. Reminiscences of old Gloucester, or, Incidents in the history of the counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and Camden, New Jersey . 4 THl ALBIOtf KXIQHT8 Of TUB OONrBMlOIf. was made to Lenox and Gorf^^es of theland between the fortieth and forty-eighth degrees of latitude. *From thisgrant by patent under the great seal fromking James of blessed memory saysHubbard^*^ all other charts and grantsof land from Pemmaquin to DelawareBay along the sea coast derive theirpedigree. But this is not strictly true;for the fortieth degree of north latitude,which bounded this grant on the south,crosses the Delaw
. Reminiscences of old Gloucester, or, Incidents in the history of the counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and Camden, New Jersey . 4 THl ALBIOtf KXIQHT8 Of TUB OONrBMlOIf. was made to Lenox and Gorf^^es of theland between the fortieth and forty-eighth degrees of latitude. *From thisgrant by patent under the great seal fromking James of blessed memory saysHubbard^*^ all other charts and grantsof land from Pemmaquin to DelawareBay along the sea coast derive theirpedigree. But this is not strictly true;for the fortieth degree of north latitude,which bounded this grant on the south,crosses the Delaware three miles abovePhiladelphia; so that for some years after1620, a part of the land afterwards form-ing old Gloucester lay in New England,and a part, together with all south Jersey,without it. The last portion had, by therestriction in the Virginia charter just re-ferred to, reverted in 1609 to the crownof England; where it remained ui%iffectedby the grant of Maryland in 1623 to Cal-vert Lord Baltimore, and undisposed ofuntil about 1631,t when Charles I. madethe grant to Sir Edmund Plotden, ofwhich we are now to KARL PLOYDEN. [Copied from Plantugenels New Albion.] Of this gentleman, in whose history,as he was the first Englishman who set-tied in New Jersey, no particular wouldlack interest, but little is known, exceptthat he was of an ancient family, whoderived their name from their braveryin resisting the Danes,-J that he hadserved king James I. in Ireland, and thathe was a rank monarchist. Forseeing • Narrative of Troubles with the Indians, 2. t Barclays Sketches, p. S3.} Plantagcnvt, p. 14. prol)ably the Rtf)rm which was broodingover England, and anxious to provide anescape from the terrors it denouncedagainst all Iriends of royalty, he peti-tioned Charles ]., and procured a tractof land in America, of whose limits wecan only premise with safety that theyembraced all of the territory now com-prised within New Jersey, (regardless ofthe prior grant of a l
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