Title
[Document, 1686 January 08]
Library Location
Name
Skein, John (Author)
Campbell, Neill (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
January 08, 1686
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
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 condition 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.
Identifier
columbia.jay.12226