West Jersey proprietors

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The West Jersey proprietors were a group of English Quaker landowners who controlled and administered the western portion of colonial New Jersey in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Quaker organization
colonial proprietors
landowning company
after sale of West Jersey to Quaker trustees
appliesToJurisdiction Province of New Jersey NERFINISHED
West Jersey NERFINISHED
appliesToTerritory Delaware River region of New Jersey NERFINISHED
western half of New Jersey
basedOn Concessions and Agreements of West New Jersey NERFINISHED
country Kingdom of England
dissolved 18th century
ethnicGroup English people
followedBy royal government of New Jersey NERFINISHED
foundedBy Edward Byllynge NERFINISHED
Gawen Lawrie NERFINISHED
Nicholas Lucas NERFINISHED
William Penn NERFINISHED
other English Quaker investors
hasCapital Burlington, West Jersey NERFINISHED
hasPart Board of Proprietors of West Jersey NERFINISHED
hasRole collection of quitrents
colonial governance
land administration
land distribution
town planning
inception 1676
late 17th century
legalForm proprietary company
location West Jersey NERFINISHED
colonial New Jersey
mainActivity issuing land titles
managing proprietary shares
surveying land
operatedInTimePeriod early 18th century
late 17th century
owned undivided proprietary shares in West Jersey
partOf proprietary colony system in British America
religiousAffiliation Quakerism
Religious Society of Friends NERFINISHED
sharesBorderWith East Jersey Proprietors NERFINISHED
significantEvent division of New Jersey into East and West Jersey
sale of Lord Berkeley’s share of New Jersey
surrender of government to the Crown in 1702
subjectOf colonial New Jersey land records
studies of Quaker colonization in America
usedLanguage English

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Burlington, Province of New Jersey foundedBy West Jersey proprietors