The  object  of  this  grant  was  to  enable  the  Duke
to  dispossess  the  Dutch,  who  were  then  in  possession  The  New  Jersey
of  much  of  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  Delaware,
under  the  name  of  New  Netherlands.  ^  •  Learning  &

Spicer's  Laws  of

The  Duke  of  York  on  the  23d  and  24th  June  ^''' ^''"^' ^•
1664,  reciting  the  king's  grant  to  him,  conveyed  to
Lord  Berkeley  and  Sir  Geo.  Carteret  the  territory
now  known  as  New  Jersey,  describing  it  as  bounded  Deeds  from  Duke
on  the  east,  part  by  the  main  sea,  and  part  by  Hud-  fe^^and  cfrtei^^^^^
son's  river,  "  and  hath  upon  the  west,  Delaware  bay        ,|^'°^  ^'
or  river  :^^  with  all  rivers,  fishings,  &c.  and  all  other
royalties,  &c.  to  the  said  lands  and  premises  belong-
ing or  in  any  wise  appertaining,  as  fully  as  the  Duke
himself  had  them.f

The  object  of  this  deed  was  the  colonization  of
New  Jersey,  and  under  it  Berkeley  and  Carteret   ♦H.e-n.
entered  and  colonized  that  State  accordingly.
It  is  unnecessary  here  to  recite  the  various  mesne
conveyances  and  undisputed  early  historical  facts
through  which  Mr.  Humphrey  formally  deduced  his
title :  or  to  state  more  than  that  on  the  7th  November
1743,  the  proprietors  of  West  Jersey — ^in  which  por-p  ^^^.^j^^^
tion  of  the  State  the  Pea  Patch  Island  was  admitted  5^r~  ^"i^

Oct.  27, 1784.
to  be,  if  in  any — directed  their  surveyor  to  survey,
&c.  "600  acres  of  unappropriated  land,^^  anywhere
in  that  division,  and,  on  the  7th  August  1782,  to  sur-
vey 6000  acres  of  like  land,  in  the  same  division  :
and  that  two  persons  named  Hall,  having  ac-
quired 126  acres  of  the  warrant  of  1782,  and  62iV


^yj^i  PEA  PATCH  ISLAND.  AfPENniX.
