not put him ashoar and was forced to bring him to England.

If a Ship bound outward from Perth Amboy with the product of that Collony shall be obliged to clear at New York She may be blown off in going round, and so is seizable in any of the Kings Ports for want of Coquets.

A Northerly Wind is a fair wind to goe to Sea from Perth Amboy but blows quite down Hudsons River, that Shipps with that wind cannot come at New York & so lose a fair wind:

In the wintertime Shipps can goe to Sea from PerthAmboy, once in two or three Tides, but it is impossible to goe to New York, because of the running Ice in that River, and therefore must lose their Season till the Winter is over.

East Jersey affords great store of Horses fitt to be Transported to the West Indies, They are never put aboard till the Wind offers fair to goe to Sea; And should Vessels loaded with Horses be obliged to Clear at New York, they may lose the Wind that might carry them to Sea, and be the loss of their Voyage, besides many inconveniences too tedious to trouble Your Lordshipps with.

The Proprietors hoping Yo' Lord's are satisfied they intended no disrespect to your Lord's by that Allegation in their Petition, They humbly represent to yo! Lord'ps that the Chief design of their present Petition, is to take away the principall Objection made by Yo' Lord's against a Free Port in East-Jersey, viz the Detriment it will bring to New York, and therefore the Proprietors made the proposall, and will still undertake to perform it, of obtaining an Act of Assembly for the same duties at Perth Amboy, as are and shall be paid at New York.

And though they have further pray'd that a Tryall at Bar may be granted for a final decision of their

Right, The Proprietors doe only thereby intend, that if their proposall of obtaining the like Customes be not accepted, to be vindicated against the clamours of the Inhabittants upon that Occasion, who unless the Case receive a Judiciall Determination have and will Impute the want of a Free Port wholly to the Proprietors remissness of Asserting their Right in a due course of Law.

The Proprietors therefore humbly pray Yo! Lord's Consideration of the Premises, and that Yo! Lordships will admitt them to a hearing, before Yo' Lord's make any Report upon their last Petition

Memorial of the Proprietors of East Jersey to the Lords of Trade, asking for a speedy report upon their petitions.

[From P. R. O. B. T., Proprietors, Vol. 3, C 4.]

Mem! of the Proprietors of East New Jersey about a Port at Perth Amboy.

THE PROPRIETORS having (at the last time they attended Yo! Lords) suggested, that the allowing a Port in East Jersey upon the conditions then propos'd would be no Detriment But rather an Advantage to New York, doe now in Obedience to Yo! LordPPS Commands humbly offer the following reasons for it.

1st The people of both Provinces being under Equall Taxes of Importation & Exportation, the Merchants or Inhabittants of New-York will not be tempted to remove from New-Yorke (wch is a place well setled & abounding with all Conveniency's for Trade) to East Jersey, which has yet few Buildings & not capable of Receiving them till they have spent a great deal of time & money to make the necessary provisions for Trade.

2 Most if not all the Improveable Lands of New Yorke are already taken up & setled, whereby that Province is now as well peopled as it is like to be for many Years; And will therefore return under the same Difficulty's both for Men & Money in time of any future Warr, as they were in the last Warr, and England will still be under a necessity of Supplying them with Men & Money on such Occasions.

3 But if East Jersey have a Port, that Country (wch has a great deal of Fertile Land lying vacant) will soon be peopled from the remoter Barren Collony's, And capable of Furnishing Men and Money in case of any Invasion from the French or Indians. The only Reason which has yet Cramp't that Country from Increasing in people, being the incapacity of Importing thither what they want, & Exporting from thence the product of their Labours:

4 The Moyety of the Customes arising at East Jersey being paid and applyed to the Support of the Frontieers of New Yorke, that Province will be eased of such part of their present charge, or at least England will be discharg'd from that Expence of Men and Money, which it is now forced to be at for that purpose.

5 Whereas it has been Objected that East Jersey was once a part of New York & Contributed to that Revenue in proportion to the Customes that arise upon Goods consumed by the Inhabittants of that Province; If they shall be now permitted to supply themselves

by their own Importation then the Customes of New Yorke will proportionally Decrease.

IN ANSWER to which, The Proprietors offer to put themselves under the same Customes with New York, And will pay in, to the Treasury of New-York, Yearly for the support of the Frontieers as much as the Custome of Goods consum'd in East Jersey has amounted to in any Year since the disjoyning of that province from New-York, if their Lordshipps shall be inclinable to accept of that Offer rather than a Moyety of the Customes arising at East Jersey.

THE PROPRIETORS are much surpriz'd at the Objection Yo! Lord's make to their Right of Goverment, which they enjoy'd dureing yo Reign of the late King Charles 2a not only by an uninterrupted allowance of it, But by a Particular Declaration recognizing their Authority and Commanding the Inhabittants to obey them, And by the late King James, and since by his present Majesty.

THEIR TYTLE TO IT, IS THIS.

King Charles the Second by Letters Pattent granted the powers of Goverment of East Jersey to the Duke of Yorke.

THE DUKE OF YORKе in 1682 granted all the same powers of Goverment to the Proprietors as appears by the Grant now produced to Yo! Lordshipps, which King Charles 2 back'd with the Declaration above mentioned.

THE PROPRIETORS enjoyed it accordingly, and though in the Commission Granted to Coll. Fletcher late Governor of New York the Jerseys were at first incerted, Yet upon the Petition of D Cox then chief proprietor of West-Jersey and a hearing at the Councill Boord, after a long Debate by Councell, wherein the Absigneableness of Goverment was particularly

discuss'd It was Ordered that the Jerseys should be struck out of Coll. Fletchers Commission, and they were struck out accordingly.

The proprietors humbly pray Your LordPPS Consideration of the premises and that Yo! Lord's will be pleased to make a speedy Report upon their Petitions referred to Your Lordshipps.

By Order of ye Proprietors

Aprill iij 1699.

W DOCKWRA

S & RR

From Secretary Popple to Wm. Dockwra, informing him that the Lords of Trade had concluded to authorize a trial at Westminster, to test the Propritors' claim to the Port of Perth Amboy, and to their Government of the Province.

Sir,

[From S. P. O. B. T. Proprieties, Vol. 25, p 399.j To ME DOCKWRA

The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations having taken into consideration the Petition of the Proprietors of East-New-Jersey in America (refer'd unto them by his Majesty's Order in Council of the 9th of March last) relating to a Port at Perth Amboy, in which they pray that for their Vindication against the Clamours of the Inhabitants of East-New-Jersey on that occasion His Majesty's Attorney General be directed to consent to a Tryal at Bar in Westminster Hall on a feign'd Issue, whereby their Claim may receive a Judicial Determination, And their Lordships having likewise considered the further Memorials that have been laid before the said Proprietors, or by your