[5th part], "And that the planting of the said province be the more speedily promoted." L&S 12, 20-23 (Feb.10,1664)
And that the Planting of the said Province be the more speedily promoted.
I.We do hereby grant unto all Persons who have already adventured to the said Province of New-Caesarea or New Jersey, or shall transport themselves, or Servants, before the first day of January, which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-five, these following Proportions, viz. to every FreeMan that shall go with the first Governor from the Port where he embarques, or shall meet him at the Rendezvous he appoints, for the Settlement of a Plantation there, arm'd with a good Musket, bore twelve Bullets to the Pound, with ten Pounds of Powder, and twenty Pounds of Bullets, with Bandiliers and Match convenient, and with six Months Provision for his own Person arriving there, One Hundred and Fifty Acres of Land English Measure; and for every able Servant that he shall carry with him, arm'd and provided as aforesaid, and arriving there, the like quantity of One Hundred and Fifty Acres of Land English Measure, And whoever shall send Servants at that Time shall for every able Man Servant he or she shall send, armed and provided as aforesaid and arrive there, the like quantity of One Hundred and Fifty Acres: And for every weaker Servant, or Slave, Male or Female, exceeding the Age of fourteen Years, which any one shall send or carry, arriving there, Seventy five Acres of Land: And for every Christian Servant, exceeding the Age aforesaid, after the Expiration of their Time of Service Seventy five Acres of Land for their own use.
II. ITEM. To every Master or Mistres that shall go before the first day of January which shall be in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-five; One Hundred and Twenty Acres of Land. And for every able Man Servant, that he or she shall carry or send, arm'd and provided as aforesaid, and arriving within the Time aforesaid, the like quantity of One Hundred and Twenty Acres of Land: And for every weaker Servant or Slave, Male or Female, exceeding the Age of fourteen Years, arriving there, Sixty Acres of Land: and to every Christian Servant to their owne use and behoof Sixty Acres of Land.
III. ITEM. To every free Man and free Woman that shall arrive in the said Province, arm'd and provided as aforesaid, within the second Year, from the first Day of January 1665 to the first Day of January One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty six, with an intention to plant, Ninety Acres of Land English Measure: And for every Man Servant that he or sh shall carry or send, armed and provided as aforesaid, Ninety Acres of Land of like Measure.
IV. ITEM. For every weaker Servant or Slave, aged as aforesaid, that shall be so carried or sent thither within the second Year, as aforesaid, Forty five Acres of Land of like Measure: And to every Christian Servant that shall arrive the second Year, Forty five Acres of Land of like Measure, after the Expiration of his or their Time of Service, for their own use and behoof.
V. ITEM. To every free Man and free Woman, armed and provided as aforesaid, that shall go and arrive with an intention to plant, within the third Year from January 1666 to January 1667, armed and provided as aforesaid, Threescore Acres of Land of like Measure: And for every able Man Servant, that he or they shall carry or send within the said Time, armed and provided as aforesaid, the like quantity of Threescore Acres of Land. And for every weaker Servant or Slave, aged as aforesaid, that he or they shall carry or send within the third Year, thirty Acres of Land: And to every Christian Servant so carried or sent in the third Year, thirty Acres of Land of like Measure, after the expiration of their Time of Service. All which Land, and all other that shall be possessed in the said Province, are to be held on the same Terms and Conditions as is before mentioned, and as hereafter in the following Paragraphs is more at large express'd. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that the before mentioned Land and all other whatsoever, that shall be taken up and so settled in the said Province, shall afterward from Time to Time for the space of thirteen Years from the date hereof, be held upon the conditions aforesaid, continuing one able Man Servant or two such weaker Servants as aforesaid, on every Hundred Acres a Master or Mistres shall possess, besides what was granted for his or her own Person: In failure of which upon other disposure to the present Occupant, or his Assigns, there shall be three Years given to such for their compleating the said number of Persons, or for their sale or dispositions of such part of their Lands as are not so People'd within which Time of three Years. If any such Person holding any Land shall fail by himself his Agents, Executors or Assigns, or some other way to provide such number of Persons, unles the general Assembly shall without respect to poverty, Judge it was impossible for the party so failing, to keep or procure his or her number of Servants to be provided as aforesaid; in such case we the Lords to have Power of disposing of so much of such Land as shall not be planted with its due number of Persons as aforesaid, to some other that will plant the same. PROVIDED ALWAYS, That no person arriving in the said Province, with Purpose to settle (they being Subjects or naturalized as aforesaid) be denied a grant of such Proportions of Land as at the Time of their arrival that are due to themselves or Servants, by Concession from us as aforesaid; but have full Licence to take up and settle the same, in such order and manner as is granted or prescrib'd. All Lands (notwithstanding the Powers in the Assembly aforesaid) shall be taken up by Warrant from the Governor, and confirm'd by the Governor and Council, under a Seal to be provided for that purpose, in such order and method as shall be set down in this Declaration, and more at large in the Instruction to the Governors and Council.