My Lord Augustus is with me, he is of all ye young people that I have seen the most agreeable & unaffected with ye finest notions of honesty and honour backed with a most excelant usefull understanding, and if I mistake not will turn out a very clever man. Grace and the little family joyns in their humble service to your Grace and the Duches, I have sent My Lady Duc[hess] a live beaver, it will eat frute or roots of any kinde, it must be keept near ye round or square ponds
I am My Lord
- Your Grace most oblidged
- and faithfull servant
- W. Cosby
- and faithfull servant
- Your Grace most oblidged
I beg my service to Miss Betty.
E. B. O'Callaghan, editor, Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York (Albany, 1855), V, 936-937.
55. The Commission and Instructions of a Governor (1737/8)
BY THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS
The extracts below are in the general form used in sending out all the governors. In the provincial governments the instructions to call assemblies and constitute courts gave privileges similar to those of the charter colonies. — Bibliography : E. B. Greene, List of Governors Instructions, in American Historical Review, III, 170.
GEORGE the second by the Grace of God, of Great Britain France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c. To Our Trusty and Wellbelov'd Lewis Morris Senior Esqr. Greeting. . . . know You that we reposing especial Trust and confidence, in the. Prudence Courage and Loyalty of you the said Lewis Morris, of Our especial Grace certain knowledge and meer Motion have thought fit to constitute and appoint & by these presents do constitute & appoint you the said Lewis Morris to be our Captain Genl. & Governor in chief in and over Our Province of Nova Cæsarea or New Jersey vizt the Division of East & West New Jersey in America, which we have thought fitt to re-unite into One Province and settle under one entire Government.
And we do hereby require and command you to do and execute all things in due manner that shall belong unto your said Command and the Trust We have reposed in you, according to the several powers and
