THE DEAL:

[ AT THE END ] " Witness ourself at Westminster,  [ March 12, 1664 ] "


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      Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Know that we, for divers good causes and considerations, us thereunto moving, have, 
of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, given and granted, and by
these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto our dearest brother
James, Duke of York, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the main land of New England,
beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to
New Scotland, in America; and from thence extending along the sea coast unto a certain 
place called Pemaquine or Pemaquid, and so up the river thereof to the farthest head of 
the same as it tendeth northward; and extending from the river of Kenebeque, and so upwards
 by the shortest course to the river Canada, northward. 
      And also, all that island or islands, commonly called by the several name or names of 
Mattowaks or Long Island, situate, lying, and being towards the west of Cape Codd and
the Narrow Higansetts, abuuting upon the main land between the two rivers, there called or 
known by the several names of Connecticutt and Hudson's river; together also with said 
river called Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of the Connecticutt river to 
the east side of Delaware bay.
      And also all those several islands called or known by the name of  [Martin's OR Martha's] 
Vineyard and Nantokes or otherwise Nantokett; together with all the lands, islands, soiles, 
rivers, harbours, mines, minerals, quarries, woods, marshes, waters, lakes, fishings, 
hawkings, huntings, and fowlings; and all the other royalties, profits, commodities, and 
hereditaments to said several islands, lands, and premises belonging and appertaining 
with their and every of their appurtenances; 
and all our estate, title, interest, benefit, advantage, claim, and demand of, in or to the 
said lands and premises, or any part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, 
remainder and remainders; together with the yearly and other of the rents, revenues, 
and profits of all and singular the said 
premises, and of every  part and parcel thereof; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular......


    ....to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich 
in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capitie, nor by 
knight service yielding and rendering..."

  ...and the said James Duke of York, doth for himself, his heirs and assigns, 
 covenant and promise to yield and render unto our heirs and successors,
 of and for the same and every Year, forty beaver skins when they shall be demanded, 
or within ninety days after.

        " THIS INDENTURE made the four and twentieth day of June, in the sixteenth year 
of the reign of our sovereign Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God King of 
England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Domini 1664. 
      Between his Royal Highness, James, Duke of York, and Albany, Earl of Ulster, 
Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, Constable of Dover Castle, 
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Governor of Portsmouth, of the one part:
      John, Lord Berkeley, Baron of Stratton, and one of His Majesty's most 
Honourable Privy Council, and Sir George Carteret of Saltrum, in the County of Devon, 
Knight, and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council of the other part: 
Whereas his said Majesty King Charles the Second,  by hjs Letters Patents under
 the Great Seal of England, .... 
      ......did give and grant unto his said Royal Highness James, Duke of York 
 [ the grant of New England, detailled above ] ...
      ......doth grant, bargain, sell, release, and confirm unto the said John, Lord Berkeley 
and Sir George Carteret, their heirs and assigns forever, all that tract of land adjacent to 
New England, and lying and being to the westward of Long Island and Manhattens Island, 
and bounded on the east, part by the main sea [ see Coastal NJ ! ] , and part by 
Hudson's river, and hath upon the west, Delaware bay or river [ see Delaware Bay Counties! ]
 and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May at the mouth of Delaware bay; 
and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said bay or river of Delaware, 
which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude, and crosseth over thence
 in a straight line to Hudson's river in forty-one degrees of latitude; which said tract 
of land is hereafter to be called by the name or names of New Caeserea or New Jersey...."

( This is just as accurate a geographical description of New Jersey today as 
it was over 300 years ago ( in June 1664 ). )