model of the government of the province of East New Jersey in America
Subtitle: and encouragements for such as designs to be concerned there.
By: Published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 78186
Publisher: Printed by J. Reid
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: New Jersey -- Politics and government -- To 1775; New Jersey -- Description and travel
Notes: To James, Earl of Perth, Lord Drummond and Stobhall, &c ... John, Viscount of Melfoord ... George Viscount of Tarbet [dedicatory letter, signed George Scot] p. [iii-v]

"It was, says the author, the outcome of a visit to London in 1679, when he enjoyed ʻthe opportunity of frequent converse with several substantial and judicious gentlemen concerned in the American plantations' ... The most valuable part of the work is a series of letters from the early settlers in New Jersey. ʻThe Model' was plagiarised by Samuel Smith in his ʻHistory of New Jersey', 1721, and is quoted by Bancroft; but James Grahame, author of the ʻRise and progress of the United States' [1827] first attached due importance to it ... Copies of the original, which are very rare, are in the British Museum, the Edinburgh Advocate's Library, at Göttingen, in Harvard College Library, and in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society, and two others are in private hands in America. In some copies a passage (p. 37) recommending religious freedom as an inducement to emigration is modified."--Dict. nat. biog

Cf. also W. A. Whitehead, Contributions to the early hist. of Perth Amboy, 1856, p. 24-31

Microfiche (negative) Louisville [Ky.] Lost Cause Press, 1978. 5 sheets. 10.5 x 14.8 cm. ([Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary ... ])

Sabin 78186