or publick Streams Ports Fresh Waters or Creeks Whatsoever within the flowing of the Sea & high Water Mark throughout our aforesaid province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey & Territories thereon depending & Belonging & Maritime parts of the same and thereunto Adjacent or Elsewhere within our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with the Cognizance of Mayhem in the aforesaid places within our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid & Flowing of the Sea & Water there hapning with power also of punishing all delinquents, in that kind according to the Exigencies of the Law & Customs aforesaid and to do exercise expedite and execute all & singular other things which in and about the premises only shall be Necessary or thought Meet according to the Rights Statutes Laws Ordinances & Customs aforesaid with full power of Deputing & Surrogating in your place for the premises one or more Deputy or Deputies as often as you shall think fit. And also with full power from time to time of Naming appointing, ordaining Assigning, Making & constituting whatsoever other Necessary fit & Convenient Offices & Ministers under you for the said Office and execution thereof in our said Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey and Territories thereunto belonging & Maritime parts of the same & thereto Adjacent Whatsoever Saving always the Right of our High Court of Admiralty of England & also of the Judge & Register of the said Court from whom or either of them it is not our intention in any thing to derogate by these presents & saving to every one who shall be wronged or grieved by any Definite Sentence or Interlocutory decree which shall be given in the Vice Admiralty Court of our Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey aforesaid & Territories thereunto belonging the Right of appealing to our aforesaid High Court of Admiralty of England Provided nevertheless & under this express condition that if, you the said Thomas Boone our Captain General & Governor in Chief aforesaid shall not yearly, to wit at the end of every year between the feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel & All Saints duly Certifie & cause to be effectually certified if you shall be thereunto required to us & our Lieutenant Official Principal & Commissary General & Special Judge & President of the High Court of our Admiralty of England aforesaid, all that which from time to time by Virtue of these presents, you shall do execute collect & receive in the premises or any of them together with your full & faithfull account thereupon to be made in an Authentick Form & Sealed with the Seal of our Office remaining in your Custody, that from thence & after Default therein these your Letters Patent of the Office of Vice Admiral aforesaid as above Granted Shall be Null & Void & of no force or Effect Further We do [in] our Name command all & singular our Governor & Justices Mayors Sheriff's Captains Marshalls Bailiffs Keepers of all our Gaols & Prisons Constables & other Officers & faithfull & Liege Subjects Whatsoever & every of them as well within Liberties & Franchises as without that in and about the Execution of the premises & every of them. They be Aiding favoring assisting Submissive & yield Obedience in all things as is fitting to you the aforesaid Thomas Boone our Captain General & Governor in Chief of our Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey aforesaid and to your Deputy Whomsoever and to all other officers by you appointed or to be Appointed of our said Vice Admiralty in our Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey aforesaid & Territories thereunto belonging & Maritime parts of the same & thereto adjoining under pain of the Law, & the peril which will fall thereon Given at London in the High Court of our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty & of our Reign the thirty third. The above Commission was published at Perth Amboy the 4th day of July Anno Domini 1760 & at Burlington the 9th [July] 1760 following. CHAS READ Secry, Letter from Thomas Boone, a resident of South Carolina, to the Lords of Trade, acknowledging the honor conferred upon him by his appointment as Governor of New Jersey. [From P. R. O., B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 8, I. 88.] CHARLES TOWN S Carolina Feb: 14th 1760 My Lords I had the Honour of being made acquainted yesterday, by a Letter from your Lordships of the 14th of Nov' with the Character that his Majesty has been most graciously Pleased to Confer on me, and Receive this Testimony of his Majesty's Royal Favour with all Imaginable Duty and Humility. I beg to return your Lordships my warmest and most Humble Thanks for your Congratulations on this Occasion, & to assure your Lordships that I shall in Obedience to your Commands, Repair to New Jersey with all Possible Diligence. I have the honour to be My Lords Obedient Humble Servant Letter from Mr. Robert Hunter Morris to Governor Bernard showing why he ought to have been permitted to resume his office of Chief Justice, and inclosing a copy of the patent appointing him to that office. [From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 8, I, 91.] AMBOY in New Jersey Feb'y 22 1760 His Excellency Gov Bernard Sir Your Excellency will receive under this cover, a Copy of the Patent, appointing me Chief Justice of this Province dated in March 1738 the Tenor of which you will observe is during my good behaviour. This Commission was Issued by the Unauimous Advice of His Majesty's Council, And the Appointment was perfectly agreeable to the Assembly then Setting. A little before my acceptance of the Government of Pensilvania, I wrote to the Lords Commissioners for Trade; And among other things, desired their Lordships would "Give me leave to resign the Office of Chief Justice," but their Lordships gave me no answer to that letter, which I esteemed a refusal to Comply with my request, And therefore upon my Arrival in New Jersey, on my way to Pensilvania I applied to Mr Belcher His Majesties then Governor, & the Council. I informed them of that part of my letter to the board of trade, desired they would agree upon some person to Succeed me, and Offered to resign the Office in form: But both he and the Council told me that the Office of Governor of Pensilvania was not incompatible with that of Chief Justice of Jersey, as the Provinces were only Separated by a River, and therefore did not accept of my offer to resign. Being thus continued in the office, I frequently came from Pensilvania into New Jersey, and in part Executed it, but the affairs of that Province would not permit me to do the whole Business of the Office. In the year 1756 I resigned the Government of Pensilvania, removed into this Province, and Exercised the office, till towards the end of the year 1757, when I departed for England, with the leave of M' Reading the then Commander in Chief. These Sir are the facts Your Excellency Seemed desirous of being informed of, relative to that Office, as to the place itself, you must be sensible that the income of it, is now & has ever been, too inconsiderable to make me in the least anxious about it. I took the office & have held it, rather to prevent it falling into Contempt than Expecting any Support from it, and am therefore, as I have more than once assured your Excellency (as to myself) Extreamly Indifferent about it, but cannot help wishing, for the sake of the province, that an Office of Such Consequence and in which the people are so nearly intrested, May always be in the hands of a Man of independent fortune, & Known Integrity I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient and most Humble Serv1 Rob H. Morris Copy of the Patent under Seal of N. York appointing Rob Hunter Morris Esq Chief Justice of New Jersey. Rec1 with Mr Bernard's L're of 25 Febry 1760 GEORGE the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the Faith &c To Our trusty and well beloved Robert Hunter Morris Esq: Greeting We reposing especial trust |