I, John Fenwick, late of Binfield, in the County of Berks, within the kingdom of England, Esq., late absolute lord and chief proprietor, by law and survivorship, of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, and now of Fenwick Colony, who doth hereby, as he hath in the hazarding of my life, appeal to the Almighty God, and dos now appeal to him who is my witness, that I never cheated any man nor went about to cheat, circumvent nor defraud Edward Byllynge. But he, Gauen Laurie, and others his creditors, and others his faction, hath most covetously and most un-x-tianly. dealt with me as I have often declared, and particularly in my just claims and remon-strance. Whom I doe freely forgive and heartily desire God, the searcher of all hearts, to make them sensible of it,"
~Friends Historical Association of Philedelphia
Links:
Infoplease: John Fenwick http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0818452.html Jersey History http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=0003 John Fenwick https://archive.org/details/sketchoflifechar02clem |