Hackensack NJ / Bergen County 1765 Document Filed By John Smyth
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:2943128 | Modified Item: No |
| Year: 1765 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
John Smyth, one page 7.5 x 12 inch document in his hand and signed by him as Registrar to the Council of Proprietors. Perth Amboy; and William Provost, Clerk. Document Signed. Hackensack (spelled "Hackinsack"), 2nd March 1765
The document reads,
"This day received & filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Bergin, from the Commissions appointed for making a division of the Common Lands of the Township of Bergen the Field Book and Map of said division, also a c...ertificate of Messrs. Donaldson, Dunham, Berrien & CLark being qualified as Commissioners before Samuel Nevile Esq. Two certificates of Mr. Clinton & Mr. Spicer being qualified as commissioners before John Berrien Esq. Also two certificates of Mr. Jonathan Hampton, Mr. George Clinton being qualified as a surveyor before John Berrien Esq. Also a copy of the notive given by said Commissioners of their meeting to proceed in the beginnings of the Subdivision, of said Common Lands, William Provost Clerk
Perth Amboy 2nd March 1765 -- This day received and filed in the Secretary's office at this place, from the Commissioners appointed for making a Division of the Common Land of the Township of Bergen. The Field Book and Map of said Division -- John Smyth"
Reverse with "William Provost / Smythe / for this Field Book / ??? ??? Bergen Partition"
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John Smyth (1722–1786), a lawyer in Perth Amboy, served before the Revolution as treasurer of East Jersey, registrar to the council of proprietors, and clerk of the Middlesex County court of common pleas. On 10 July the New Jersey provincial congress ordered Brig. Gen. William Livingston to send Smyth to Trenton. Smyth was paroled a short time later, and when the British army occupied Perth Amboy in November 1776, he became a commissary for administering oaths of loyalty to the king. The British evacuation of Perth Amboy in June 1777 obliged Smyth to withdraw to New York City where he was appointed city treasurer. Smyth’s property in New Jersey was confiscated, and at the end of the war he moved to London. General Livingston mentions Smyth in a letter to Washington dated July 6, 1776. Livingston wrote
"I should be glad of some immediate directions what to do with the prisoners, as in the mean time I am obliged to keep them under Guard. I am acquainted with but one of them, John Smyth Esqr: who is a man of so great integrity that I think great faith might be given to his Word—If they are to remain in this province, I know of nothing that can be done with them so conveniently as to forward them on, to the Convention who can provide for their safe keeping. The internal Counties are now so destitute of Men, that I should think it dangerous to trust them there, nor do I know in whom in those parts to put sufficient confidence to entrust their safe keeping."
The document reads,
"This day received & filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Bergin, from the Commissions appointed for making a division of the Common Lands of the Township of Bergen the Field Book and Map of said division, also a c...ertificate of Messrs. Donaldson, Dunham, Berrien & CLark being qualified as Commissioners before Samuel Nevile Esq. Two certificates of Mr. Clinton & Mr. Spicer being qualified as commissioners before John Berrien Esq. Also two certificates of Mr. Jonathan Hampton, Mr. George Clinton being qualified as a surveyor before John Berrien Esq. Also a copy of the notive given by said Commissioners of their meeting to proceed in the beginnings of the Subdivision, of said Common Lands, William Provost Clerk
Perth Amboy 2nd March 1765 -- This day received and filed in the Secretary's office at this place, from the Commissioners appointed for making a Division of the Common Land of the Township of Bergen. The Field Book and Map of said Division -- John Smyth"
Reverse with "William Provost / Smythe / for this Field Book / ??? ??? Bergen Partition"
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John Smyth (1722–1786), a lawyer in Perth Amboy, served before the Revolution as treasurer of East Jersey, registrar to the council of proprietors, and clerk of the Middlesex County court of common pleas. On 10 July the New Jersey provincial congress ordered Brig. Gen. William Livingston to send Smyth to Trenton. Smyth was paroled a short time later, and when the British army occupied Perth Amboy in November 1776, he became a commissary for administering oaths of loyalty to the king. The British evacuation of Perth Amboy in June 1777 obliged Smyth to withdraw to New York City where he was appointed city treasurer. Smyth’s property in New Jersey was confiscated, and at the end of the war he moved to London. General Livingston mentions Smyth in a letter to Washington dated July 6, 1776. Livingston wrote
"I should be glad of some immediate directions what to do with the prisoners, as in the mean time I am obliged to keep them under Guard. I am acquainted with but one of them, John Smyth Esqr: who is a man of so great integrity that I think great faith might be given to his Word—If they are to remain in this province, I know of nothing that can be done with them so conveniently as to forward them on, to the Convention who can provide for their safe keeping. The internal Counties are now so destitute of Men, that I should think it dangerous to trust them there, nor do I know in whom in those parts to put sufficient confidence to entrust their safe keeping."
