THE CONCESSIONS AND AGREEMENTS
OF THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST JERSEY
Part VI: And that the Lands may be more regularlie laid out..
i. The Governor and Councell (and Assembly if any be) are to
take care and direct that all Lands be devided by
Generall Lotts, none lesse than 2100 acres, nor more than
21000 Acres in each Lott, Excepting Citties Townes &c:
and the near lotts of Townshipps, And that the same be
devided into seaven parts one seaventh part by Lott to us
our heires and assignes, the remainder to persons as they
come to plant the same in such proporc'ons as is allowed.
ii. ITEM that the Governor, or whom he shall depute in case
of Death, or absence, if some one be not before
Com'issionated by us as aforesaid doe give to every
person to whom Land is due, a Warrant Signed and sealed
by himselfe, and the Major part of his Councell, and
directed to the Surveyor Generall or his Deputie
com'anding him to lay our Limitt and bound acres
of land (as his due proporc'on is) for such a person in
such Allottment, according to which Warrant the Register
having first Recorded the same, and attested the record
upon the Warrant, the Surveyor Generall or his Deputy
shall proceed and certifie to the cheife Secretary or
Register the name of the person for whom he hath laid out
land by Virtue of what Authority, the date of the
Authoritie or Warrant, the number of acres, the bounds,
and on what point of the Compasse the severall limitts
thereof lye, which Certificate the Register is likewise
to enter in a booke to be prepared for that purpose with
an Alphabeticall table referring to the booke, that soe
the Certificate may bee the easier found, and then to
file the Certificates and the same to keep safelye, The
Certificate being entred a Warrant comprehending all the
perticulers of the Land menc'oned in the Certificate
aforesaid is to be signed and sealed by him and his
Councell or the major part of them as aforesaid (they
haveing seen the entry) and directed to the Register or
cheife Secretary for his preparing a Graunt of the Land
to the partie for whom it is laid out, which graunt shall
bee in the forme following viz.
THE LORDS PROPRIATORS of the Province of New
Cesaria or New Jersey doe hereby Graunt unto
A B of the ......... in the Province aforesaid A
plantation conteyning ........ acres English measure
bounding (as in the Certificates) TO HOLD to him (or
her) his (or her) heires and assignes for ever,
Yeilding and paying yearly to the said Lord
Propriators their heires or assignes every 25th day
of March according to the English account, One halfe
penny [or One penny] of lawfull money of England for
every of the said acres. To be holden of the Manor
of in free and comon Soccage; the first
payment of which Rent to begin the 25th day of March
which shall be in the year of our Lord according to
the English account 1670. Given under the seale of
the said Province the day of in the
yeare of our Lord 16
iii. To which Instrument the Governor or his deputy hath
hereby full power to put the Seale of the said Province
and to subscribe his name as alsoe the Councell or the
major part of them are to subscribe their names, And
then the Instrument or Grant is to be by the Register
recorded in a booke of Records for that purpose, All
which being done according to those instrucc'ons Wee
hereby declare that the same shall be effectuall in Law
for the enjoyment of the said Plantation and all the
benefitts and profitts of and in the same (except the
halfe part of mines of Gold and Silver) paying the Rent
as aforesaid, PROVIDED that if any Plantacon soe
graunted shall by the space of Three yeares be neglected
to be planted with a sufficient number of Servants as is
before menc'oned That then it shall be lawfull for us
otherwise to dispose thereof in whole or in part, this
Grant notwithstanding.
iiii. ITEM wee doe alsoe graunt convenient proporc'ons of
Land for highwaies and for Streets not exceeding 100
foote in bredth in Citties Town's and Villages &c. for
Churches fforts Wharfes Keyes Harbours and for publique
houses, And to each Parish for the use of their
Minister 200 acres in such places as the Generall
Assembly shall appoint.
v. ITEM the Governor is to take notice that all such Lands
laid out for the uses and purposes aforesaid in the next
preceding Article shall be free and exempt from all
Rents Taxes and other charges and duties whatsoever
payable to us our heires or assignes.
vi. ITEM that in layeing out Lands for Citties Townes
Villages Burroughs or other Hamletts, the said lands be
devided into seaven parts, one seaventh part whereof to
be by Lott laid out for us and the rest devided to such
as shalbe willing to build thereon, they paying after
the rate of one halfe penny or one penny p'acre
according to the value of the Lands yearely to us as for
their other Land as aforesaid Which said Lands in
Citties Townes &c. is to be assured to each possessor by
the same way and instrument as is before menc'oned.
vii. ITEM that the inhabitants of the said Province have free
passage through or by any Seas bounds creeks rivers
rivuletts &c. in the said Province through or by which
they must necessarilie passe to [or?] come from the
maine Ocean to any part of the Province aforesaid.
viii.Lastlie it shall be lawfull for the Representatives of
the ffreeholders to make any Addresse to the Lords
touching the Governor and Councell or any of them for or
concerning any Greivances whatsoever or for any other
thing they shall desire, without the consent of the
Governor and Councell or any of them. [GIVEN Under our
Seal of our said Province the Tenth day of February in
the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and
Four.
John Berkley
G. Carteret.]
(The copy from which the foregoing was printed was without
the closing paragraph and signatures, which are taken from
the printed copy in the "Grants and Concessions," as
published by Leaming & Spicer, which differs in orthography
and other minor particulars. Ed.)
From a contemporaneous parchment copy brought to West Jersey
by John Fenwick. The original copy was destroyed by fire in
April, 1686.