LEADER 02266nam 2200337Ia 450 001 996397622403316 005 20200818211922.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000059419 035 $a(EEBO)2264225395 035 $a(OCoLC)ocm15048909e 035 $a(OCoLC)15048909 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000059419 100 $a19870109d1685 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 14$aThe model of the government of the province of East-New-Jersey in America$b[electronic resource] $eand encouragements for such as designs to be concerned there : published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place 210 $aEdinburgh $cPrinted by John Reid, and sold be [sic] Alexander Ogston ...$d1685 215 $a[6], 272 p 300 $aDedication signed: George Scot. 300 $aAttributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to Scot. 300 $a"It was, says the author, the outcome of a visit to London in 1679, when he enjoyed 'the opportunity of frequent converse with several substantial and judicious gentlemen concerned in the American plantations ...' The most valuable part of the work is a series of letters from the early settlers in New Jersey. 'The Model' was plagiarised by Samuel Smith in his 'History of New Jersey,' 1721, and is quoted by Bancroft; but James Grahame, author of the 'Rise and progress of the United States' (1827) first attached due importance to it ... Copies of original, which are very rare, are in the British Museum, the Edinburgh Advocate's Library, at Go?ttingen, in Harvard College Library, and in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society, and two other are in private hands in America. In some copies a passage (p. 37) recommending religious freedom as an inducement to emigration is modified"--DNB. 300 $aReproductions of originals in the Harvard University Library and Newberry Library. 330 $aeebo-0062 607 $aNew Jersey$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775 607 $aNew Jersey$xDescription and travel 700 $aScot$b George$fd. 1685.$01014785 801 0$bEAF 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996397622403316 996 $aThe model of the government of the province of East-New-Jersey in America$92366422 997 $aUNISA