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	Lord John Berkeley: Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen: The Twickenham Museum
		John Berkeley was born and baptised at Hanworth, in Middlesex the 5th son of Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton in Somerset, where the family lived.
		On his return to England at the Restoration he was placed on the staff of the Admiralty, appointed Lord President of Connaught for life, a Privy Councillor, a Master of the Ordnance, a member of the Committee of Tangier and, in 1670, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
		John Berkeley's sons Charles, John and William succeeded to the Barony in turn after which the title lapsed.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=86 (695 words)

	John, Lord Berkeley
		Sir John, Lord Berkeley (baptised February 1, 1606/7 - August 28, 1678), fifth and youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley, was born in 1607.
		On May 19, 1658 he was raised to the Peerage, as Baron Berkeley of Statton, in the county of Somerset.
		The intimate relations existing between Berkeley and King Charles and the Duke of York, as shown in Pepys' illustrative diary, fully account for the granting to him an interest in New Jersey, as well as in Carolina, which he had previously received.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John,_Lord_Berkeley.html (306 words)

	Annals from 1640 to 1704.
		John lord Roberts baron of Truro landed at Howth, was met at Young's castle by the lord mayor, recorder, aldermen and commons, after Mr.
		That the election of a lord mayor, sheriffs and treasurer of the city (which formerly was in the representatives of the people at large) was now veiled in the lord mayor and aldermen, eight of whom were to be present at the election.
		Yet this rule does not debar the lord mayor, aldermen and common-council of their former power of changing the numbers of their common-council, and of distributing the same among other corporations, so as the whole number exceed not 96, and they be presented and elected as aforesaid.
	www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/Harris/chapter11b.htm (4914 words)

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		This plantation, with that of John Haines, before noticed, and the next on the road, were owned by William H. Brown and Conrad Poole, and were formerly owned by John Tatum Sr., on which he kept a large flock of merino sheep in the days of their popularity.
		John Clark dying intestate, the whole of said lands descended to his eldest son, John Clark Jr., of Hackney, in the county of Middlesex, England, gentleman, who by deed dated the 26th and 27th days of July, 1702, conveys his whole right in said lands to Benjamin Alford, of New England, in America.
		John Groff purchased 5 acres of meadow, adjoining on Repaupo Creek, of Isaac Steelman, Dec. 14, 1787.
	www.nj.searchroots.com /EG/History_Eastgreenwich_NJ.txt (8276 words)

	Historical Society of Haddonfield - Bulletin Article
		John and Elizabeth Haddon were married in her home on a raw, snowy, blustery day on December 1, 1702.
		John and Elizabeth traveled again to England and while there made plans with her father and mother to build them a home next to theirs.
		John Estaugh was appointed the sole New World agent and his father-in-law, John Haddon, planned to come to the New World to help him after he had resolved problems associated with his business.
	www.historicalsocietyofhaddonfield.org /bulletin_article_09_05.htm (3054 words)

	AHA Information: William E. Dodd Presidential Address (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir William Berkeley, most eminent of all the plantation governors, was in London from the early summer of 1661 till the autumn of 1662, instructed and highly paid by his people to resist all commercial restraints upon the tobacco planters.
		During the same years, the great lords proprietors were trying to apply their landgrave system in Carolina; but every report from pioneers on the Albemarle Sound and the Cape Fear River warned that no success was possible except upon the principle of homesteads for all, the rights of self-government, and religious freedom.
		John Locke insisted that such concessions must be granted, and Clarendon, who denied all religious freedom in England, agreed that Quakers, Baptists, and New England Puritans might have all they asked if they would buy lands and pay quitrents in their new domain.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/wedodd.htm (5178 words)

	John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – August 28, 1678) was the fifth and youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley.
		William Berkeley was co-proprietor of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674.
		In 1665, Berkeley was one of the drafters of the Concession and Agreement, a document that provided freedom of religion in the colony of New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Berkeley,_1st_Baron_Berkeley_of_Stratton (481 words)

	CHAPTER 1
		The 8 Lords received what was known as a “Quit Rent”.My great great grandfather John McQueen received, a certain thing called a‘Shilling” or some other form of goods, and service for the lease of land in“Fee Simple” to another person.
		My mother, and John Lord, looked dead on eachother, she looked more like she could have been his biological child ratherthan my grandpa.
		John told Djimon, that itwould take a miracle to have the Supreme Court overturn the verdict made by alower trial court.
	www2.xlibris.com /Bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=16107 (13043 words)

	The North Carolina Militia
		By 1632 Henry Lord Maltravers claimed the area as the Province of Carolana under an alleged grant from Heath and by the Harvey Patent issued by the governor of Virginia, John Harvey.
		The legislature reported to Lord Carteret in London that as a result of that embarrassment, "we obtained a law that every person between 16 and 60 years of age able to carry arms" be armed at his own expense.
		On 24 April 1776 the legislature ordered Ransom, Joseph John Williams and Christopher Dudley to bring all of the state's energies to bear in the manufacture of muskets in conformity with the direction of Congress and state law, that is, to be made with 44 inch barrels and 18 inch bayonets.
	www.kingsownpatriots.org /NCM.html (8200 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Chaplain to William Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele, 1637- c.1640.
		By 1641 until 1644 Chaplain to Lord George Berkeley.
		John Wilkins, On the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion, ed.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/wilkins.html (671 words)

	New Jersey - MSN Encarta
		Nevertheless, New Jersey was still sparsely settled in 1664, when Charles II of England granted all the territory between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers to his brother, James, Duke of York (later King James II).
		James ousted the Dutch and assigned New Jersey to two close friends, Sir George Carteret and John, Lord Berkeley, who named it after the island of Jersey in the English Channel.
		English settlers resisted the proprietors’ authority, however, and in 1674 Berkeley sold his half interest to a consortium of Quakers.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559873_3/New_Jersey.html (756 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Berkeley, Sir John (1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton)
		Raised to the peerage in 1658, he was appointed lord president of Connacht for life in 1661 and one of the proprietors of New Jersey in 1664.
		William Berkeley (1605-77) was not mentioned in the diary, but his life may shed some light on the times and on his older brother.
		Berkeley Township, on the coast of New Jersey about half way between New York harbor and Atlantic City, was named after John Berkeley in 1875.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/1055.php (1184 words)

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		My Lord and many others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bed- chamber, which he was much pleased with.
		My Lord told me clearly his thoughts that the King would carry it, and that he did not think himself very happy that he was now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he thought he might do his country some service in keeping things quiet.
		Sir John Lenthall moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/pepys10.txt (19461 words)

	South Jersey Heritage - R. Craig Koedel: Chapter 2: From Quaker Commonwealth to Crown Colony
		When Lord Berkeley’s financial entanglements rendered him insolvent, he was eager to forego the long-term profits his American holdings could give him in exchange for ready cash.
		The first of these matters was disposed of by the Quintipartite Deed of July 1, 1676, by which Carteret, Byllynge, and the three trustees agreed that the boundary line should run north by west from the mouth of the Little Egg Harbor River (the Mullica) to the uppermost tip of the province.
		Although his by right of purchase from Lord Berkeley and allocation from Byllynge’s trustees, Fenwick nevertheless consolidated his claim by buying from the Indians an area comprising all of today’s Salem and Cumberland Counties.
	westjersey.org /sjh/sjh_chap_2.htm (2522 words)

	Against the Grain Press - Knowledge is Freedom
		When you read about this government that the lords were to set up, it sounds very familiar to the government constituted in the 1787 Constitution, with a national Congress and mirror state and local governments.
		(The lord, their heirs and successors were given leave to rent lands to whom they chose, by a lessor title, fee simple and fee tail.
		The lords, their heirs and successors and tenants and inhabitants were declared sworn subjects to the Crown of England.
	www.atgpress.com /kifap/know0009.htm (6447 words)

	Welcome to Salem, New Jersey
		In 1664, the Duke of York conveyed to John, Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, the province of New Jersey.
		John Fenwick was born in Northumberland county at Stanton Manor, in England, in the year 1618.
		John Fenwick, after his arrival in Salem, issued a proclamation granting civil and religious liberty to all persons who should settle within his province.
	www.salemcitynj.com /history.html (1489 words)

	Hotten's Original List of persons of quality, emigrants, religeous exiles, political rebels, etc. who went from Great ...
		Berkeley, Sir William Moreton, and John Trethewey, all that entire tract, territory, or parcel of land in America, and bounded by and within the head of the rivers Tappahanocke, alias Rappahanocke, and Quiriough or Patawomack rivers, to them and their heirs.
		William, Earl of Craven, John, Lord Berkeley, Anthony, Lord Ashley, Sir George Carteret, Sir Peter Colliton, andc., all those Islands called the Bahama Islands or the Islands of Lucayos, lying in the degrees of 22 to 27, and all ports, havens, creeks, andc., to their heirs and assigns.
		John Strode, Charles Tucker, and Henry Daniel, Esquires, as to the Imposts and Customs due to the King, of four and a half per cent.
	www.allcensus.com /original_lists_161.htm (1881 words)

	North Carolina Governors
		North Carolina's history as an organized governing system led by a governor may be viewed in five chronological stages: the Virginia colony, the southern plantation, the Lords Proprietors, the Royal colony, and the state of North Carolina.
		In 1729 seven of the eight Lord Proprietors sold their colonial holdings in Carolina to the Crown.
		The lone Proprietor was John Carteret, Earl Granville, who retained the Granville Tract in North Carolina without governing control until the American Revolution.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/stgovt/governor.htm (958 words)

	History - Sourlands Preserve-Somerset - NJ Trails Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James then proceeded to give the land between the Hudson and the Delaware to two close friends: John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
		John, Lord Berkeley received lands looking toward the Delaware River, then called the province of West Jersey; while Sir George Carteret received the lands that looked to New York, then called province of East Jersey.
		A boundary line was agreed to in 1676 and eventually finalized in 1687 using surveys of George Keith.
	www.njtrails.org /history.php?TrailID=114 (539 words)

	Trenton Historical Society, New Jersey
		The deed of release from the Duke of York to John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret followed the next day, and for the sake of informing the readers of the titles assumed by the Duke of York, and recited concerning Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, the commencement of that deed is here given
		Blackstone, because the usual residence of the owner, seems to have been a district of ground, held by lords or great personages, who kept in their own hands so much land as was necessary for the use of their families and servants.
		The Rev. John Talbot, a minister of the Church of England, residing in Burlington, in 1703 wrote the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel:
	trentonhistory.org /His/colonial.htm (10556 words)

	ENGLISH COLONIZATION
		Lord Baltimore returned to England in May 1684 to settle boundary disputes with Virginia and with Penn's colony to the north and to answer charges that he favored Roman Catholics and interfered with royal customs collectors.
		John Oldham and Richard Vines settled on the Southside of the Saco River in 1623-24.
		A punitive expedition in Aug 1636, led by John Endecott of Massachusetts, against the Pequots was in reprisal for the murder of a New England trader John Oldham.
	www.freeuniv.com /lect/rankin/Unit1B.htm (15733 words)

	Greater Long Branch Chamber of Commerce, History, New Jersey, NJ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although some of the land was settled by the Dutch, the territory known as the New Netherlands was ceded to Charles II of England.
		The first of the group to settle in Long Branch in 1668 were John Slocum, Eliakim Wardell, Joseph and Peter Parker and a man named Hulett.
		John Slocum was victor, and the following day he paced off lands which now comprise Long Branch and several other nearby towns.
	www.longbranchchamber.org /historynew.htm (1049 words)

	gregoryAPUSH's Xanga Site
		Nathaniel Bacon was the leader of the uprising protesting Governor Berkeley’s neglect of calls for a stronger military presence in the frontier to end problems caused by Indian hostility.
		Lord Baltimore: Founder of Maryland who, in 1632, received a charter from King Charles I for a tract of land to the northeast of the colony of Virginia.
		John Locke, Fundamental Constitution: Intricate constitution written by Cooper and John Locke in 1670, meant to stabilize the government of Carolina by basing the social rank on one’s "landed wealth." It formed the three orders of nobility with the proprietors at the top, the caciques in the middle, and the landgraves at the bottom.
	www.xanga.com /gregoryAPUSH (9555 words)

	LORD JOHN BERKELEY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Duke of York's Release to John Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, 24th of June, 1664 (1) THIS INDENTURE made the four and twentieth day of June, in the sixteenth year of the reign of our...
		John Lord Scrope of Castle Bolton, Yorkshire, fought for Yorkists at Battle of Stoke (1487)
		Berkeley, John de b.1345 - Of, Coberley, Gloucestershire, England Berkeley, Juliana Mrs de m.1364...
	www.preiswerte-krankenversicherungen.de /1183 (303 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Local News - The settlement of the Carolinas 03/07/00
		Among his accomplishments was establishment of the claim of all of North America made by both John and Sebastien Cabot, a father and son team from Italy, but sailing for England.
		Included were Edward, earl of Clarendon, who served as Charles' chief of staff; George, duke of Albemarle; William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley (later earl of Shaftsbury); Sir George Carteret; Sir William Berkeley; and Sir John Colleton.
		Meanwhile, the lords proprietors were still too busy parceling out land to take official notice of Hilton's comments.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/030700/LOClittlejohn.shtml (933 words)

	Berkeley, John, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton — Infoplease.com
		Berkeley, John, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, 1602–78, English army officer and courtier.
		Raised to the peerage in 1658, he was appointed lord president of Connacht for life in 1661 and one of the proprietors of
		From 1670 to 1672 he was lord lieutenant of Ireland.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0807177.html (164 words)

	A New Voyage to Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Other accounts differ as to John Lawson's exact fate, and no one is sure how he died.
		When he went to England to have his book published, he was "called upon by the Lord Proprietors to assist DeGraffenreid" who was trying to settle a colony of Palatines in North Carolina.
		After the course of events which included John Lawson's death and a massacre of these colonists, they had a falling out, and that plan never came off.
	www.tradingford.com /lawson/nvycr10e.html (5542 words)

	South Carolina State Library Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berkeley County was named for two of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, Lord John Berkeley (d.
		In 1769 this area became part of Charleston District, and it did not become a separate county again until 1882.
		Luce and his wife, writer and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987), are buried at Mepkin, which is now a Trappist monastery.
	www.state.sc.us /scsl/berk.html (193 words)

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