Title
[Document, 1682 August 24]
Library Location
Name
James II, King of England, 1633-1701 (Author)
Penn, William, 1644-1718 (Author)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
August 24, 1682
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Confirms and grants to William Penn, son of William Penn deceased, all that land on the Delaware River and Bay beginning twelve miles south of the town of Newcastle otherwise called Delaware, and extending south to the Whorekills, otherwise called Capin Lopin, on yearly payment of one rose to the Duke of York on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, if demanded. Within the space of one year from 24 August 1682, William Penn, his heirs or assigns shall have built one or more public office or offices of registry in which shall be set down and registered all manner of rents and other profits which they shall raise out of the land granted to them and shall pay to the Duke of York, his heirs and assigns one full moiety of all these profits. The Duke of York, his heirs, and assigns shall have the right to enter in and upon the said premises, and take possession of the equivalent of what is owed to them until the moiety and arrears shall be paid together with all costs and damages for the same. James Duke of York has appointed John Moll of Newcastle and Ephriam Harman of Newcastle as his true and lawful attorneys with full power and authority in all the premises mentioned, to insure peaceable possession of the land. Whatever Moll and Harman shall do according to the true intent and meaning of the grant shall be by virtue of the present indenture good and effectual in the law. From the New York Secretary's Office, Lib. A, Entries of Letters Patent, etc., 38. Examined by Goldsbrow Banyar. Entered before the Commission to settle the boundary between New York and New Jersey [July - October] 1769.
Identifier
columbia.jay.12294