same Conveyance which brings this; Besides what they have proposed I do hereby faithfully assure yo" I will make yo" a Considerable annual allowance to be paid you in money dureing my life if you soe long Continue your residence in our Province. That ye onely wise God would Councell you in ye disposall of yourself prosper & succeed all your Generous Pious. designes & undertakeings is & shall be the Constant fervent prayer of him who is

Dear S

You' most affectionate friend & faithful servant

August 5th 1692.

DAN: COXE.

Letter from the Proprietors of West Jersey in England,

to Jeremiah Basse.

[From West Jersey Records in Secretary of State's office, Trenton, Liber B 2, page

423.]

Letter to Jeremiah Basse from ye Societie signed on their behalf by Robert Hackshawe.1

M JEREMIAH BASSE

LONDON ye 24th December 1692.

Swee are not a litle Concerned that wee have not a Line from yo" though ye Bill by you drawn for 30: sterling In Ex for 40 New York money is come to hand & yo' money ordered to be paid wee are willing to put ye best Construction upon our want of yo advise hoping that you have written us by ye Katharine Cap Goff who was taken & carryed by ye ffrench

See page 91 for his Commission, given in June, 1692, on the receipt of which he appears to have departed for New Jersey.-ED.

to St Mallows, for ye future when a ship come away take care to write us by both wee have already written you diverse Ler by this Boarde to which we refere yo" And now have further to acquaint yo" that wee have lately agreed with Docto' Coxe to purchase ye remaining one third of the Lands which hee sold us two thirds of our first purchase wee also bought of him ye 4000 Acres at Cohanzy or Salem Tenth Side which hee saith hee ordered yo" to take up for him wee have further agreed with him that if you should have taken up any other lands for him they should be ours Therefore Charge our Acco! with yo' disbursmts for what you may have soe taken up and Lett them be reckoned as part of the Eight Proprieties untaken up which we have bought of him and doe the like with respect to ye Charges for ye 4000 Acres at Cohanzy on Salem Tenth Side wee cannot now send yo" Copy of ye writings because they are not yet executed but they shall be sent as soone as wee can, We have ordered Mr Westland to agree with a ffrench Cooper now at Plimouth who is recommended to us as a man well skill'd not only in makeing of Cask which is the thing wee principally aime at but also in makeing of rome & brandy pray try his skill in all these pticulars and let him not be Idle but be provideing of good store of Oyle Casks against next ffishing Season And when ye Season of ye yeare is fitt for it lett him exercise his Talent a litle in makeing some wine and send us a Cast of each sort the rome in a small Caske & the Brandy in Bottles because that cannot come in Caske. We have lately received a Survey of our Land taken up at Cape May Copy whereof wee suppose you will have in y Country If any good Chapnen present for any part of our Land don't refuse them only with this Provisoe that you sell none of ye Land that Lies Convenient for ye whale fishing till you heare further from us wee meane the Land upon Cape May lying

next ye Bay or upon ye Sea Coast for that wee will not sell. But any of the rest you may sell wee suppose wee need not reminde you of giving us Ample advise of all things as well Concerning ye whale fishing ffurr trade mines & mineralls our Land in Pennsilvania which if a good Chapman offers wee would willingly part with As also the two Proprieties above the ffalls surveyed & purchased by the Doctor of the Indians a further purchase wee have also made of the Doctor which hee bought of Thomas Budd Containing 15 Thousand Acres of Land that was allotted said Budd by the Country for satisfaction of a Debt of 1250 which they owed said Budd and for which Doctor Coxe paid the said Budd. is said to be the best Land in the Province. pray give us your thoughts of it And if you can have Chapmen that will buy it for twelve. pounds p hundred Acres which price ye Doctor assures us it will yield you may sell what you can of it only reserving to us some part of it near the River where the best oaks grow for the Doctor tell us there are upon it the best oaks in ye whole Country. D Coxe hath Informed us that Land is sold for 10 p hundred Acres but rather than fayle you may sell that above the ffalls & in Pennsilvania for 5 p hundred Acres Jersey money or any other except that of Tho: Budds & Cape May. You must also take care you doe not sell any so as to prejudise the rest which will be if you lett them take up all of the best & none of the worst Land with it But your prudence will in that Case we suppose direct you better than we Can. Not also till we heare from you but that wee are

Yo' Lo: ffriends

ROB: HACKSHAW by order of ye Committee. The originall is signed by S Tho: Lane: Edw. Harrison, Rob Hackshaw, Rob! Michell W Whitman, Charles Michell, Mordecay Abbott, James Boddington.

Solicitor General's Report on the Charter of Connecticut, and on the Grant of New Jersey.

[From New York Col. Docts, Vol. IV., p. 1.]

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships orders of the 8th Instant here unto annexed I have considered of the Charter granted to the Gov! and Company of Connecticutt, and I have also considered of the Grants made to the Proprietors of East and West New Jersey in America and I am humbly of Opinion that notwithstanding any thing in the said Charter or Grants, that there Majesties by virtue of their Prerogative and Soverainty over those Colonies, which is not granted from the Crown to the Gov! and Company, nor to the proprietors by any of the Charts may appoint Governors for these places with such Powers, and authorities for the Government thereof, and for raising men and furnishing Provisions for the necessary defence of his Subjects and the neighboring Colonies against their Enemies as their Majesties shall in their great wisdom judge reasonable.

And I conceive that the Proprietor of New York may assign his Propriety in New Jersey which is part of New York to others but cannot by any such Grant or Assignment absolutely sever New Jersey from New York but that still it remains a part thereof and dependent on the Gov'm' of N: York and lyable to contribute men and provisions for the suppt and protect" of N: York against any Enemys.

13, Feb: 169

THO: TREVOR.

From William Dockwra, Secretary and Register of the Proprietors of East Jersey, to Governor Hamilton.

[From the Original among the Manuscripts of the N. J. Hist. Society.] GOVERNOR HAMILTON

S Wee kindely salute you, haueing this day read yo' letter p' Capt Phillips weh came via Barbados date at Perth Amboy the 30h Septemb: last with another therein enclosed of the same date signed by Mr Ric Hartshorn by order of the house of Deputies as their Speaker, and by Mr Gordon by order of the Councill as Deputy Secretary. Wee are well satisfied with the care and conduct you have showed in the asserting our right to ye Governm & yo own authority by our Commission an order to ye good & quiet settlem of the Province.

And we doubt not but a little time will make it manifest, that all those who haue perform'd their dutyes in a ready complyance wth you, haue therein consulted and adheerd to their true interest & the publique good of the whole Province, and those few who haue opposed you will quickly repent & correct their Errors. Our future Actions shall declare that we doe not more designe our own Interest than the reall prosperity of that province ouer wch you preside.

Wee shall gladly receive the best information, how we may be enabled to increase y number of people to etle in the Province & to advance the trade thereof, particularly we desire to know whether a Whale fishery may not be established to good advantage at Egge harbour or Barnagatt and the best measures to be taken for it, wee being well assured that there is a very great resort of that ffish especially (as well as others) vpon of coasts the Oyle & bone being very staple com'odities here,

Pray give our kinde respects to Mr Hartshorne