April 12, 2024
1756 COLONIAL BURLINGTON NEW JERSEY GOV. JONATHAN BELCHER MANUSCRIPT SLAVERY
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Will & Jonathan Belcher DocumentBurlington, New JerseySlavery1756Two 1756 documents attached at bottom, with black wax stamps. The larger fully handwritten document is a "true copy from the original", on vellum, a will of John Warren. The smaller printed and handwritten paper is on old laid paper, speaks of the death of John Warren in 1756 and at top is written: By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq. Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America Chancellor & Vice Admiral in the Same ...Larger parchment is about 17 x 12 inches. Will gives 100 acres of land to son (Gamliel, and possibly Samuel as well) and land to his daughters (Rebekah and Mary it seems) and speaks of his wife as well, and slaves are mentioned. Samuel Farnsworth is mentioned as well.The Jonathan Belcher bit at top is quite historic and Belcher (governor of New Jersey as well as Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and a founder of Princeton University as well) died soon after, in 1757."The council of West Jersey Proprietors purchased roughly 30 miles (48 km)of riverfront land in 1676 from theLenape Indians. Burlington was founded on part of that land by English settlers in 1677, and served as the capital of the province until 1702, whenWest Jersey and East Jersey were combined into a
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