Papers, 1686-1838.

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Papers, 1686-1838.

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Correspondence, legal documents, and printed matter, relating to boundary disputes with New York, Elizabeth and Newark land riots, Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery, and both East and West Jersey Proprietors. Persons represented include James Alexander, Jonathan Belcher, Robert Hunter Morris, and John Pownall.

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Council of Proprietors of the Western Division of New Jersey

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Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764

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Epithet: Governor of New Jersey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x0003b1 Jurist and governor of Pennsylvania. From the description of Diary of Robert Hunter Morris, 1735-1749. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070618 From the description of Papers of Robert Hunter Morris, 1756-1758. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452304 ...

Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757

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Jonathan Belcher was born on January 8, in 1681 or 1682, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew and Sarah Belcher. In 1746, upon hearing about Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris's poor health, Belcher actively pursued the opportunity for another royal appointment. Although the Morris Family nominated the former governor's son, Robert Hunter Morris, the alliance of Quakers in New Jersey and London cultivated by Belcher and his brother-in-law, Richard Partridge, managed to obtain the appo...

Paris, Ferdinand John

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British solicitor and agent for Board of General Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. From the description of Papers, 1686-1838. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70954946 Ferdinand John Paris was an influential London lawyer who was appointed by the East Jersey Proprietors to be their agent with the British government. The East Jersey Proprietors needed someone to represent their cause, the delineation of the borders between East and...

Alexander, James, 1691-1756

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James Alexander was a lawyer in New Jersey and New York during the eighteenth century. Born in Scotland in 1691, Alexander fought in the Rebellion of 1715, which resulted in the exile of the Stuarts from England. That year, he moved to the United States and became the surveyor general of the Province of New Jersey. He served on both the Council of New York, from 1721 to 1732, and the Council of New Jersey, from 1723 to 1735. From 1723 to 1727, he also served as New Jersey's attorney general. Ale...

Pownall, John, 1720-1795

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Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey

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