whether in the Proprietary Governments or elsewhere, and what we have done thereupon. Presented to the House of Commons April 24, 1701.1

"Pennsylvania.

"The complaints against Mr. Markham, Lieut-Gov. of Pennsylvania for Harbouring and protecting Pirates, and against the whole Government of that Colony, for their opposition to the court of Admiralty, erected there as in other places pursuant to the late Act of Parliament for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in the Plantation Trade, have been very great.2

"But directions having been given by their Excellencies the Lords Justices to Mr Penn3 upon his going thither, for the reforming of those Disorders. We received afterwards an account from Col. Quary (Judge of her Majesty's Admiralty Court there) as well as from Mr. Penn himself, that he had made several advances in what had been required from him. Nevertheless we have of late again received complaints from Col. Quary, that Mr Penn, by granting commissions to all the Sheriffs of Counties to be Water Bayliffs, had broke into the Admiralty Jurisdiction and invaded the Powers thereof; and by denying the Admiralty any right of jurisdiction with in the Body of the Province, had in effect taken it wholly away. We have likewise had fresh information from Col. Quary of private Trade between Pennsylvania and Curassaw (a Dutch Plantation) carryed on chiefly by Scotchmen, who clandestinely and illegally export Tobacco, and Import such great quanties of Iron, Linnen, Wine, and other European Commodities, that they are sold there as cheap as in England. As to Pirates: Several per

1 Plantations General, B. 448, 450-452. Board of Trade Journals, E. 437, 445, F. 1, 3. Commons Journal, Vol. XIII. 502-505. (Ed. 1803.)

2 Proprieties, B. 20, 66.

4

* Ibid, 224, 289, 271.

6
• Ibid, 427.

3

Ibid., B. 82, 83, 85. 5 Ibid, 422.

sons who have themselves been formerly suspected of Piracy, are settled near the Capes of Delaware River. These persons when Kid was there received his Boats, and supplied him. They went on Board him constantly, and took on shore quantities of East India Goods. Mr Penn has imprisoned these men, and seized some of the Goods, which (as he informs us) shall be sent over.

"As to the Propriety and Charter Governments in General; no Governour whereof has qualified himself according to the late Act of Parliament (except the Gov. of the Bahama Islands for whose good Behaviour Security has been refused to be given by the Proprietors.) Their Independency making it absolutely necessary, that some speedy and effectual care be taken to render them more subservient and useful to this Kingdom; We humbly referr ourselves to our Report Dated the 27th March last,2 Wherein we humbly represented to the Honourable House, That the Charters of the several Proprietors, and Others Intitling them to absolute Government be reassumed to the Crown, and these Colonies put into the same State and Dependency as those of her Majesty's other Plantations, without prejudice to any man's freehold or property; which we conceive can not otherwise be well effected, than by the Legislative Power of this Kingdom."

Extracts from a Letter of the Board of Trade to the Queen, April 17, 1702.3

In regard to the General Defence of the Plantations, they write:

"And as your Majesty may please to observe by what we have before represented that the propriety Governments are

1 Proprieties, B. 271, 224, 289.

2 Trade, B. 173.

3 Plantations General, C. 143, 144.

in a State wholy defenceless, and that the Proprietors have no way taken care of what has been demanded of them, or may be thought necessary for the common safety of your Majesty's subjects during a war. The Govs. in contempt of an express Act of Parliament being likewise unqualified for those commands. We do humbly offer that for the present your Royal Letters be sent to the Several Proprietor and Charter Govts. requiring them to put them selves into a posture of defence against an Enemy, from whence nevertheless We can not hope for a due compliance, untill those colonies be reunited to the Crown according to our former opinions."

Extracts from a Letter of the Board of Trade to the Queen relative to Governors' Salaries, April 2, 1703.1

"As to Proprietary and Charter Colonies, We can not propose any thing on this occasion. The Govs. of those Colonies not being appointed by your Majesty and depending either upon the Proprietors or the people, from whom they have very mean and uncertain salaries. Which incourages them to connive at unlawful trade and other irregularities inconsistent with the interests of this Kingdome, which great mischief can only be remedyed, as we humbly conceive, by reducing those Colonies to an immediate dependence on the Crown."

WILLIAM HAIGE.

BY MILES WHITE, JR., BALTIMORE, MD.

IN his "Contributions to East Jersey History," W. A. Whitehead in speaking of William Haige, the SurveyorGeneral and Receiver-General of that Province, suggests1 that he may have been the same person as the William Haige who, in 1683 and 1684, was a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, and adds, "it is not known that he left children." Again, in his "East Jersey under the Proprietaries," he states2 that "nothing is known of the descendants of Mrs. Haige."

3

Proud has informed us that William Haige, the member of Pennsylvania Council, "had been a merchant in London;" only one William Haige is mentioned in the early London records of the Society of Friends, and as will be hereafter noticed, he was styled "Merchant," and became Receiver-General of East Jersey.

In 1682 William Dyre was appointed Collector of Customs for both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and there was no reason why William Haige could not have held positions in both Provinces, especially if appointed by his father-in-law to the office last filled.

In London, Pennsylvania, and Jersey we find William Haige connected with the business of the American Colonies, and he appears to have been a man of influence and position. He was a member of the legislative bodies of the Provinces of Pennsylvania and East Jersey, and also acted in the capacity of a surveyor in both Provinces (though holding office as such only in East Jersey).

1P. 14.

2 N. J. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. I. p. 126.

3 Hist. Penna., Vol. I. p. 237.

* Mulford's Hist. N. J., p. 226.

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The following facts in regard to the William Haiges of these two Provinces appear to uphold Whitehead's supposition and to show that they were the same; and furthermore, that he left at least one surviving child, and probably more.

From what part of England the Haige family originally came is uncertain. The Parish Registers of Cheshire show that persons of the name resided there in early times, and those of other shires probably convey similar information.

In different accounts of the family, the name is variously given as Hage, Hagge, Hague, Haig, Haige, Haigh, Haigue, Hauge, Hayg, Hayge, and Heage, and in the extracts given below the original manner of spelling is retained in each

case.

The first mention seen of William Haige is in Friends' Records at "Devonshire House," London, in which his name is spelt both Haig and Haige. We there learn that William Haige, of London, Merchant, and Mary Laurie, daughter of Gawen Laurie, of London, were married at Devonshire House, 12mo., 22nd, 1671;1 Haige's parentage not being given.

The births of two children are recorded as follows: "Obadiah, b., 7mo., 1st, 1674, son of William & Mary Haige, of King Edmund's Parish, Lombard St., London; Rebecca, b., 8 mo., 4th, 1681, dau. of William & Mary Haige, Golden Leg, Court, Cheapside, Parish of St. Mary le Bow."

When Edward Byllinge failed he agreed to present to his creditors his half interest in the Province of New Jersey, which he had acquired about 1674 or 1675 from Lord Berkeley, and persuaded William Penn to join Gawen Laurie and Nicholas Lucas (two of his creditors) as Trustees. They became Trustees for one-half part of the Province, which, though then undivided, subsequently 1 July 1676 became the Province of West New Jersey; George Carteret's half becoming East New Jersey. These Trustees soon sold a considerable number of shares of their propriety to different purchasers, who thereupon became proprietors 1 All dates in this article are old style.