Land Purchase Agreement Between Capt. Issac S. JENNINGS and The Proprietors of 
East Jersey (1886); Middlesex/Ocean County, NJ.

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OFFICE OF THE 
BOARD OF PROPRIETORS OF 
EAST JERSEY         ____________ PERTH AMBOY, NJ          188

“Capt. ISSAC S. JENNINGS having agreed with the Proprietors of East Jersey to 
purchase of them this interest in lot 1 to 15 inclusive, and the north half of 
lot No 17 of the lot known as the commissioner division of the Daniel Cox/Coxe? 
Lots lying on Long Beach and the remaining interest in what is knows as the 
Dockwra? Patent lying also on long beach 106 acres which apperar to have been 
divided previously having been paid as a present consideration for which a 
receipt is hereby indorsed.  Now therefore the said ISAAC J. JENNINGS agrees 
further to pay upon the tender delivery of the bargain and sale sheet made by 
the President of the East Jersey Proprietors thirteen hundred dollars in Cash 
and a good sufficient bond or bonds satisfactory in all respects secure the 
additional sum of fire hundred dollars payable within two years from the date of 
these presents and same being legal interest and to be paid semi annually to WM. 
M. FORCE Register of the aforesaid Board of East Jersey Proprietors, and the 
said Issac I. S. Jennings further agrees to pay all the expenses of the resurvey 
and return of the tract of land Known as the Dockwra? Patent on Long Beach as 
aforesaid in conformation the parties making this agreement have hereunto signed 
their respective names this tenth day of March AD 1886.

                              Signed: I. S. Jennings
                                   Wm. M. Force, Registrar for the East Jersey 
Proprietors

And it is subsequently agreed that James Holgate has the privilage of the 
purchase of the North half of lot 17 at the rate of five dollars per acre.

                              Signed:   I. S. Jennings
                                   Wm M. Force