ber 1736 and lays the damages att £3000. which Suit is not Yet come to A tryall.

As I Acted whilst I was president all Along in Obedience to Your Lordships directions to me so now I humbly hope for Your protection and Assistance in what method Your Lordships thinks proper but a Letter from Your Lordships signifying that att the time Coll? Morris demanded the Goverment in Oct 1736 he was not then of the Council (wch by M' Popples letter to me certainly he was not) And of Course could have no pretension att all to the Goverment, Such a Letter My Lords would be of great Service to me upon this tryall And of You would be pleased to favour me So farr I hope to receive it time Enough befor the tryall comes On.

I presume to Send Your Lordships the Case Stated betwixt Coll. Morris and My Self relating Coll. Morris's claim to the Goverment befor he received his Letters patent to be Governor of this province which I hope will lett Your Lordships fully into the matter And shall take no more of Your Lordships time up but to Assure You that I am with the most dutyfull regard

My Lords Your Lordships Most humble & most Obedient Servant JOHN HAMILTON

Amboy June 9th 1743

The Right Honble the Lords Commissioners for trade

& plantations.

Letter from Samuel Gellibrand, Deputy Secretary of the Lords of Trade, to John Hamilton--in answer to the foregoing letter.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, No. 15, Ent. Book D, p. 32.]

To John Hamilton Esq Eldest Councillor in the Province of New Jersey.

Sir,

In the Absence of Mr Hill, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, to acquaint you, that their Lordships have received your Letter dated at Amboy the 9th of June 1743, by which you inform them, that M' Morris had commenced a Suit against you for the Salary you had received, as President and Commander in chief of the Jerseys, from the 20th of October 1736, to the 23 of June 1738, Whereupon you have desired their Lordships Assistance, and they have ordered me to acquaint you, That from the Death of Mr Anderson on 28th March 1736, they have looked upon you to be the legal President & Commander in chief of the Province of East & West Jersey, and in consequence thereof, always directed Letters and Orders to you in that Quality, till M' Morris took Possession of the Government, by Virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Whitehall August 239 1743

I am Sir,

Your most humble Servant

SAM GELLIBRAND. D. S.

Instructions from John Hamilton and Andrew Johnston to John Lawrence for running the Partition Line between East and West Jersey.

[From Original among Papers of F. J. Paris in the New Jersey Historical Society Library, Package 6, No. 18.]

Instructions to Mr John Lawrence Concerning the Runing the Partition Line between East and West Jersey.

1st With this you'll Receive a Commission to you for Runing the Partition Line between East & West Jersey to the Execution of which you'll be sworn as in the Draught of the Oath on the Back thereof.

2o You are to Employ Martin Ryerson or Gersham Mott or some other as an Assistant Surveyor if you think proper & also proper Chainbearers & Markers all which are to be sworn or Affirm'd truely to Perform the Office you Employ them in, and to have a Certificate of those Oaths or Affirmations indors'd on the back of your Commission and Sign'd by the Magis trate who Administers the Oaths or Affirmations to them, before you Proceed to the Work,-only in Case when you are on the Work by reason of Sickness or otherways you find Occasion to Employ more or other Persons than at first you intended, you may Proceed with them untill you Come near the Habitation of a Magistrate & then Cause them to be Sworn or Affirm'd before him that they have hitherto well and truely Executed and that they will well & truely Execute the Office you have Employ'd them in to the best of their Knowledge, and you are to Direct the Chainbearers in Chaining to hold the Stick they are next to Put in the Ground in the same hand with the Chain & within 3 or 4 Inches of the End that they are to Push in the

Ground & to Stretch the Chain at Setting it in the Ground and to Direct the Marker to Mark the Trees as hereafter shall be mentioned

3dly You are to Proceed to Little Egg Harbour on the Sea Coast with the hands by you Employ'd & there Ascertain the most Southerly Point of a Certain Beach or Island of Sand Lying next & adjoining to the Main Sea on the North Side of the Mouth or Entrance of a certain Inlet Bay or Harbour Call'd Little Egg Harbour, to the Ascertaining whereof the finding the markt Trees of the Line run by George Keith in the Year 1687, (a Coppy of whose Survey from Lib: 0. Page. 1. you have herewith) from that same Point may be Assisting to you, for in that Line that Point then was, & Storms may since that have altered it by Adding to it or washing from it, but the Place where it formerly was we Conceive is what's to be adhered to -if the Point Remain now in the Line of George Keith & consequently is in the same Place now where it then Then

was

4thly You are to Chain Eastward upon the Main Land untill the Point come to have the same bearing as the Course which by your best Judgm! you Conceive you ought to Run for the Random Line and when it bears that Course, you are to Compute by numbers the Distance to the Point, which by the bearing at George Keiths Line & the bearing at this Place with the Distance Chain'd, you'll be Enabled to Do & mark that Distance upon the nearest Lively Tree, & in your Journal there also remarking the Course & Distance of the Tree from your Line, and then Proceed on your Line till you Come to the next Compleat Mile & there mark the Number of Miles from the Point & Enter in your Journal the Course & Distance of the Tree you mark it on from the End of the Mile in the Line, and so Proceed on your Line marking a Tree at the End of Each Mile with the Number of Miles that its distant from the Point.

5thly But should the now Point be different from what it was at the time that George Keith run Then that Variation must arise 1st by Sand or Earth being added to the Point by Storms, or 2dly by Washing away the Sand or Earth, If the first has happen'd then the now Point is South Westwards of the Point that was in being in 1687, & Consequently George Keiths Line Continued will Cutt the Island & as you can probably have nothing to Direct you to know whither most was added on the Side towards the Sea or Side towards the Land, therefore the midle of the Island upon George Keiths Line seems to Us most rational to be Chosen as the Place of the Point in the year. 1687. & there a Signal is to be sett up, or in that Place one of your People is to stand still till you have Measur'd to your Random Line & Observ'd the Signal or that Person to be in your Random Line, by which you'l have the Distance to the Signal as before, & then mark & Proceed in your Line as before

6thly But should Storms have Wash'd away the Point from the Place it was in. 1687. then it stands to Reason that the Place of the former Point will be on the Water in the Mouth of the Inlet and in such Part thereof as will be Intersected by George Keiths Line Continued & in a Line drawn from the Northermost to the Southermost Points of the Inlett to which Place a Canoe or Periagoe should be sent & when gott into the true Place which as to George Keiths Line may be either done by Signals from you on the Shore to Go to the Right or Left or more speedily by takeing a Compass aboard & going between the two Points of the Inlett & moveing backwards & forwards till they in the Canoe find you on the Shore to be in the Course of Keiths Line, and then they are to fix the Canoe the best they Can in that Place by Grapling or Ropes tyed about Stones untill you have Measur'd to your Random Line & there taken your Observation to find & Com