Lon Gent. Jn Norton of Lond. Merch Rob Hackshaw of Lond° Merch! John Bridges of Lond° Merch! Jo: Paice of Londo Merch, Edward Richier of Lond Merch! W Dunch of Lincolns Inn in the County of Middlesex Esq., Edward Habberfield of the Middle Temple Lond Gent: Jn Alberson of Lond. Merch, Edward West of Lon Gent; Edw Pansford of Lon Gent: Obad Burnet of Lond° Merchat, Fran Michell of Lon Citizen and Mercer. Benj Steele of Londo Merch, Jn Slany of Lond Merch, Nehem" Erwing of Londo Gent, Jno Wilcoker of Londo Merch Taylor Rich Mayo of Londo Gent., Jon Netheway Citizen & Draper of London, W Brookes of Londo 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 3 Day of March in the same Year the s Daniel did Grant bargain & sell unto Jonathan 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 Daniel Coxe & Rebecca his Wife did Grant, Bargain, Sell, Alien, Transfer and Assign unto the afores Persons their Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns in such Proportions and for such Considerations as is therein mentioned several Lands, Tenements, Profitts, Commodities & Appurtenances Lying and being in several Parts of America as in and by the s 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 Hereditary Government Lands & Tenements as also for Our mutual Benefitt Profitt and Advantage We whose

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 & Proportions of all such sum or sums of money as the s 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 s Government and Carrying on a Trade to the s Places in America as for the Promoting & Carrying on of several other Usefull and necessary Designs for Our mutual Advantage 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 s Lands and Tenements are by the s Deed of Release Limited and Expressed, provided always that the s 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 s 1600 Parts or Shares and that also three Days Notice shall be Given to Each Proprietor when Money is to be rais' & 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 Lawfully Demanded by any Person appointed by y Committee for the time being to Demand the same, he & they shall Loose & forfeit to the Use of all the others

in Common their heirs or Assigns as well all his & their Interest & Share in the sa 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 & Proportion of the s Lands, Tenements, Appurtenances, Stock & Profits as afores 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 Proportions which each Person doth Possess at the time of such Dividends Item that whereas for the better managing and Improving of the s 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 Harrison Esq! Our Vice President & Rob Hackshaw Our Treasurer and Daniel Cox, John Irwin, Mordecai Abbott; Will Dunch, Jn Bridges, W Wightman, Nicholas Hayward, Edwa Richier, James Boddington, Rob Michell and James St John were chosen a Committee We do hereby Covenant and Agree as af that the s 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 sd 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

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 Committee unless he hath & doth actually Possess 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 Cannot Conveniently Attend the s 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 s 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 Perform 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 Perform'd We hereby Promise, Covenant and Agree to hold for good firm and valuable and to be Concluded

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 s Society and also to make good all such Damages and Detriments 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 Companys Accounts shall be Stated once a year by the Committee and Presented to the General Court who may if they think fitt Ch se Auditors to Inspect and Examine the s 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 Subscrib" by the s General Assembly or every individual Person of Them. Dated in London the fourth day of April Anno. 1692:— Thomas Lane Edmund Harrison Nich Hayward

Isaac Cocks

Joseph Brooksbank

Ar' Shallett