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Detailed manuscript survey of land owned by John Biddle of Philadelphia in Greenwich Township, in Morris (now Warren) County, New Jersey and surveyed by order of James Alexander in June 1752.
The land in question is locate in Greenwich, which was then a part of Morris County, following its formation in January 1750. The instruction given by James Alexander, Surveyor General of the Province of New Jersey, to deputy surveyor Edmund Beakes, states as follows:
Pursuant to thy order to me Dated ye 10th June 1752 Requireing (sic) me to Survye for John Biddle of Philadelphia One Thousand Acres of Land & in obdedience thereunto I have Survey'd for ye said John Biddle One Tract of Land in Greenige (sic) in Morrice (sic) County, in part of ye said Order . . . .
It is possible that this is the same land offered or sale the following year in an advertisement in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec. 20, 1753
To be sold by publick venue, on Thursday the 10th of January next, at the house of John Biddle, the sign of the Indian King, in Market-street, Philadelphia, A tract of land in Morris County, in the western division of New-Jersey, late the property of William Biddle, containing 1250 acres, with the usual allowance, to be put up in lour lots, containing 312 acres each; a plan of which may be seen by applying to Samuel Smith, William Lawrence or Joshua Fisher in Philadelphia, who are impowered to sell the same, and make an indisputable title. Samuel Smith, William Lawrence, Joshua Fisher
Edmund Beakes was a Deputy Surveyor in the Colony of New Jersey, working under the direction ofJames Alexander, Surveyor General (and later Governor) of New Jersey in middle of the 18th Century.
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