New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . f survivor-ship, while early in March of the same year Will-iam Penn purchased all of Major John Fenwicksclaims to any right, title, and interest in West Jer-sey. A secretary and receiver-general of the prov-ince were selected, while Robert Barclay of theproprietors was commissioned governor for twelve proprietors immediately associatedwith themselves twelve others, creating twenty-four shares. Thomas Wilcox disposed of his en-tire interest. The new associates were James, Earl of Perth;John Drummond, of Lundy; Robe
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . f survivor-ship, while early in March of the same year Will-iam Penn purchased all of Major John Fenwicksclaims to any right, title, and interest in West Jer-sey. A secretary and receiver-general of the prov-ince were selected, while Robert Barclay of theproprietors was commissioned governor for twelve proprietors immediately associatedwith themselves twelve others, creating twenty-four shares. Thomas Wilcox disposed of his en-tire interest. The new associates were James, Earl of Perth;John Drummond, of Lundy; Robert Barclay, ofUrie; David Barclay, Jr., of Urie; Robert Gordon,of Cluny; Arent Sonmans, of Wallingford, all ofthe Kingdom of Scotland; Gawen Lawry, of Lon-don, merchant; Edward Byllynge, of Westmins-ter; James Braine, of London, merchant; WilliamGibson, of London, haberdasher; Thomas Barker,of London, merchant; and Robert Turner andThomas Warne, of Dublin, merchants. To thesetwenty-four proprietors the Duke of York, uponthe 14th of March, 1682-83, confirmed the sale. GREAT SEAL OF 1691. 160 NEW JERSEY AS A COL the province by a grant of the most explicit terms,while upon the 23d of November, 1683, KingCharles II formally recognized the proprietorsright to soil and government. The interest reawakened in the British Islesover the New Jersey project was highly stimulatedby the diverse interests of the men composing theboard. There were members of the Society ofFriends, Dissenters, and Papists, a strange com-mingling of religious professions and characters,a small but highly influential Scotch minorityexercising potential influence in the upbuildingof East Jersey, particularly in Monmouth County. Although Governor Barclay did not come toAmerica, he sent in his place Thomas Eudyard, alawyer of prominence, who, arriving in the prov-ince in November, 1682, assembled his council andin March, 1683, met his Assembly. Owing to dif-ferences with the proprietors as to the laying outof land
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