John Skein, Deputy Governor of West Jersey, Samuel Jennings, Thomas Olive, George Hutchinson, Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Lambert and Joseph Pope, Proprietors and inhabitants of West New Jersey, acknowledge themselves bound to pay Lord Neill Campbell, Governor of East Jersey, and Captain Andrew Hamilton, and John Campbell, Proprietors and Inhabitants of East Jersey 5,000 pounds of lawful money as a condit ion of settlement of the line of division between the said provinces. If John Skein et al. do not agree with the line to be determined by William Emley and John Reid, or with the decision of their umpire, this obligation shall be null and void. >From The Public Records of the Province of New Jersey, Book B, 52, examined by Bowes Reed. Entered before the Commission to settle the boundary between New York and New Jersey Boundary 23 August 1769.
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United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Jay, John, 1745-1829