New Jersey Surrender to Queen (April 17, 1709) Queen's Acceptance of Surrender:
<This day the several Proprietors of East and West New Jersey in America, did in person present a deed of surrender by them executed under their hands and seals, to her Majesty in Council...
Be it remembered, that on the tenth day of September 1748, John Waddell of the city of New York, merchant, appeared before Robert Hunter Morris, Esq; Chief Justice of the Province of flew Jersey, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, on his oath declared, that the name of John Waddell, signed to the preceding certificate of the 7th of October, 1747, is the proper hand writing of the declarant, and that the matter contained in the said certificate is true.> 1709NJ001
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Endnotes:
1709NJ001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Jersey, April 17, 1709, Queen's Acceptance of Surrender.