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[Document, 1715 n.d.]

121. [Document, 1715 n.d.]

  • Date: 1715 n.d.
  • Summary: Unsigned manuscript in Jay's papers. Part of a petition concerning trade grievances.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1715 n.d.]

122. [Document, 1715 n.d.]

  • Name: Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) (Author) Burnet, William, 1688-1729 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1715 n.d.
  • Summary: The rector and other officials of Trinity Church, New York, congratulate William Burnet's appointment to the post of captain general and governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1717 April n.d.]

123. [Document, 1717 April n.d.]

  • Date: 1717 April n.d.
  • Summary: List includes "the Reverend Mr. Jay"(?). An accompanying note states that this was among papers acquired by Jay from his uncle John Chambers.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1717 n.d.]

124. [Document, 1717 n.d.]

  • Date: 1717 n.d.
  • Summary: Concerns the payment of debts due the colony by persons listed.
  • Number of Images: 8
[Document, 1717 November 29]

125. [Document, 1717 November 29]

  • Name: DeLancey, Stephen (Author) Hunter, Robert, 1666-1734 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 29, 1717
  • Summary: The act providing for the payment of large sums of money claimed as debts by the issuance of bills of credit to be sunk by continuing the excise on strong liquors after the expiration of its term will be of fatal consequences to the hitherto thriving ...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1717 November 29]

126. [Document, 1717 November 29]

[Document, 1718 May 14]

127. [Document, 1718 May 14]

  • Name: Franklin, William (Author) Smith, Daniel (Author)
  • Date: May 14, 1718
  • Summary: The surveys, of parcels of land along or near the Delaware and Burlington in Gloucester counties, ranging in size from 37 to 15,553 acres, belonging to William Penn, William Burgett, Amos Strettel, John Reading, Peter Frettwell, John Alford, Joseph Ki...
  • Number of Images: 14
[Document, 1718 n.d.]

128. [Document, 1718 n.d.]

  • Date: 1718 n.d.
  • Summary: Case of the Inhabitants of His Majesty's Colony of New York
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1718 n.d.]

129. [Document, 1718 n.d.]

  • Date: 1718 n.d.
  • Summary: Addenda to the main statement of the case.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1719 August 12]

130. [Document, 1719 August 12]

  • Date: August 12, 1719
  • Summary: The surveys, for 900 acres belonging to Joseph Helby, 500 acres belonging to Joseph Kirkbride, and for the so-called Morris Purchase, consisting of 91,895acres of land along the Delaware, are from Lib. A, Secretary's Office at [Burlington], and from L...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1719 August 12]

131. [Document, 1719 August 12]

  • Date: August 12, 1719
  • Summary: Records surveys made by Edward Kemp, Samuel Green, & John Budd, of parcels of land on the Delaware River, which belong to Thomas Stevenson, Joseph Kirkbride, John Decker, Solomon David, Jacob Kirkandall and Jeremy Westfalia, Cornelius Doucher and Comp...
  • Number of Images: 7
[Document, 1719 August 20]

132. [Document, 1719 August 20]

  • Date: August 20, 1719
  • Summary: The petition of Stephen DeLancey, Lancaster Syms and Henry Whileman for themselves was considered. The petitioners claim that they obtained a grant in 1704 for a tract of land called Minisink, that the Proprietors of New Jersey having heard of it, sai...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1719 July 25]

133. [Document, 1719 July 25]

  • Name: Jarrat, Allan (Author) Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 25, 1719
  • Summary: Jarrat does not wish to swear to the accuracy of the latitude determination for New York on the west side of the Hudson because his instrument is not accurate enough to measure it properly. The error in his calculation may be as great as two or three ...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1719 July 25]

134. [Document, 1719 July 25]

[Document, 1719 June 04]

135. [Document, 1719 June 04]

  • Name: Hunter, Robert, 1666-1734 (Author) Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (Addressee) Peyster, A. D. (Author)
  • Date: June 04, 1719
  • Summary: Robert Hunter and the Council for the Province of New York are distressed to find that "a Number of Men, Strangers to our persons and the Province, and we believe but very little interested in the Trade of it" have become "Advocates of a few Male cont...
  • Number of Images: 9
[Document, 1719 June 04]

136. [Document, 1719 June 04]

  • Name: Lodowick, Charles (Author) Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (Addressee)
  • Date: June 04, 1719
  • Summary: If an act of the assembly of the province of New York, passed 23 December 1717, requiring the payment and discharge of several debts due from New York to various, persons, is not disallowed, it will be very destructive to the inhabitants and the trade...
  • Number of Images: 5
[Document, 1719 June 04]

137. [Document, 1719 June 04]

  • Date: June 04, 1719
  • Summary: After consideration of the bill of the New York Assembly dated 23 December 1717 and of the merchants" objections to it, the council recommends that His Majesty confirm the act because it would tend to the great advantage and benefit of the Province of...
  • Number of Images: 9
[Document, 1719 March 01]

138. [Document, 1719 March 01]

  • Date: March 01, 1719
  • Summary: According to an already confirmed act of the General Assembly of New Jersey, George I appoints John Johnston and George Willocks Commissioners of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, Joseph Kirkbride and John Reading Commissioners of the Western Divisi...
  • Number of Images: 9
[Document, 1719 May 01]

139. [Document, 1719 May 01]

  • Date: May 01, 1719
  • Summary: Appoints Robert Walter and Isaac Hicks Commissioners and Allan Jarrat Surveyor for the Province of New York, to act in conjunction with those, appointed for the Province of New Jersey in determining which of the streams is the northernmost branch of t...
  • Number of Images: 5
[Document, 1719 May 02]

140. [Document, 1719 May 02]

  • Date: May 02, 1719
  • Summary: The council, ordered that a commission be given for running and ascertaining the line between the provinces of New York and New Jersey to Isaac Hicks and Robert Walter as Commissioners and Allen Gerard (Allane Jarrat or Jarret) as Surveyor on behalf o...
  • Number of Images: 3