The subjugation & debasement of the state of New Jersey by the Erie Railway Management, under the direction of Jay Gould, James Fisk, Jr., William M. Tweed and Peter B. Sweeny, by the enactment laws, as prepared by them, to cover their usurpations and in their interest by the legislature of New Jersey, in the years of 1869, 1870 and 1871, with a review of those laws. With, also, the opinion of the supreme court of the state of New Jersey in the attempt to foil this usurpation and subjugation, and the adjudication of the court upon the claims of the Erie Railway Co. to the benefit of this legislationNew Jersey. Supreme Court. · First published 1872Open the Tome
We the subscribers proprietors and claiments in and of sundry townships, lately granted by Governor Wentworth, in the western parts of the hten supposed province of New-Hampshire, do hereby fully impower our trusty friends and fellow partners in those interests, Samuel Robinson, Esq; Ebenezer Cole, Jeremiah French, Benjamin Ferris, Samuel Hungerford, Ebenezer Fisk, John Brooks, John Sherrer, Samuel Keep, Partridge Thatcher, Abraham Thompson, Edward Burling, Benjamin Townsend, Tunis Wortman, Peter Clapper, John Burling, Joseph Hallet, Thomas Hicks, Esq; and David Matthews, Esq; for us and in our behalf and stead, to take and pursue all and every needful and proper measure and step, by application to His Majesty or otherwise, to obtain a full confirmation to us of said lands, on such reasonable terms as may be; hereby granting to them and to any and every three or more of them, full power of substitution. Witness our hands, in New-England, November, 1766Benning Wentworth · First published 1766Open the Tome
