I received a question re the Clinker Lot Right Men and did not have a good definition; but have since found one. The term was originally a derisive terms used by the Proprietors and their advocates to identify those settlers who caused trouble for the Proprietors to distinguish them from the other settlers. These settlers lived on part of a division of 17,000 acres along the Rahway River surveyed from December 1699 to the following March. All of the lands were part of the Elizabeth Town Purchase. Part of the division had been granted to proprietors and part held in common by all the proprietors. The best reading I have had to date on the New Jersey Riots is New Jersey Land Riots, 1745-1755 by Gary S. Horowitz. This dissertation numbered 67-2460 was for a PhD in Modern History at Ohio State University. A copy is at the New Jersey State Library or it can be ordered through UMI. According to this book several petitions were submitted to the New Jersey Assembly by the Elizabethtown Associates. Early New Jersey researchers need these lists of petitioners. Any ideas how to get copies of these signatured petitions. == "Family love is this dynamic awareness of time, this shared belonging to a chain of generations...we collaborate together to root each other in a dimension of time longer than our own lives." by Michael Ignatieff "Lodged in the Heart of Memory" _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com