In June 1684, landowners in the Third Tenth were ordered to prove their deeds before the Burlington Court. There were 38 property owners in the Third Tenth, according to a listing in the Burlington Court Book (pp. 27-29). Also recorded were 87 landowners in the first two tenths, although the Burlington Court Book does not explicitly state that that is where they were from (pp. 30-32). A surprising number claimed property that had neither survey nor deed on paper. They were mostly residents who predated the Quaker immigration that began in 1677.<\/p>\n

Richard Green\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s name was not on the list; in fact, there was no one with the name Green. For all we know, Richard Green might have been living in Gloucester even so. He may have failed to appear before the Court before the list was drawn up. John Reading and Thomas Bull were also not listed. They probably arrived soon after the list was made.<\/p>\n

Landowners in the Third Tenth (Gloucester)<\/strong>
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William Albertson<\/td>\n	Jonas Keene<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Arnold<\/td>\n	Marcus Lawrence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Biles<\/td>\n	Richard Lawrence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Benjamin Bramma<\/td>\n	Neales Lawson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Carelton<\/td>\n	Hance Peterson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Carpenter<\/td>\n	Neales Matson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Cole<\/td>\n	Hannah Newbie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Francis Collins<\/td>\n	Jeremiah Richards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woolley Derickson<\/td>\n	Richard Russell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Erickson<\/td>\n	Thomas Sharpe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edward Everett<\/td>\n	Henry Stacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Casper Fish\/Fisk<\/td>\n	Thomas Thackeray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Frampton<\/td>\n	Henry Treadway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Hance<\/td>\n	Robet Turner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andreas Hoeman<\/td>\n	Daniel Walton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Hogge<\/td>\n	William Warner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Howell<\/td>\n	Henry Wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Ithell<\/td>\n	John Wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Kea<\/td>\n	Robert Zane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Landowners in the First & Second Tenths (Burlington)<\/strong><\/h3>\n Some names were listed twice (2), presumably for second tracts of land. I suspect that they owned land in both the first and second tenths. Names of those who also appeared in the Third Tenth have an asterisk *. \n<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Samuel Andrews<\/td>\n John Long<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Antram<\/td>\n Bryan Morehouse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Daniel Bacon<\/td>\n John Murfin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Samuel Barker<\/td>\n Robert Murfin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Barnes<\/td>\n Michael Newbold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Bartin<\/td>\n Samuel Oldale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Beard<\/td>\n John Pancras<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Francis Beswick<\/td>\n Roger Parke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Biddle<\/td>\n John Pattison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Black<\/td>\n Robert Pearson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Samuel Borden<\/td>\n James Pharoe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Blowers<\/td>\n Thomas Revell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Mordecai Bowden<\/td>\n John Rogers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Bowman<\/td>\n Robert Scholey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Budd (2)<\/td>\n Thomas Scholey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Browne<\/td>\n Thomas Sh[e]arman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Butcher<\/td>\n John Shinn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Cripps<\/td>\n Thomas Singleton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Curtice<\/td>\n Andrew Smith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Curtice<\/td>\n Seth Smith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Francis Davenport<\/td>\n John Sno[w]den<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Daye<\/td>\n Henry Stacy (2) *<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Emley<\/td>\n Mahlon Stacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Farnsworth<\/td>\n Robert Stacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Elias Farre<\/td>\n Hugh Staniland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Eleazer Fenton<\/td>\n Joseph Stones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Fouke<\/td>\n Edmund Stuard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Peter Fretwell<\/td>\n Thomas Terry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Fullwood<\/td>\n John Theakes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n George Goforth<\/td>\n Thomas Tindall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Goslinge and partners<\/td>\n Percival Towle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Richard Guy<\/td>\n John Underhill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Godfrey Hancock<\/td>\n Mathew Watson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Peter Harrison<\/td>\n Nathaniel West<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Marmaduke Hawsman<\/td>\n Robert Wilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Hickson<\/td>\n Thomas Wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Hooten<\/td>\n John Wood *<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Horner<\/td>\n Anthony Woodhouse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n George Hutchinson (2)<\/td>\n John Woolston<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n John Lambert<\/td>\n Joshua Wright<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Thomas Lambert (2)<\/td>\n Samuel Wright<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n William Laswell<\/td>\n Thomas Wright (2)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Daniel Leeds<\/td>\n Robert Young<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n On the list were \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe 3 brothers wheelwrights\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 with no names given. Either their names were not known, or their names were so well known it wasn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t necessary to mention them.<\/p>\n The Byllinge-Jennings Dispute<\/strong><\/h3>\n Jennings and Budd departed for England in the summer of 1684. According to John E. Pomfret, when they visited Byllinge, he threatened to have them imprisoned for usurpation. They in turn threatened to take him to court. This sort of thing did not sit well with Quakers. The existing court system, like the government itself, was not sympathetic to the them. In fact, this year, persecution of the Quakers seemed to get worse, with many thrown in jail for trumped up offenses.<\/p>\n Jennings and Budd were persuaded to submit their complaint to arbitration by a panel of 14 Quakers [see Stellhorn & Birkner, pg 23]. I presume that the petition drafted by the West Jersey Assembly was presented to these arbitrators.<\/p>\n During the summer of 1684, William Penn had learned that Quakers were being persecuted in England. He also was concerned about challenges to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth coming from Lord Baltimore. This persuaded him to return to England, but he did not arrive until October 6th, so he was not among the group that was gathered to decide the fate of the governorship of West Jersey. Curiously, in a fragment of autobiography, Penn wrote about his arrival in England and meeting with King Charles and his brother James Duke of York, and also about his finding that Quakers were now far more persecuted than when he had left for America in 1682. But he wrote nothing about the dispute with Edward Byllinge.<\/p>\n Four of the arbitrators were George Fox, George Whitehead, Alexander Parker and Steven Crisp. After listening to both sides, the majority decided on October 11th that the election of Jennings as governor was illegal. The argument they followed was that the Concessions & Agreements themselves could not grant the right of government, and therefore could not divest Byllinge of his office (which was granted to him by James II in 1680) without his consent, which he certainly was not providing. Edward Byllinge was therefore approved as Governor of West New Jersey and deemed to be the chief proprietor.<\/p>\n Six of the 14 arbitrators would not sign the award, even though it stated that Byllinge should confirm the Concessions & Agreements. Oddly enough, he never did this, even though he had a hand in authoring them. Encouraged by the dissent among the arbitrators, Jennings and Budd remained in England to appeal the ruling to the Lords of Trades and Plantations, but without success. Stellhorn and Birkner wrote [pg 23] that Jennings was greatly disillusioned by this defeat, and \u201a\u00c4\u00fafor the rest of his long life . . . remained an unyielding foe of arbitrary authority.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 Jennings deserves the rank of hero in West New Jersey history.<\/p>\n I assume that Jennings and Budd communicated the bad news to the West New Jersey Assembly, although it does not seem to have reached Burlington until after the Assembly session of November 9, 1684. This legalistic and conservative decision by the English Quakers squelched the beginnings of a true democracy in West New Jersey. In those days, such an action seemed perfectly reasonable to most people. 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