents Deeds & remaining upon ye Publique Records of ye s Province of East New Jersey Doth more at Large appear Now Know yee that we the said Robert Burnett Miles Forster John Johnston David Lyell Tho's Warne Tho's Gordon Michaell Houdon & Jn Barclay Grantees and Ppr's by mean conveyances Derived under his s Royall Highness Out of our Duty love and Alledgance we ow unto our Now dread Saveraigne L William ye third by ye Grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of y ffaith & Have ffreely Volentarly for ourselves & our heirs & so far as we are capable for our fellow Ppr's Resigned & Surrendred & by these presents Doth Resigne & Surrender all y authorities jurisdictions & Powres of Govermt yt we have or can pretend to have in ye s Province of East New Jersey by Vertue of the above recited Letters Patents Grants & Conveyances howsoever devized to us by mean conveyances or otherways unto our sd Soveraigne La & King William ye third & to his Royall Successors Kings of England at all times to come forever hereafter In Testimony Whereof wee have to these presents sett our hands & seales and have hereunto affixed the Publick Seall of the s Province of East New Jersey the Nintenth day of June in the thirtenth year of the Reigne of our s" Soveraign L Willm ye 3 over Eng &ca King an'oqe Dom' one Thousand Seven Hundred & one' David Lyoll LS LS Mites Forster John Barclay LS LS Bol Burnet,.. Whisk Handon Pho: Affarme Ꮪ LS John Johnstone LS LS 1 The surrender was effected on April 13, 1702. As the instrumnet appears in Smith's New Jersey, pp 211-219, Lewis Morris signed for the parties to this surrender, which gave place to the more perfect document then executed.-ED. Memorial of Jeremiah Basse to the Lords of Trade, asking for a consideration of the Memorials and Letters in their hands relating to the government of East and West Jersey. [From P. R. O. B. T., Proprieties, Vol. 6. G. 19.] TO THE RIGHT HONORBLE THE LORDS COMSRS OF THE COUNCILL OF TRADE &° THE HUMBLE MEMORIALL of Jeremiah Bass on behalfe of his Majestys province of East New Jersie. May it please your Lordshipp The hopes of haveing the disorders of the Jersies happily concluded by the Parliments reasu:neing of the Proprietary Governments into the hands of his Majesty being for this Session Vacated Ocations me afresh to Solicit your Lordships on the behalfe of that vnhappy Province Intreateing your Lordships to Review the humble Address or Remonstrance of the saide province presented to his Majesty & by him Refered to your Lordship Consideration together with those Subsequent Memorialls & Letters in which the miserable Condition of the saide Inhabitants is layde before your Lordships amongst whome as I have formerly Informed your Lordships not so much as the Shadow of Law or Government remaines the Proprietors haveing Vacated the Comiss'on granted to Andrew Hammilton Esq; & giveing another which cannot without his Majesty's Aprobation have any force to the determinateing of the differences of that Province but rather tending to the increaseing of the same. I dare not venture to prescribe methods to your Lordships. butt am humbly of the opinion if those provinces of the Jersies with the Lower Counties of Pensilvania were by a spetiall Com'ission from his Majesty considering the preasant exigence of afaires putt vnder the Conduct of some person knowing in the afaires of the Country itt might intirely conduce not onely to the preasant quieting of those places butt the preventing of those Illegall practisses wheareby his Majestys Revennue is diminished Illegall trade increased & his Majestys Subjects in those parts Oppressed I begg your Lordshipps to pardon my presumption & to believe that none more truely desires the Settlement of those Collonies on such A foundation that his Majesty's Revennue might be secured & the people in their legall trade & Industrie Incoraged Then Rec 20 June 1701 Your Lordship: Most humble Serv J. BASS. Memorial from Jeremiah Basse to the Lords of Trade, relating to the Government of New Jersey. [From P. R. O. B. T., Proprietors, Vol. 6, G 22.] TO THE RIGHT HONORA BLE THE LORDS COM OF THE COUNCIL OF TRADE & May itt please Your Lordships The complaintes of the disorders & irregularities of the proprietary & Charter Collonies Still increaseing & itt being the opinion of this Board that It is of absolute nessecity that the Legislative power of the nation is onely capable of provideing Sutable remedies for so great evills by reasumeing the powers of Government & placeing them in the hands of his Majesty. In order to the attaineing this end I would humbly propose to Your Lordshipps: That a Commission of Inspection into the State & Complaints of the Proprietary & charter Governments might be granted to such person or persons as your Lordships shall Judge fit for such a servis with sutable [powers] to Enquire Into: The severall trangressions of the acts of trade & The Encouragement & entertainement of pyrates The deniall of appeals to England The raiseing & faleing of Coyne to the damage of the neighboring Colonies The quantitys of Tobbacos yearely made in the Three Lower Countys of pensilvania & how & by whome shipped with the places wheare. The State of their militia & courtes of law The boundaries of Pensilvania mad particulerly wheare M' Penn's patent limited to the latitude of fourty degrees takes its begining on Delawar river That a true acco' may be given of the quantity, of lands surveyed outt of the bounds the one halfe of the quit rents being due & reserved to his Majesty. The Refuge that hath been given by any of those proprietary or Charter Colonies to fugitive Sailers Soldiers or Servants & And to make returnes of those enquiries with the proofe's against the next Session of the Parliment by which not onely your Lordships but that honorable Assembly may be thoroughly aquainted with the true state of those Colonies & better enabled to make a due regulation & settlement of them. This My Lords as It would be butt of Little expense to his Majesty So itt is humbly Conceived would be highly Servisable towards the prevention of the growing evills of those Colonies all which humbly Submitted to Your Lordships Consideration By Your Lordship' most humble Sertt [July 15th 1701] J BASS |