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The model of the government of the province of East-New-Jersey in America and encouragements for such as designs to be concerned there : published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place.
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Scot, George, d. 1685.
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within 8. or 10. mile thereof before we saw it the country appears all over Woodie I landed on a sandie-bank and closs by the flood march where grew Bayes sassafax and severall prettie shrubs I knew not The Woods consists of severall kinds of Oaks Chesnut Hickacy Walnut Poplar and Beetch Cedars grow on swamps and barrens Firrs and Pines only on barrens The ground generally is 2. or 3. inches deep of black dung as it were below that is reedish mould what you heard of the product of the Indian Corn viz. 100. or 200. fold of 20 or 30 fold Inglish wheat of the abundance of dears and wild horse and severall turkies and of the great plenty of fishes are all true There is very much Cider here In 12. or 14. years you may make 100. barrells from your own planting the best fleshes of all kinds ever I did see are here tho this in respect of what you have heard be generally tautollogie yet I found my self oblidged to writ it because I am witness to the truth thereof without Hyperbole Notwithstanding of all this it s very troublesome expensive to settle a plantation here and when it is done I cannot promise you a man will grow verry rich but he needs want nothing and it is not every one will agree with the solitude of the Woods these who can and resolve to lead an countty life cannot doe better then come hither a merchant who will come over and set up store in the country for a year will make cent per cent of several commodities with which I doe allow none to be acquainted but commerads I wish I had some money of my stock so imployed and sent safely here Johnstouns of spoiswood and I haue taken up upon a river 6 or 8. miles in Amboy your Brother Thomas and Robert are here also servants are not easily intertained here I designed to have shot al 's many squirles as would have furred a coaâ— for you but I am otherwise taken up I have omitted to tell you that the weather here is constantly clear the sun rises and setts free of clouds I have obseved none to have the cough in this country tho I have frequently lyne in the woods aboundance of fire is an excellent counter charm Now brother as to your own coming over it will be time to invite you when I have a good house and interâ—ainment to treat you with unbought for you must not feel any of the inconveniencies I have met with we are all well I pray God this may find you also present my service to all friends Male or Femal this letter wil serve that present my service to my Grand-Mother upon Christmass I drank her good-health in Rhumb Madera and Fial Wine If I can be frugall I may be soon rich here by my next I hope to ensure 60 or 70. lib to the person for we want a minister this from Your Affectionat Brotner Tho Fullertoun A Letter from the same hand to the Laird of Brotherstoun in the Mairns of the same date Kind Comerad YOu were pleased so kindly to concern your self with my welfare when I was by you and I find that absence augments true friendship that I am oblidged to acquaint you with my present fortune which I hope shall be far better then what I could expect by so much stock in Scotland This place is not altogether bowrish for at New-York you may have railing and Gallanting enough the inhabitants are generally great spenders Dear Brothertoun writ to me and give me an accompt of affairs for I assure you neither Governour nor Council will medle with yours to me nor mine to you by my next I will writ to Clâ—nie and John Johnstoun in the mean time present my service to them I am in haste to end writing tho ever being Your Oblidged Commerad and humble servant Tho Fullertoun Abstract of a Letter from Robert Hardie Merchant in Aberdeen to his Son John Hardie Merchant there dated from Elizabeth-Town the 8. of December 1684. Loving Son I Have writ two Letters already to you at our arrival an other shewing the death of your Brother William and something of the country but knowes not if they be come to your hands and now having this occasion know that I am in good health and your Brother Alexander praised be God know that I intend to reside here and should wish that I had all my childring with me but your conveniencie cannot permit neithâ—r am I able to transport them as yet however I desire you to acquaint your sister Elspeth that I desire her to come over if possible with her first conveniencie I inâ—end before her coming to have a new house in New-Perth and a Plantation near by it if I had gott an good accompt of that Litle cargo I sent over I would have lived upon it here al 's well as upon 100 lib. Sterling in Scotland But I have got an bad accompt of it how ever I hope to Provide for you all with what is left if the Lord bless Shew my brother and brothers in law that if they would come over with each of them two Servants they could have good Land here at one easie rate they might live better then their masters and with less trouble if they took but half the pains They take in Scotland for the Land is an brave and plentifull Land Shew Andrew and David Hardies that if they can but pay their Passage and come to me I shall make them to live in better condition then ever formerly I doubt not but some of our neighbours will come over to bring Servants here who will give you an true accompt how I and others can live here believâ— me this is an brave Land and any who will be Industrous may live very comfortably here He who comes first will have the best choise and most profitable as for idle-men who will neither work nor trade need never come here for there are none idle here I wish you all a blising from God and so rests Your affiectionat father Robert Hardie A Letter from James Johnston of Spotswood to his brother John Johnston dated the 13. of February 1685. from Piscatta way in East-New-Jersey Dear Brother THese are to remember my kindest affection to you my Mother and all friends we have kept our healths hither to exceeding well Have endured an short hut very cold witner now the Weather hath been for some time bygone exceeding good was an Bear-seed season with you I have been throw several or most places of this Countrey of late But am not yet resolved where my first Husbandry shall be the Land is exceeding good which is yet to take up much better then what is inhabited only not so convenient the difficulty of clearing many places is no wayes considerable I find Land where Several hundered Plughes may be presently set a work I take all pains I can to be conveniently setled and the Governour refuses us nothing we desire
would poison themselves There is a Flee by the salt Marishes most troublesome in Summer but is not in the up-lands I am mightily well satisfied with my coming over neither do I think I could live again in Scotland In the Summer there is plenty of Fruits Peaches Walnuts Chesnuts Strawberries and another berry like Currans Vines as good as any where I and all who have come over have kept our health very well our food hath for the most part been Venison we got from the Indians which I like exceeding well The Indian Corn Indian Beans and Pease are pleasant Grains we have very good fishing present my service to all Friends and believe me to be ever Sir Your oblidged Servant James Johnstoun Sir I Nothing question but by the perusall of the above written Letters you are abundantly satisfied that East-Jersey as to all things necessar will accommodat our present design But if some Malevolent Persons who because they have not the courage nor resolutâ— to adventure upon such an undertaking themselves do cavill at the design in others may insinuat that the greatest part of these Letters being written by Gentlemen it may be presumed interest may oblidge them to represent things otherwise then they are to the advantage of the place This is easily answered that there are severall persons in this Town who have been upon the place who have perused all their Letters and declare they find nothing contained therein that they can contradict But as for a further proof thereof I have thought fit to conclude with a letter from a Masson sent over as a Servant by Captain Hamiltoun he being a plain Countrey-man it is not very probable he can have any design I had the Letters from his said Master as followeth A Letter from James Cockburn Masson Servitour in East-Jersey in America to Captain Hamiltoun at the Ship-tavern in Edinburgh dated the 12. of March 1685. to his Uncle James Broun Shoemaker in Kelso UNcle these few Lines do testifie that I am well and in good health blessed be GOD for it desiring to hear the like from you for I am very well in this land of America We lake neither wild nor tame to eat the most part of our drink is Rumm Cyder and Beer such as have these to sell drives a very good Trade I am working at my work daily in good weather and have very good incouragment among the old Planters if my Sister Katharin incline to come over she may have good service here and Francie also it is better to be bound some few years then come free except they have a good stock it is dear living here the first year or two The Indians are a harmless People and very kind to us they are not a harie People as was said to us in Scotland a Shoemaker would live very well here if he bring any store of Leather with him the Shoes are five or six shillings a pair there is nothing discourages us more then want of Ministers here but now they have agreed about their Stipends there is one to be placed in New-Perth Piscattaway Woodbridge and Elizabeth Town they have a mind to bring them from Scotland Uncle I hope you will let me know of your welfare and how the Town is repaired again and so I rest your Nephew untill death John Cockburn Another from the same hand to George Fae Masson in Kelso from New-Perth in America the 20. of March 1685. Cusin THese are to show you that I am in good health blessed be GOD for it wishing to hear the like from you We had a long Voyage but we came very well to our Harbour in this place of America within a stone-cast of my Masters Lott it is upon the very Harbour this Town is scituate betwixt two great Rivers the one called Rariton the other Hudsons It is a very pleasant Countrey and good for all Tradsmen You was angry with me for coming away but I repent nothing of it my self for I have abundance of Imployment I am at the building of a great stone house in New-Perth with another Scots-man They build most with Timber but are beginning to build with stone there is as good stone in this Countrey as in Scotland if they were at the pains to find it out there are not many of our Trade in this Province Any who hath a mind to come here will get good wages these who have a mind to come here will do far better then in Scotland I have no more desire to my Native-Countrey then I had never been in it they had better be bound some years with a good Master then come over frree for it is dear living at first here The Natives of this land are a harmless People they do wrong no to no man they are very kind to us tell my sister if she please to come over she may have good service here Remember me to all Friends and Comorads in Kelso and so I rest your Cusing while I live John Cockburn A Breif ADVERTISEMENT Concerning East-New-Jersey in AMERICA THat whereas it hath upon solid grounds been by very Judicious Men judged as well the advantage of the Nation in generall as of the particular Undertakers to have an Interest in some of the America Plantation and that in Order to the Promoting this Design There went in July last 1684. a Vessel from Leith with 160. Passengers or thereby another from Montross with 130. to East-New-Jersey in which two Vessels were some Gentlemen and Merchants of very good Repute the account of their safe Arrivall in eight weeks after their parting from Aberdeen and their several Opinions of that Countrey all agreeing anent the Fertility pleasantness and Wholesomness thereof as being stored with all things necessar for the comfortable Accommodation and Life of Man being compared with former Relations of that Countrey and both confirmed as Truth by several Gentlemen Merchants at present in Edinburgh who have been there The consideration of this as of the reasonable constitution of the Government the Model whereof hath been fully perused and found satisfactory hath ingaged many to pitch upon this Province of East-New-Jersâ—â— as the most proper sâ—â—t for a Collony of this Nation The same being a Climat agreeable to our Constitutions and a place fit for Trade and of great Security being as it were the Centre of the English Plantations and a place affording in plenty all desirable Accommodations And seeing the Approbation of these in Authority is absolutlie requisit for countenancing and encouraging such a Design without which it cannot be expected that any such Attempt can be made effectual Mr. George Scot of Pitlochie resolving to settle his Family in that place hath procured the following Pass By the Right Honourable Earl of Perth Lord High Chancellor of Scotland c. These are Permitting and allowing Mr. George Scot of Pitlochie with his Lady Children and Family and such other Persons as he shall ingage to pass from this Kingdom either