New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . .KAL OF KAST .IK. to Governor Barclay, it is recited that For theJust encouragement of those who travell dilli-gently for the good of the Publique and for thefixing of due Authoritie in them, That all com-missions Instruments, Orders and Instructionswhatsoever, and every of them, that shall here-after have the Seale of the Province affixed there-unto, and the Hands of five whole Proprietors.^|An impression of this seal in 1694, on an instru-ment signed by Andrew Hamilton, governor, is inthe possession of William Nelson, of


New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . .KAL OF KAST .IK. to Governor Barclay, it is recited that For theJust encouragement of those who travell dilli-gently for the good of the Publique and for thefixing of due Authoritie in them, That all com-missions Instruments, Orders and Instructionswhatsoever, and every of them, that shall here-after have the Seale of the Province affixed there-unto, and the Hands of five whole Proprietors.^|An impression of this seal in 1694, on an instru-ment signed by Andrew Hamilton, governor, is inthe possession of William Nelson, of seal was probably destroyed upon the sur-render of government in 1702. Of the province of West Jersey a seal appears ina quit-rent authority by both East and West pro-prietors to Rip Van Dam, under the date of De-cember 14, 1697. The attempt of the Duke of York to foist hisrepresentative Andros upon the Jerseys, whileabortive, led to the establishment of a new early as September 18, 1685, GovernorThomas Dongan, of New York, wrote that A New Seal of this Province


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