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1682. Budd's — "A Brief account of the Province of East 

 Jersey in America. A. D. 1682." 



Speaking of early advantages and disadvantages : "they must have their 

 winter as well as summer ; they must labor before they reap — and till their 

 plantations be cleared (in summer time) they must expect (as in all these 

 countries) the musketos, flies, gnats and such like, may in hot and fair 

 weather give some disturbance where people provide not against them, which 

 as land is cleared are less troublesome." 



A letter from Thos. Rudyard, Deputy Governor New East Jersey, 

 to a friend at London, dated East Jersey, the 30th of 

 the third month called May, 1683 : 



"That journey by land gave me some view of all the Provinces, and made 

 me more considerably to estimate this of East Jersey, having some con- 

 veniences esteemed by me, which the others are not so plentifully furnished 

 withal; viz. fresh and salt meadows which are very valuable and no man 

 here will take up a Tract of Land without them, being the support of their 

 flocks in Winter, which other parts must supplie by store and taking more 

 care for English Grass — 



"But know, where salt marshes are not there is no musketos, and that 

 manner of Land and more health, and this was often answered me when I 

 have been making comparison." 



Letter of James Johnson of Spotswood, March 9, 1684, from 

 his plantation at the Blew Hills in East Jersey in 

 America : 



"There is a Flee by the Salt marshes most troublesome in summer — but 

 it is not in the uplands." 



Budd's Pennsylvania & New Jersey, 1685 : 



"I haye mentioned before that there is a sort of Jroublesome Flies call'd 

 Musketoes — (much like the Gnats in England) in the lower parts of the 

 country where the great marshes are, but in the upper parts of the Country 

 seldom one is seen." 



Again 1685. Budd — Good Order Established in Pa. and N. J. 

 in America : 



"The Lands from the Capes to about six miles above New Castle (which 

 is by estimation ninety miles) is for the most part very rich, there being- 

 very many navigable Creeks on both sides of the River, and on the River 

 and Creeks are great quantities of rich fat Marsh Land, which causeth those 

 parts to some fresh people to be somewhat unhealthful in the latter part of 

 the summer, at which time some of them have Agues : 



"Also in and near these marshes, are small Flies, called Musketoes, which 

 are troublesome to such people as are not used to them. But were those 

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