[On the back of the foregoing document.] I the within named John Barclay doe hereby Solemnly promise to beare true alleageance to King William and Queene Marie King & Queen over England &c theire heires and Successors, and be true and faithfull to the interest of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of East new Jersey and to theire heires Executors & assignes, and I will endeavour the pease and welfaire of the said Province, And I will well and faithfully discharge the office of surveyor generall in the said Province, And doe equall Justice unto all men according to my best skill and Judgement without corruption favour or affection witness my hand this first day of the month called November 1692. Coram me AND: HAMILTON JOHN BARCLAY Instructions from the Proprietors of East Jersey in London, to Governor Andrew Hamilton'. [From the Original among the manuscripts of W. A. Whitehead.] INSTRUCCIONS from the Proprietors of East New Jersey Residing in London to Coll. Andrew Hamilton Governor of the said Provincetouching their Quit Rents. 1st Some short time after your arrival in the said Province You are to cause the Secretary and Receiver General of the said Province to make true Rent Rolls or Schedules of all the Quit Rents reserved and payable to the Proprietors from any Towne Freeholders 1 For notice of Governor Hamilton see Vol. I., p. 509. -ED, and Inhabitants within the several Counties of the said Province, viz! One distinct Rent Roll or more for every County, and so set down therein what quantities of Land Each Town or person holds under those Rents and the dates of their respective Patents and to remit such Rent Rolls to us. 21 You are to order the said Receiver General to remit to us by the next opportunity an exact account of all Arrears of Rent due to the Proprietors and from whom and for what time such Arrears are Incurred. 3ly You are to take care that the Receiver Generall shall yearly remit to us an Acco! of all new Tenants that shall take up Land upon Quit Rents and of all Quit Rents he shall receive To the Intent the Proprietors may take order for the distribution of the said Rents. 4 You are to cause our Receiver Generall forthwith to demand all arrears of Quit Rents due to the Proprietors from any Towns or particular persons in the Province And if any Town or particular person shall refuse to pay such Quit Rents or to secure the same to your good liking you are to order our Receiver general to distrain upon the goods and Chattels of such Town or Towns and Persons and in default of distress to sue them in due Course of Law for the Recovery of Such Quit Rents. 5 Whereas our Quit Rents are now payable in the Products of the Country, and it often falls out that the planters have not in readiness such Product of y Country as will exactly answer the value of their rents, whereby differences sometimes arise betwixt our Receiver general and the Planters, who are apt to think they part with their goods under the Market Prise. For y prevencon therefore of all misunderstandings which may otherwise arise upon that acco You are to propose to all the Towns Freeholders and Planters within the said Province who do or have their Elec'con to pay us any Quit Rent in the Product of the Country That if they or any of them will pay down or secure to your good liking all their arrears owing by them and pay their Rents hereafter to grow due on the Five and Twentieth day of March yearly or within One and Twenty days after in money, To our Receiver General for the time being or his deputy at such place or places as he shall appoint, Such persons shall have for the future an abatement or deduccon after the rate of Ten Pounds per Cent of their Quit Rerts they shall so pay in And if the Townes Freeholds and Planters or any of them shall agree to such a Proposall You are to Enter such agreem upon Record in the public Register of Our Province, or to get it passed into an act by the General Assembly as you and the Persons agreeing shall think fitt. And of this you are to give public notice by causing copies of this to be posted in the public places of all the Principal Towns within Our Province as soon as may be after your arrival there And to enter these Instrucc'ons in the Public Register of the Province. Given under the seal of the Province of East New Jersey in London this ninth day of Aprill. Anno Domim 1692. Signed by order of the Proprietors WILL DOCKWRA, Agent Secr and Reg! Commission to Colonel Andrew Hamilton, to be Governor of West Jersey. [From West Jersey Records in Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, Liber. B1 p 287 (B2 p 657). 1 To our trusty and welbeloved friend Colonel Andrew Hamilton. Greeting WHEREAS the Hereditary Governm1 of the Province of West New Jersey in America by due & Legall Right was lately vested in Daniel Cox Esq' and by Conveyance duely executed hath beene by him assigned and Transferred to St Thomas Lane Knight Edmond Harrison Esq' and severall others rightfully thereunto and that by Authority from them under their hands & seales toee the underwritten being chosen their Comittee and impowered to nominate Constitute and appoint such Deputy Governo" for the well ordering and Governing the said Province as to us shall seeme meet And wee haveing great Confidence in the Ability Prudence and integrity of you the said Andrew Hamilton Have nominated Cons ituted and appointed and doe hereby nominate Constitute & appoint You our Com'issioner and Deputy Governor of the said Province. Giving you full power and Authority to order & Governe the same together with all the Isles Islands Rivers and Seas within the same or belonging thereto And to doe all and every thing and things which to the charge and office of a Governo doth appertayne for the space or Terme of one whole year from the date of these p'esents and soe long after untill some other person bee nominated and Constituted Deputy Governo' in your roome by another Comission sent from London and arrived in the said Province there to be published on which this p'esent Com'issione to be voyd Com'anding all inferiour officers both Civill and Military to obey You the said Andrew Hamilton as our Com'issioner or Deputy Governo according to this our Com'ission and the powers hereby given you and according to the Laws and Constitutions made or confirmed and to be made or confirmed by us which you the said Deputy Governour are your selfe to observe and follow as to your duty and office doth appertayne as also to observe & fullfill all such orders as shall be made & sent to you by us or the Com'ttee for the time being under the Public Seale of the said Province And further we do give you the said Andrew Hamilton power to nominate and appoint by Com'ission under your hand and Seale a Com'issione under you to serve in the said Province during your necessary absence therefrom but noe longer Hee the said Sub Com'ission' observing and fullfilling all such orders as shall be made & sent under the said Publick Seale by us or the Com❜ttee for the time being and Governing according to the Lawes & Constitutions of the said Province Given in London under o hands & the Publick Seals of the said Province of West New Jersey this Eleventh day of Aprill Anno Domini 1692 And in the ffourth yeare of the Reigne of our Sov'aigne Lord & Lady William and Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland ffrance & Ireland King and Queene Defenders of the ffaith &c: LOCUS SIGILL Thos: Lane Rob Hackshaw James St |