This is part of a map drawn by D. Stanton Hammond in 1963, showing the northern line of Bowde\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s purchase. In order to see it, you must click on the picture to enlarge it. Then look for the dotted line that runs through the middle of the map.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is an abstract of the two land purchases from N. J. Archives, Book B1, pp. 179 & 181:<\/p>\n

March 30, 1688,\u00ac\u2020 Indian Deed. Hoham, Teptaopamun and other Sackimackers to Adlord Bowde, now of Burlington, merchant, for Gov. D. Coxe, for tract on Shabbicunck Creek, along road to NY, 3 miles from Falls of Delaware, along Tho Budd past Menapenascon to mouth of Laocolon Creek above Mecokins Wigwam, thence down along the Delaware to 2 miles above the falls, thence E. to Shabbicunck Cr.; no acreage given.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

April 9, 1688, Indian Deed. Hocham, Kepanoockonickon, Romasickamen, Tiptaopaman and Vevenutting, Sackimackers, to Adlord Bowde, on behalf of Gov. Daniel Coxe, for a tract from Tho Budd\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s line NW to the Northbranch of the Rariton R. down said river to the road from Delawar Falls to NY, along road to another point in Budd\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s line over the Stony Hills on the east side of milstone River, thence NW, SW to bgn; no acreage given.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This huge Indian purchase alarmed the newly-formed Council of West Jersey Proprietors, so they summoned Bowde to meet with them. The outcome of that meeting was that Bowde was permitted to \u201a\u00c4\u00fatake up dividends of 62,400 acres on Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s proprieties\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 [Pomfret 1964:71]. Half of this was in what was called \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe northern purchase\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 which amounted to about 36,000 acres.<\/p>\n

Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s Agent in West Jersey<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Adlord Bowde died probably in December of 1688. Administration of his estate was initially granted to James Budd, and after James Budd\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s decease in 1690, to Susanna Budd, wife of Thomas Budd dec\u201a\u00c4\u00f4d. But none of them made an account of the estate. Thomas Budd did not die until 1698, so it\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s hard to understand how his widow could have been granted the administration. This is because six years earlier, on Oct. 14, 1692, administration was granted to Jane Scott of Lewis, Sussex Co., PA, widow of Issac Bowde, merchant. The entry says:<\/p>\n

“There being heretofore on or about 14 December Anno 1688 by Jno Skene Administracione granted to James Budd since dec’d, of ye same estate, And also by sd Jno Skene an Administracione granted to Susanna ye wife of Tho. Budd of ye estate of sd Ja: Budd, And noe Acct. by either of ye said Administrat’rs appearing of ye estate of sd Adlord Bowde ye said estate lies in obscurity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How fascinating that the Italian term \u201a\u00c4\u00faadministracione\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 was used instead of \u201a\u00c4\u00f2administration.\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 In fact, thanks to Google search, I can state that the abstract of Bowde\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s estate is the only one in Vol. I, Abstracts of Wills, 1670-1730, that uses the term \u201a\u00c4\u00faadministracione.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 What a fascinating mystery.<\/p>\n

In any case, with the death of Adlord Bowde, Daniel Coxe needed a new agent in West New Jersey. It took awhile for him to select one, but by August 1689, he settled on John Tatham. This was shrewd since Tatham had been a member of the Council of Proprietors since its inception in 1687. Tatham also served on the commission of 1688 from West New Jersey in the negotiations over the province dividing line, and had lately moved to Burlington from his home in Pennsylvania. On the other hand, Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s choice was a foolish one since the wealthy Tatham was not a Quaker, which made his motives suspect among his neighbors and did little to promote support for Gov. Coxe.<\/p>\n

As an absentee governor, Coxe had to depend on his Lt. Governor John Skene. According to John D. McCormick, Coxe named Edward Hunloke to act as Deputy Governor, presumably in place of Skene, but soon afterwards he named his agent John Tatham to the position. But the West Jersey Assembly would not give their approval for Tatham because of charges that he was a Jacobite [Pomfret 1956: 158; Smith pp. 191-92]. In the case of Tatham, such a charge mostly likely meant that he was a Catholic. John D. McCormick has discovered that in fact Tatham was a Catholic, a story I will save for another post.<\/p>\n

So John Tatham did not act as Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s deputy governor after all. However, he did continue to act as his agent in matters of real estate. One of his first acts was to carry through with obtaining title to the 62,400 acres of land allotted to Daniel Coxe, much to the alarm of the West Jersey Proprietors.<\/p>\n

Residents of West New Jersey were probably even more unnerved when Edmund Andros, Governor of the Dominion of New England, visited Burlington on August 18, 1688. That was his only visit, but I am sure it was more than enough. Andros did not have the demeanor nor the temperament to make a good impression on Quaker farmers and merchants.<\/p>\n

Here I will take my leave of Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s landholdings in or near Hunterdon County to describe (in my next post) some of the other things Coxe was planning for West New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Coxe began investing in land in the English colonies, he hired explorers and corresponded with them eagerly. He also corresponded with colonial governors and with the principle Indian traders. This activity became more focused in the years after he sold his proprietorship of West New Jersey. It would be fascinating to read these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[36,53,16,17,19],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunterdon-county","category-west-new-jersey","tag-daniel-coxe","tag-indians","tag-land-titles","tag-proprietors","tag-surveying","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23604,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}