The  Newton  Colony's  Settlement.  —  The
causes  of  the  settlement  of  West  Jersey  and  the
action  of  the  projjrietaries  in  reference  to  the  di-
vision of  the  territory,  are  given  in  the  first  part  of
this  book.  By  this  division,  the  proprietors,  on
the  14th  of  January,  1681,'  set  off  a  tract  of  land
along  the  Delaware  River,  which  extended  from
the  river  eastward,  between  the  Pensaukin  Creek
and  the  Timber  Creek,  "  so  far  into  the  woods  as
to  embrace  sixty-four  thousand  acres."^

This  tract  was  designated  by  the  proprietors  as
a  place  of  settlement  for  a  company  of  immigrants
from  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  was  named  the  Third
or  Irish  Tenth.
It  will  be  noticed  in  the  early  history  of  Glou-
cester City  (found  elsewhere  in  this  book)  that  as
early  as  1677  attention  was  drawn  to  this  section
of  country  by  the  London  commissioners,  who
were  strongly  inclined  to  settle  at  what  is  now
Gloucester  City.  They  were  persuaded  to  locate
at  Burlington,  but  still  determined  to  advocate
the  selection  of  this  locality  as  a  good  place  for
settlement.  Robert  Zane,  of  Dublin,  who  proba-
bly came  over  in  the  ship  with  John  Fenwick,  was
in  Salem  as  early  as  1675,  as  he  was  one  of  the
founders  of  the  Friends'   Meeting  established  at

1  The  (late  lieie  given  is  in  tile  old  style,  and  in  accoidanco  with
the  present  calendar  the  date  is  January  14,  1682,  as  the  year  1681
did  not  end  until  March  25th.
-'  The  east  Hue  of  this  tract  was  not  definitely  settled  until  IVOS
when  Samuel  Clement  ran  the  head-lines  of  the  old  townships  of
Gloucester  County,  which  eventually  became  the  boundary  line  of
Atlantic,  Camden  and  Gloucester  Counties.
