EARLY HISTORY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. 



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of tlie roads and Constable for Great Egg Harbor, confirms the 

 opinion advanced by Mickle (page 38) that the County of Glouces- 

 ter did not originally reach to the ocean, and that the inhabitants 

 of the seaboard, or Great Egg Harbor, were under the jurisdiction 

 of Cape May. The act of 1694, however, made them dependent 

 upon Gloucester, and that of 1710 extended the County of Glouces- 

 ter to the ocean. A passage from Oldmixon, 1708, heretofore 

 quoted, that Cape May County extended to Little Egg Harbor at 

 that time, is evidently incorrect. 



The following named persons purchased of the Agents of Dr. Cox 

 and the West Jersey Society, mostly .previous to 1696, some few as 

 e irly as 1689, the number of acres attached to their respective names, 

 viz : — * 



Christopher Leamyeng, 204 



William Jacoks, 340 



Abigail Pine, 200 



Humphrey Hughes, 206 



Samuel Matthews, 175 



Jonathan Osborne, 110 



Nathaniel Short, 200 



Caesar Hoskins 250 



Shamgar Hand, 700 



Joseph Weldon, (Whilldin), 150 



Joseph Houlding 200 



Dorothy Hewit 340 



Thomas Hand 400 



John Taylor 220 



John Curwihh, 55 



John Shaw, 2 surveys 315 



Timothy Brandreth, .110 



John Crawford, 380 



Ezekiel Eldridge 90 



Oliver Russel 170 



Samuel Crowell, - 226 



John Carman, 250 



Thomas Gandy,: 50 



Caleb Carman '. 250 



* Trenton & Cape May Records. 



Acres. Acres. 



William Mason 150 



Henry Stites 200 



Cornelius Skellinks, 134 



John Richardson, 124 



Arthur Cresse, 350 



Peter Causon, 400 



John Causon, 300 



John Townsend, 640 



Wm. Golden & Rem Garretson, ..1016 



William Johnson, 436 



John Page, 125 



John Parsons 315 



William Smith 130 



George Taylor 175 



Dennis- Lynch, 300 



William Whitlock 500 



Jacob Spicer, 2 surveys 1000 



Benjamin Godfrey, 210 



Randal Hewit 140 



Elizabeth Carman, 300 



John Reeves, 100 



Benjamin Hand, 373 



James Stanfield 100 



