Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

near my P rquisits, viz, ten shillings for every house

am but promised £300, which is not

@ the like for every hundred acres patented by

me, established by a committee appointed by the Assembly for the establishing of all fees, where Cap 4 Santen may remember himself was chairman, Alsoe what they have given to those other Gentlemen I know nothing of it @ upon my word in Gen 1 have not got the fourth part of my Pquisits,

chusing rather to want them than take from the poor people that cannot spare it To the Fifteenth concerning a farm at East Jersey belonging to his Mat y fyc

Mr Santen might have given a better account of this if his malice had suffered him

The Farm at

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at a Rack-rent, the proprietors of East Jersey putting East Jersey paid £10, p annum to his Maty us to more trouble than the value of it, they constantly disturbing the Tenants on pretence that his r

Mat y had granted that to them, so that I conclude it would be more inconvenient to keep it than to part with it.

Therefore Judge Palmer having an interest in East-Jersey

@ an influence with the

Governor there, on his giving mee his obligation to pay as a fine the summ of £60. to the King in case hee should not think fit to forgive it @ the rent of twenty shillings p r ann. @ to defend the title, I gave him a lease of