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
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 6021; Early American imprints -- no. 6022; Early American imprints -- no. 6023; Early American imprints -- no. 6024
Publisher: Published by supscription: printed by James Parker, in New-York, 1747; and a few copies are to be sold by him, and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia; price bound, and maps coloured, three pounds; plain and stitcht only, fifty shillings, Proclamation Money.
Published: 1747
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Land tenure; History; Public lands
Other titles: Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, at the suit of John Earl of Stair ...
Notes: 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 sogned: Ja. Alexander, Jos. Murray, of council for the complainants.

Signatures: pi1 A-2G² 2H1 a-c² chi² ²b-d² ²E-F² 2chi² ²G² 3chi1 (c2, ²d2, ²G2, 3chi1 versos blank).

Printed in two columns.

Maps engraved by James Turner of Boston.

Errata notes, p. [2].

The final leaf has a facsimile front page from the New-York gazette, no. 268 (March 7, 1748), published by James Parker.

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