People of that Government have Encroached on the lands within the limitts of this Province and thereby dispossessed many of his Majestys Subjects Inhabiting therein of their unquestionable Rights, under pretence that the said Lands so by them possessed & Claimed were within the limitts of New York Government, And also Offered divers outrages & Insults to many of the Officers of Your Excellency's Government in the actual discharge of their Dutys & Commissions within the undoubted bounds of this Province, And Caused many of them to pay quitt Rents and other Taxes for lands certainly within this Province of New Jersey held under the proprietors thereof, And as We Imagine that the many inconveniencys the Inhabitants in that part of this Province undergo are principally owing to the Division line not being run pursuant to the Acts of Assembly for that purpose made in both the said Provinces.

WE most humbly desire Your Excellencys Assistance & Interest in the procureing the said line to be run Between the said Provinces in such manner as to Your Excellency shall seem most proper & in the mean time to use Your Excellencys influence to put a Stop to all Outrages & unjust proceeding by the Government of York against the Inhabitants of this Province

[Under date of June 28th 1742, no action having been taken by the Governor on the above representation, he was again appealed to by the Council of Proprietors of East Jersey: they said "As there was at that

Time a Governor daily expected at New York, it was then thought proper to let the Affair rest till he should arrive, But as no Governor of New York is yet arrived, and the present unsettled Situation of Affairs in England renders it uncertain when any will, the unhappy Differences now subsisting between the Inhabitants of New Jersey and New York, occasioned by the said Partition Line being yet unsettled, and which seem to threaten dangerous Consequences, oblige us, Sir, to remind you of our former Petition We therefore pray Your Excellency to write to the present Lieutenant Governour of New York to join with Your Excellency in endeavouring to bring the Settlement of the aforesaid line to a Speedy Conclusion."]-ED.

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Representation of the Council and Assembly of New Jersey to Governor Morris-relative to encouragement for the making of iron.

[From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. IV, F. 46 x 47.)

To His Excellency Lewis Morris Esq Captain General & Governour in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the Same &c.

The Humble Representation of His Majesty's Council and the House of Representatives of the Province of New Jersey in General Assembly met and Convened.

May it please Your Excellency.

We the Council and House of Assembly beg leave to Represent to Your Excellency, That this His Majestys Province of New Jersey under Your Government and

other the British Colonys in North America (by the Divine Indulgence) are abundantly Stored with Iron Ore as also with Suitable Conveniences and proper materials for making the Same into Pigg mettal and Barr Iron; and could under due Encouragement largely Contribute towards, and probably in some years wholy supply Great Britain and Ireland with that necessary Commodity for which they become Annually greatly Indebted to Sweeden and other fforeign Nations.

That We are well informed that on repeated proofs made of American Iron before the Officers of His Majesty's Navy and other Skillfull persons, the Same has been declared to Equal if not Excell in quality the best Sweedish Iron.

That the Inhabitants of this and the other Northern Colony's have hitherto made but small Advantage therefrom having Imported but very inconsiderable quantities Either of Pigg mettal or Barr Iron into great Britain or Ireland by reason of the great discouragement they lye under from the high price of Labour in the said Colonies and the Duties by Act of Parliament on those Com'odities Imported from his Majesty's Plantations in America.

That should it please the British Legislature to take off the duties at present payable on Importation and to Allow such Bounty thereon as to them in their Great Wisdom might seem reasonable the Inhabitants of this and other His Majesty's Colonies in North America would be thereby the better enabled to discharge the Respective ballances due by them to their mother Country, And greatly to encrease the quantities of her Manufactures to them Exported (as their Returns would be in those only) whereby the Annual Debt by her incurred to Sweeden and other fforeign Nations for Iron would be considerably Lessen'd and the Navigation and Ship building throughout the Brittish Dominions greatly encouraged and enlarged,

Wherefore We the Council and House of Assembly humbly request your Excellency That you will be pleased to Lay the Substance of this our Representation before His Majesty The tender ffather of the people whose paternal Care extends Even to the remotest of his Subjects, And in our behalf Humbly to beseech him, that he will be graciously pleased to recommend our Circumstances as above set forth to the Consideration of his Parliamant, or take such steps for our relief and Encouragement as to him in his Royal Wisdom and goodness shall Seem fitting

Nov! 4th 1741

By Order of the House of Assembly

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November 4th 1741-By Order of the Council

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Memorial of Rodrigo Pacheco and Richard Partridge on behalf of the Proprietors of East Jersey, to the Lords of Trade-asking for the confirmation of a certain Act.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 4, F. 47.]

Memorial of Roderigo Pacheco, in behalf of the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, praying ye Board to Report upon

an Act passed in that Province in Novbr 1703, for Regulating the Purchasing of Land from the Indians.

To the Right Honble the Lords Com'issioners for Trade & Plantations-

The Memorial of Rodrigo Pacheco in behalf of the Proprietors of the Eastern division of ye Province of New Jersey.

May it Pleasure Yo". Lordshipps

An Act has been passed in ye said Province of New Jersey by the Gov! Council and Assembly there in ye second year of her late Majesty Queen Ann Entituled an Act for regulating the purchasing of Lands from ye Indians, which Act has been since to wit on ye 24. day of Novem! in the fifteenth year of his present Majestys Reign Exemplified by the Governour of the said Province under the Seal thereof as appears by the Exemplification hereunto annexed, & which Act has been found necessary & of good Service to his Majty Subjects in the said Province-In consideration

Whereof Your Memorialist most humbly prays Yo! Lordships would be pleased to report on the said Act to His Majesty in order for its receiving the Royal Approbation.

Which is Humbly Submitted

RODRIGO PACHECO

I do also humbly request that the aforementioned Act may be confirmed by the King—

RICH PARTRIDGE

Agent for ye Province of New Jersey

London June yo 16. 1742