[734] Since this notice of the book was written a new edition of it has unexpectedly appeared, printed by Honeyman & Co., Somerville, New Jersey.
[735] Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. [First Series.] Edited by William A. Whitehead. Vol. I. 1631-1687. Newark: Daily Journal Establishment. 1880. 8º. Succeeding volumes cover a period later than that which now occupies us.
[736] Its full title was East Jersey under the Proprietary Governments; a Narrative of Events connected with the settlement and progress of the Province, until the Surrender of the Government to the Crown in 1702. Drawn principally from original sources. By William A. Whitehead. With an appendix containing The Model of the Government of East New Jersey in America. By George Scot, of Pitlochie. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1685. 8º. pp. 341. A second edition, revised and enlarged, making a volume of 486 pages, with a large number of fac-simile autographs, was published in 1875. [It was also published separate from the Collections. It contained a map of New Jersey, 1656, following Vanderdonck’s, and another of East Jersey, with the settlements of about 1682, marked by Mr. Whitehead.—Ed.]
[737] On the family of Sir Edmund Plowden, see Burke’s Commoners and Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, under “Plowden;” Baker’s Northamptonshire, under “Fermor;” the Visitation of Oxfordshire, published by the Harleian Society, and other works cited below, particularly Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, by Henry Foley, S. J. (London, 1875-1882), especially vol. iv. pp. 537 et seq.
[738] On this point, see Father Foley’s Records, just mentioned, and “A Missing Page of Catholic American History,—New Jersey colonized by Catholics,” by the Rev. R. L. Burtsell, D.D., in the Catholic World for November, 1880 (xxxii. 204 et seq., New York, 1881). Sir Edmund Plowden was not so stanch in his adherence to his faith as was his illustrious grandfather, for in 1635 he is said (temporarily, at least) to have counterfeited conformity in religion. See “Sir Edmund Plowden in the Fleet,” by the Rev. Edward D. Neill, in the Pennsylvania Magazine, v. 424 et seq., an article which “furnishes some facts relative to the career of Sir Edmund Plowden just before he left England for Virginia,” from “the calendars of British State papers during the reign of Charles the First.”
[739] See “Sir Edmund Plowden or Ployden,” by “Albion,” in Notes and Queries, iv. 319 et seq. (London, 1852), containing so many statements not elsewhere met with as to have provoked a series of pertinent queries from the late Sebastian F. Streeter, Secretary of the Maryland Historical Society, Ibid., ix. 301-2 (London, 1854), several of which, unfortunately, are still unanswered.
[740] The petitions and warrant mentioned, with a paper entitled “The Commodities of the Island called Manati ore Long Isle within the Continent of Virginia,” extracted from Strafford’s Letters and Despatches (i. 72) and Colonial Papers (vol. vi. nos. 60, 61), in the Public Record Office at London, are given in the N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1869, pp. 213 et seq. (New York, 1870). “Between this period and 1634,” according to “Albion,” “Sir Edmund was engaged in fulfilling the conditions of the warrant by carrying out the colonization by indentures, which were executed and enrolled in Dublin, and St. Mary’s, in Maryland, in America. In Dublin the parties were Viscount Muskerry, 100 planters; Lord Monson, 100 planters; Sir Thomas Denby, 100 planters; Captain Clayborne (of American notoriety), 50; Captain Balls; and amounting in all to 540 colonizers, beside others in Maryland, Virginia, and New England.” The same persons, with “Lord Sherrard” and “Mr. Heltonhead” and his brother, are named as lessees under the charter of New Albion, in Varlo’s Floating Ideas of Nature, ii. 13, hereafter spoken of.
[741] “Confirmed,” says “Albion,” “24th July, 1634.” The Latin original of this charter may be seen in the Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. vii. p. 50 et seq. (Philadelphia, 1883), with an Introductory Note by the writer, embracing Printz’s account of Plowden, extracts from the wills of Sir Edmund and Thomas Plowden, and a portion of Varlo’s pamphlet, hereafter referred to.
[742] So “Albion.”
[743] Printed in Rymer’s Fœdera, xix. 472 et seq., A.D. 1633, and reprinted in Ebenezer Hazard’s Historical Collections, i. 335 et seq., Philadelphia, 1792. For biographical accounts of Yong and Evelin, see Memoir and Letters of Captain W. Glanville Evelyn (Oxford, 1879), and The Evelyns in America (Ibid., 1881), both edited and annotated by G. D. Scull; cf. also “Robert Evelyn, Explorer of the Delaware,” by the Rev. E. D. Neill, in the Historical Magazine, second series, vol. iv. pp. 75, 76; and Neill’s Founders of Maryland, p. 54, note.