A bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, at the suit of John Earl of Stair, and others, proprietors of the Eastern-Division of New-Jersey, against Benjamin Bond, and some other persons of Elizabeth-Town, distinguished by the name of the Clinker Lot Right Men
Subtitle: with three large maps, done from copper-plates : to which is added, the publications of the Council of Proprietors of East New-Jersey, and Mr. Nevill's speeches to the General Assembly, concerning the riots committed in New-Jersey, and the pretences of the rioters, and their seducers : these papers will give a better light into the history and constitution of New-Jersey, than any thing hitherto published, the matters whereof have been chiefly collected from records.
Contributors: Bond, Benjamin.; Alexander, James, 1691-1756.; Murray, Joseph, ca. 1694-1757.; Nevill, Samuel, 1697?-1764.; Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756.; Turner, James, d. 1759, engraver.; Parker, James, 1714-1770, printer.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, bookseller.; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey.; Clinker Lot Right Men.; New Jersey. Court of Chancery.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by James Parker, in New-York, 1747; And a few copies are to be sold by him, and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia
Published: 1747
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Land grants -- New Jersey.; Elizabeth (N.J.) -- History.; New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Notes: LC copy has inscriptions on t.p.: "John Lawrence's book, 1757" crossed out and following inscription added: "Alex. C. McWhorter, 1807, $1.25". Has bookplate: Force Collection.
Evans 6021
Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 426
A presentation of the case of the East Jersey proprietors against the occupants of lands in the town of Elizabeth deriving their title from grants made by Governor Nicolls about eighty years earlier.
The bill (filed Apr. 13, 1745) is signed: Ja. Alexander, Jos. Murray, of council for the complainants.
"Published by subscription ... Price bound, and maps coloured, three pounds; plain and stitcht only, fifty shillings, proclamation money."
Signatures: pi² A-2G² 2H1 a-c² chi², ²b-d² E-H² chi1.
"The New-York gazette--revived in the Weekly post-boy ... March 7, 1747-8. Numb. 268": leaf at end.
Maps engraved by James Turner.
Commissioned map drawings by Lewis Evans. Cf. Miller.
Errata: t.p. verso.
LC has issue with colored maps.