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Author Scot, George, -1685.
Title The model of the government of the province of East-New-Jersey in America : and encouragements for such as designs to be concerned there : published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place.
Publication Info Edinburgh : Printed by John Reid, and sold be [sic] Alexander Ogston ..., 1685.


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Descript [6], 272 p.
Note Dedication signed: George Scot.
Attributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to Scot.
"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 Göttingen, 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.
Reproductions of originals in the Harvard University Library and Newberry Library.
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Author Scot, George, -1685.
Series Early English books online.
Subject New Jersey -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
New Jersey -- Description and travel.
Descript [6], 272 p.
Note Dedication signed: George Scot.
Attributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to Scot.
"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 Göttingen, 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.
Reproductions of originals in the Harvard University Library and Newberry Library.
Author Scot, George, -1685.
Series Early English books online.
Subject New Jersey -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
New Jersey -- Description and travel.

Subject New Jersey -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
New Jersey -- Description and travel.
Descript [6], 272 p.
Note Dedication signed: George Scot.
Attributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to Scot.
"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 Göttingen, 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.
Reproductions of originals in the Harvard University Library and Newberry Library.
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