. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . hority according to popu-lar will. Byllynge dying in 1687, his interests be-came vested by his heirs in Dr. Daniel Coxe,court physician and a large proprietor. Assumingthe title to land and power to govern in West Jer-sey, Dr. Coxe, upon March 4, 1691, transferred tothe West Jersey Society—a land purchasing cor-poration—all his rights to his American included a vast acreage in East Jersey, WestJersey, two hundred thousand acres in Minnisink,Merrimack lands in New Hampshire, and tenthousand acres in Pennsylvania
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . hority according to popu-lar will. Byllynge dying in 1687, his interests be-came vested by his heirs in Dr. Daniel Coxe,court physician and a large proprietor. Assumingthe title to land and power to govern in West Jer-sey, Dr. Coxe, upon March 4, 1691, transferred tothe West Jersey Society—a land purchasing cor-poration—all his rights to his American included a vast acreage in East Jersey, WestJersey, two hundred thousand acres in Minnisink,Merrimack lands in New Hampshire, and tenthousand acres in Pennsylvania, the deed alsomentioning a pottery house in Burlington,town lots in Perth Amboy, Gloucester, and EggHarbor, and lands in Cape May and Maurice Riv-er. He also conveyed to the West Jersey Societythe right of government, which effectually settled,in name at least, the long contest concerning thematter. In 1692 the society made an agreement tofurther the interests of its project in colonizationand fostering trade, although little was done, and 168 NEW JERSEY AS A GOL. the subsequent surrender of the provinces to thecrown put a quietus upon all future efforts. In1688 the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey,similar to the board in East Jersey, was finallyorganized. Owing to uncertain descriptions, faulty survey-ing, and conflicting claims the disputed boundarylines between East Jersey and New York and l!astJersey and West Jersey received official 1686 a council was held to determine the EastJersey-New York line, but no settlement wasreached beyond locating the terminal points onthe Hudson and Delaware. The question was notsettled for a century. The East and West Jerseygovernments agreed in 1686 to submit their lineto arbitration, after a failure of George Keith,surveyor of East Jersey, to locate the line accord-ing to the quintipartite deed of 1676. Keith ranthe line from Egg Harbor to the Raritan, when theloud protests of West Jersey, claiming that EastJersey rec
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