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 November 4th 1741-By Order of the Council Join Reading & 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 y second year of her late Majesty Queen Ann Entituled an Act for regulating the purchasing of Lands from y Indians, which Act has been since to wit on yo 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 Address of the Eastern Council of Proprietors to Governor Lewis Morris-relative to the Partition Line between New York and New Jersey. [From Papers of F. J. Paris in the New Jersey Historical Society Library, Volume II, page 127.] TO HIS EXCELLENCY LEWIS MORRIS Esq' Captain General & Governor in Chief of His Majesties province of New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America & Vice Admiral in the Same, &c. May it please your Exellency The Council of proprietors of the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey humbly Beg leave to represent to your Excellency, That, about the month of September last, the Committees of the Councils of proprietors of the Eastern and western Divisions of New Jersey, waited upon your Excellency with an address, relating to the partition Line between New Jersey and New York: to which address your Excellency was pleased to give a favourable answer; promising to use your utmost endeavours to effect the Same: And as there was, at that time, a Governor daily expected at New York, it was then thought proper to let the affair rest til 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; Oblidge us, Sir, to remind you of our former petition, There being Leases of Ejectment lately Served by John Bayard on the Demise of Henry Wileman, Claimers under a New York title, in the inferior Court of Orange County in the province of New York, upon persons about Seven miles (as we apprehend the Line Runs) within your Excellencies Government; and great Commotions and disturbances Seem to threaten these proceedings if not timely prevented, We therefore pray your Excellency to write to the present Lieutenant Governor of New York to Join with your Excellency in endeavouring to bring the Settlement of the aforesaid Line to a Speedy Conclusion; and we hope, Sir, you will take Such further Measures for this end, as you Shall think proper and Convenient, We are Your Excellency's most obedient and most Perth Amboy by order of the Council of Proprietors, John Hamillys Affidavit of James Alexander-relative to the position of the North Partition Point between New Jersey and New York. [From Papers of F. J. Paris in Historical Society Library, Vol. A, p. 86.] Bayard on demise of Wileman ats Turn out Ejectment for lands said to be in Orange County. Removed by habeas Corpus JAMES ALEXANDER who for about twenty seven years last Past hath been and Still is Surveyor General of the lands of the Eastern and Western Divisions of the Province of New Jersey maketh Oath that the Commissioners and Allan Jarratt Surveyor appointed for the Province of New York and Commissioners and him the said Alexander Surveyor appointed for the Province of New Jersey in pursuance of Acts of Assemblys of the said Respective Provinces for running and ascertaining the Division line between the said Provinces did for that purpose in the month of June One thousand seven hundred and nineteen meet at Mackackemak at the House of one Swartwoot and there agreed on means for ascertaining that branch of Delaware River upon which the North point of the said Petition line should be and the said Surveyors took an observation for making an Estimate how far Mr Swartwoots was from the Latitude of forty one Degs and forty minutes in which Latitude the said partition point should be and by that observation the said Surveyors esteemed they were about Sixteen minutes South from the said Latitude that by the means agreed on that Branch of Delaware River called the Fish Kill was ascertained to be the branch upon which the north partition point should be and an actual Survey was in the said month of June and July following made from Swartwoots to the said Partition Point which was agreed on after many Meridional observations of the sun taken by the said Jarratt & Alexander near the said Partition Point both to the Northward and Southward thereof that on or about the twenty fifth day of the said Month of July the Commissionrs andSurveyors aforesaid of both the said Provinces executed Indentures under their hands and seals for Commemorating and ascertaining the place of the said north partition point so settled and agreed on that after protraction of the Survey aforesaid from Swartwoots to the said. North Partition Point they the said Surveyors from that and the best Information they then had did esteem that the Partition line would nearly run South |