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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114This is a continuation of my research into the history of the Pauch farm in Delaware Township. This was once the property of Samuel Green, which is why I am publishing it here on my website. It was Samuel Green who got me started on this blog, back in 2009. Apologies to those of my readers who were interested in what I wrote 4 and 5 years ago for taking so long to return to Samuel Green’s life.<\/p>\n
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To begin, I must go back to 1688, and the Governor of West New Jersey, Daniel Coxe.1<\/a><\/sup>\u00ac\u2020Coxe purchased shares of West New Jersey from the widow of Edward Byllinge, and planned to turn many of those shares into properties that he could then sell. But he had no intention of leaving England, so he chose an agent to act for him, one Adlord Bowde, draper of Hertford. By October 15, 1687, when Coxe filed his power of attorney, Bowde was already \u201a\u00c4\u00fanow bound for Burlington as land agent.\u201a\u00c4\u00f92<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n I am guessing that Coxe made it very clear to Bowde that as many shares as possible should be used to get land surveys made in his name, but on his arrival, Bowde discovered that the proprietors had not made a sufficiently large Indian purchase to realize all of Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s shares. So Mr. Bowde took it upon himself to make such a purchase, actually three separate purchases that together became known as the 30,000 acres (which I described it in a previous article, W<\/span><\/a>est NJ 1688 and Daniel Coxe<\/a>)<\/span>.<\/p>\n Adlord Bowde died soon afterwards, about December 1688 in Burlington. His successor as agent was James Budd who made the survey for Coxe. Oddly enough, the northern boundary of that survey, a jagged and very distinctive line that now divides Hopewell Township from the Amwells, was well south of the northern line of the 30,000-acre purchase. This meant that the land that lay north of the Hopewell line and south of the northern line of the Indian purchase was available to other proprietors who had shares that qualified them for surveys. Perhaps the West Jersey Proprietors told Budd that the survey for Coxe must leave some land in the Indian Purchase for the other proprietors.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n It is in that area that I turn my attention, specifically to a survey made in 1701 for Richard Bull of 300 acres.4<\/a><\/sup> I have previously written about Richard Bull\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s life and relations<\/a>,\u00ac\u2020but now it is time to discover more about this particular piece of land.<\/p>\n As mentioned in the previous article, it is thought that Bull made a deathbed gift of the residue of his property to his sister Sarah, wife of Samuel Green. This may be true, as the Hammond map of proprietary tracts suggests that Green did come into possession of that property after Bull\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s death. And this suggestion is reinforced by the fact that Samuel Green\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s son Richard was the owner by 1737.\u00ac\u2020Unfortunately, there is no deed recorded between Richard Bull\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s widow and Samuel Green for this property.<\/p>\n But first, some words about Samuel Green, who I have written about before. (You can search my website on his name and get a confusing list of articles. Instead, please go to the end of this post to see a more useful list.)<\/p>\nSamuel Green in Amwell Township<\/h2>\n