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10.002
Title: A bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, at the suit of John Earl of Stair, and others, proprietors of the Eastern-Division of New-Jersey; against Benjamin Bond, and some other persons of Elizabeth-Town, distinguished by the name of the Clinker Lot Right Men : with three large maps, done from copper-plates : to which is added; the publications of the Council of Proprietors of East New-Jersey, and Mr. Nevill's speeches to the General Assembly, concerning the riots committed in New-Jersey, and the pretences of the rioters, and their seducers : these papers will give a better light into the history and constitution of New-Jersey, than any thing hitherto published, the matters whereof have been chiefly collected from records.
Creator(s): Turner, James, -1759
Publication: 1747.
Subjects: Land tenure -- New Jersey. | Public lands -- New Jersey. | Elizabeth, New Jersey -- History. | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.


128.001
Title: The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; with an introduction, respecting, the life of the late W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers; --with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general state, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c : with an appendix : written principally between the years 1776 and 1780.
Creator(s): Proud, Robert, 1728-1813
Publication: 1797[-1798]
Subjects: Penn, William, 1644-1718. | Society of Friends. | Society of Friends -- Early works to 1800. | New Sweden -- History. | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.


196.002
Title: An answer to a bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, at the suit of John Earl of Stair, and others, commonly called Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New-Jersey, against Benjamin Bond, and others claiming under the original proprietors and associates of Elizabeth-Town to which is added; nothing either of the publications of the Council of Proprietors of East New-Jersey, or of the pretences of the rioters, and their seducers; except so far as the persons meant by rioters, pretend title against the parties to the above answer; but a great deal of the controversy, though much less of the history and constitution of New-Jersey, than the said bill.
Creator(s): Smith, William, 1728-1793.
Publication: 1752.
Subjects: New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Elizabeth (N.J.) -- History. | Public lands -- New Jersey. | Land tenure -- New Jersey.