VI. That wherever there is a convenient plot of land lying together containing twenty-four thousand acres, as we are informed will more especially be at Barnegat, it be divided and marked into twenty-four parts, a thousand acres to each propriety, and the parts being made as equal as can be for quality and situation; the first comers presently settling, are to have the choice of the division, and where several stand equal in that respect upon equal terms and time of settling, it be determined by lot. And that such properties as are in the rights of minors or widows, which as by accident may want proxies, or be ignorant of things there, may not be prejudiced, and yet such plots may not remain unsettled, the Deputy Governor and Commissioners are allowed to let small parts in the chief places of settlement, upon the shares of such proprietors at some small fee per annum to poor families, not exceeding fifty acres to a family to secure the quantity."

In old patents and surveys, all the water from Little Egg Harbor to the head of the bay near Manasquan was called Barnegat Bay and the land adjoining was often called Barnegat.

The following is a list of early surveys in what is now Ocean county. The large tracts were for proprietary rights. The smaller tracts were what were called "headlands." As previously stated, the proprietors, in their grants and concessions, agreed to give to actual settlers a certain number of acres for each head in the family; to each man 120 acres; to his wife 120 acres; to each child 90 or 60 acres, etc. The settler could take this land all in one body or part in one place and part in another.