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- Since April 1688
- The Proprietors of the Gloucester Tenth
- have met annually on this spot
- to elect members to represent them
- in the Council of
- the General Proprietors of
- the Western Division of New Jersey
The goal of this project is to showcase the original proprietors of West Jersey.
background
From Wikipedia
"The Dutch defeated New Sweden in 1655. Settlement of the West Jersey area by Europeans was thin until the English conquest in 1664. Beginning in the late 1670s Quakers settled in great numbers first in present day Salem County and then in Burlington which became the capital of West Jersey."
~• Besides Burlington, there were other Quaker settlements of the same era, the Proprietors having divided land into so-called Tenths. An example of one of these is the "Irish Tenth" that comprised an area of land including present day Camden.
Resources
- Hidden New Jersey
- Birth of New Jersey
- West Jersey History Project
- Council of Proprietors of West Jersey - Origin and History
- key assertion: " On March 4, 1691, Dr. Daniel Coxe conveyed all his rights and title to lands in America, consisting of over twenty-four shares or rights to Propriety in West Jersey, two shares to Propriety in East Jersey, and large tracts of land in East and West Jersey, New England and Pennsylvania, together with the right of government of West Jersey to forty-eight persons who formed the West Jersey Society."
- Using the records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors
- New Jersey Land and Property
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_(country_subdivision)]
- https://goodspeedhistories.com/john-reading-and-the-creation-of-hun...
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A sub-project has been added built on a list which is limited to the actual Council of Proprietors of West Jersey through 1711