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[NEW JERSEY, Colony]. List of the Names of all the Adventurers in the General Joynt-Stock and Lands of the Society of Merchants of London, Proprietors of West New Jersey in America... [London: no printer], 1697.
2o broadside (408 x 286 mm). Bold heading in large display types. Original deckle edges of the sheet preserved. (Tiny holes at 3 fold intersections, a few ink spots.) Provenance: Contemporary ink notations (see below), verso docketed "List proprietors."
AN UNRECORDED BROADSIDE ROSTER OF THE THE WEST NEW-JERSEY "ADVENTURERS"
The so-called "Adventurers" were members in a joint-stock company; essentially, investors in the new colony. To establish and maintain it, considerable capital was required to cover the costs of recruiting settlers, equipping them with tools and provisions and transporting them to the New World. Similar joint-stock ventures had been created in the early seventeenth-century in the cases of the Plymouth and the Virginia companies. This exceedingly rare broadside--probably printed solely for the use of the members--presents, in three columns, the names of 69 Adventurers, plus (at bottom) 14 names representing the Committee-Men, Treasurer, Vice President and President (Sir Thomas Lane). Interestingly, this copy has manuscript notations, almost certainly by one of the company: to the right of each man's name he has carefully noted how many shares are owned; in the margins are what appear to be tallies. Not in Alden & Landis, OCLC, Sabin, or any other standard source.
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AN UNRECORDED BROADSIDE ROSTER OF THE THE WEST NEW-JERSEY "ADVENTURERS"
The so-called "Adventurers" were members in a joint-stock company; essentially, investors in the new colony. To establish and maintain it, considerable capital was required to cover the costs of recruiting settlers, equipping them with tools and provisions and transporting them to the New World. Similar joint-stock ventures had been created in the early seventeenth-century in the cases of the Plymouth and the Virginia companies. This exceedingly rare broadside--probably printed solely for the use of the members--presents, in three columns, the names of 69 Adventurers, plus (at bottom) 14 names representing the Committee-Men, Treasurer, Vice President and President (Sir Thomas Lane). Interestingly, this copy has manuscript notations, almost certainly by one of the company: to the right of each man's name he has carefully noted how many shares are owned; in the margins are what appear to be tallies. Not in Alden & Landis, OCLC, Sabin, or any other standard source.