1685 June 16th. Ordered that Tenn pounds upon Every Propriety be payed into Stock for Defraying the Great Charges for Negotiating Our publique affaires of the Province at Court among Offercers and Ministers Lawyers &c: Rob Barclay atending here many months and much Expense in Variety of business requireing it Ordered that ffive pounds upon Every Propriety be paid into Stock there being money Due to Seaverall & no Cash to pay them nor ffund for the Defraying the nessary publick Charges. February 2d. 1687 Ordered that Tenn poundes Novem❜br 1st upon Every Propriety be payed into Stock their haveing been Great Charges among Lawyers Surveyors &c." About the Dispute Difference and Settlement at Last of the Line of Partic'on 'twixt the two Pro: the two provinces & being in Debt for Sundrie billes & accots for money payed to Defray Varietie of Charges on the publique affairs of the p'vince. 10. 00. 00 05.00.00 10. 00. 00 £55.00.00 I William Dockwra Secretary and Rigister of y Province above said having Exam": ye Court books of ye Com'itte or Councill of Propr's Do find that the Seaverall Rates & Sumes above menc'oned are Layed upon Every p'pr according to his respective Share & p'porconall Interest in ye sd p'vince & stand entered in ye sd books on the p'ticular Dayes noted in yo margine hereof and signed by y members p'sent at Every Com'ittee or Councill and I further Declare that I have Exam ye accts & find that all the p'pers residing in & about Lond (and myself among ye rest) have payed the Sd sume of ffiftie ffive poundes apeice in to Cash & to prorate for a half p'prty more or less (Excepting Wm Penn Esq! who has payed only fforty ffive pounds and is only Ten pounds in arrear) and Lastly it appears that the p'prs are severall y Out of Pocket here in Lond° and Growing Incident Charges On the Publique acco are unavoidable (in less ye concernes of the Province be abandoned & suffered to sink) to Defray wch an Order was made & Entered in the sd books the 19th of June 1688 altho not yet payed regularly (as allso the fformer have been) by the p'prs here most of them being weary of bearing the burthen so many Yeares while most beyond sea are in such arrears but the Last menc'oned Tenn poundes the p'prs see a nesessity to be payed in by all those here to reimburse them that have Layed out their money This is the True State of this Case. Certified at Lond: under the seal of the p'vince ye 23d of Sr 1690, Annoq. Reg: Wm & Mary 2a. & Sic Subscribetur WILL DOCKWRA Sect & Register This is a true Coppie of what was sent to E: Jersey by Coll Hamilton Apr: 11th: 1692 being the True Coppie of that Dated 23d of Sbr: 1690. So that what Those in and about Lond" have allreadye payed upon Each p'prietie is £55: 00. and the Tenn pounds Entered in June '88 be not Yet paid in because they stayed in Expectation that those in Arrears would have setled but have not & those here have some of them Layed out their money. .... so that shortly this tenn pound must be p'd in & then Every p'p'r is £65: This is a true Coppie taken this 9th 1 Initials of George Willocks. Appended to the Document is an affidavit of Cortlandt Skinner, dated October 12th, 1767, that he believes the copy to have been made by Willocks, and that it came into his, Skinner's, possession through his father, the Rev'd. Wm. Skinner, who was executor of Willocks' estate. -ED. Release of West Jersey, from Daniel Coxe' and Wife, to the West Jersey Society. [West Jersey Records, Secretary of State's Office, Trenton. Liber B, page 291.] Release from Daniel Coxe Esq' & Rebecca his Wife to Jonathan Greenwood & Peter Guyon to the Severall uses of Sr Thomas Lane Mich!! Watts and the rest of the Society. This Indenture made the fourth day of March Anno D'm 1691 And in the ffourth yeare of the Reign of our Sou'aign Lord & Lady William & Mary by the Grace of God King & Queen of England Scotland ffrance & Ireland defenders of the ffaith y Betweene Daniel Coxe Esq' Governo' & Chiefe Proprietor of new west Jersy & other adjacent Lands & Territoryes thereunto belonging in America and Rebecca his wife of the first part Jonathan Greenwood & Peter Guyon of London Citizens of the Second part And S: Thomas Lane of London Knight Michael Watts of London M'chant Edmond Harrison of London Merch' Thomas Skinner of Derolisk in the County of Dorsett Esq' James St Johns of London Goldsmith Nicholas Hayward of London Gent Mordecai Abbott of London Gent Nicholas Battersley of London Merchant Robert Curtis of London Gen' John Jurin of London M'chant Richard. 1 DANIEL COXE, M. D., of London, held a prominent place at Court, being physician to the Queen of Charles II. and also to Queen Anne. His first interest in West Jersey seems to have been acquired in February 1686, by the purchase of five whole shares of the province, from Benjamin Bartlett the son-in-law of Edward Byllynge, and subsequently, by various conveyances obtained the control of the whole, and-Byllinge having died-assumed the government In 1687. He seems to have continued at its head, until the appointment of Andrew Hamilton in 1692, having appointed first Edward Hunloke, and then John Tatham as his deputies, but the latter the assembly of the province rejected, Hunloke continuing in office -Clements Notes and Memoranda. Mulford's New Jersey, p. 266.-ED. Bromhall of London Gent Robert Michel of London M'chant 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 William Wightman of London Gent Joseph Brooksbank Citizen & Haberdasher of London William Thompson of London M'chant John Love of London M'chant Thomas Phipps of London-Linnendrap Isaac Cocks of Lon don M'chant Taylor John Sweetable of Lombard Street Goldsmith Thomas Bromfield of London Gent John Norton of London M'chant Robert Hackshaw of London M'chant John Bridges of London M'chant Joseph Paice of London M'chant Edward Richier of London Mercer William Dunch of Lincolns Inn in the County of Midde Esq' Edward Habbersfeild of the Middle Temple London Gent John Alberson of London M'chant Edward West of London Gent Edward Pauncfort of London Gent Obadiah Burnett of London M'chant ffrancis Michel of London Cittizen & Mercer Benjamin Steele of London M'chant John Slaney of London M'chant Nehemiah Erwing of London Gent John Wilcocks of London M'chant Taylor Richard Mayo of London Gent Jonathan Netheway Cittizen & Drap of London William Brookes of London Gent Tracy Pauncfort of London Gent Joseph Allen of London Silkman & Richard Greenaway Cittizen & Cloothworker of London of the Third part Whreas the said Daniel Coxe or some other Person or Persons in Trust for him now are & stand seized in their or some or one of their Demean as of ffee simple of & in Diverse Large Tracts of Land & Territoryes in America together with diverse beneficiall rights priviledges Immunities & Appurtenances relating to or used with the same situate & being in the severall Counties & Provinces of West New Jersey East New Jersey Pensilvania merrimac & elsewhere in America aforesaid The ffee simple of all estate & inhabitants of all which said Lands Territoryes and premises and all other the Lands Tenemts & Hereditamts whatsoever of him the said Daniel Coxe in America hereby granted & released or intended to be hereby granted & released Except as is herein after Excepted the said St Thomas Lane Michael Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner James St Johns Nicholas Hayward Mordecai Abbott Nicholas Batterley 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 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 Have for the Consideration of Nine Thousand Eight Hundred pounds herein afore mentioned agreed to purchase to them and their Heires in such proportion manner & forme as are herein after expressed Now this Indenture Witnesseth that for & in Consideation of Tenn Shillings of lawfull money of England by the said Jonathan Greenwood & Peter Guyon to him the said Daniel Coxe in hand paid at or before the ensealing & delivery of these pres'nts the receipt whereof the said Daniel Coxe doth hereby acknowledge And in Consideration of the sume of ffour Thousand Eight Hundred pounds of like money to him' to him the said Daniel Coxe paid by the said S Thomas Lane Michel Watts Edmond Harrison Thomas Skinner So in original. |