. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... xvi INTRODUCTORY. In 1680, under a second grant made by the Duke of York, West Jersey was conveyed toWilliam Penn, Edward Byllinge. Gawen Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge and EdwardWarner, the two last named having become possessed of the Fenwick interest. This grantcovered the free use of all bays, rivers and waters, for navigation, fishing, trade, etc. The administration of the Province of East Jersey was devolved upon Lady ElizabethCarteret by the death of her husband, and in the settlement, in 1681-2, Lady Carteret ande
. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... xvi INTRODUCTORY. In 1680, under a second grant made by the Duke of York, West Jersey was conveyed toWilliam Penn, Edward Byllinge. Gawen Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge and EdwardWarner, the two last named having become possessed of the Fenwick interest. This grantcovered the free use of all bays, rivers and waters, for navigation, fishing, trade, etc. The administration of the Province of East Jersey was devolved upon Lady ElizabethCarteret by the death of her husband, and in the settlement, in 1681-2, Lady Carteret andeight trustees acting with her, sold East Jersey for the sum of £3,400 to William Penn andeleven other grantees named in the deed, a majority of whom were Quaker yeomen, andall Englishmen: William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, ThomasHart, Richard Mew, Thomas Wilcox, Ambrose Rigg, John Heywood, Hugh Hartshorn,Clement Plumstead and Thomas Cooper. In 1682 Penn purchased all the right to the titleof John Fenwick in West Jersey, and the twelve pro
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