Manuscript Group 832, Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery and Answer, 1745 – 1752

832. ELIZABETHTOWN BILL IN CHANCERY
AND ANSWER

1745 – 1752, .3 vo1s.

Eighteenth-century manuscript copies of the original

Elizabethtown
Bill in Chancery and of the Answer, with an appen-

dix of
three maps; a copy of the published version of the Answer,

printed in
New York in 1752 byJames Parker (ca. 1714-70), with

an
eighteenth-century manuscript table of contents and notes.

The
Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery and the Answer concerned a

dispute
over land claimed by the Board of General Proprietors of

the
Eastern Division of New Jersey. The formal title of the Bill is:

<1 A
Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey. At the Suit of John, Earl
of>1

<1 Stair,
and Others, Proprietors of the Eastern-Division of New>1

<1 Jersey
against Benjamin Bond, and Some other Persons of>1

<1 Elizabeth-Town,
Distinguished by the Name of the Clinker Lot>1

<1 Right
Men…>1 It was published in 1747. The formal title of the

Answer is:
<1An Answer to a Bill in the Chancery ofNewJersey, at>1

<1 the
Suit ofJohn Earl of Stair, and Others, Commonly Called Pro->1

<1 prietors
of the Eastern Division of New jersey, against Benjamin>1

<1 Bond,
and Others Claiming under the Original Proprietors and>1

<1 Associates
ofElizabeth – Town . . .>1

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