Anonymous, 1 Dall. 1 (Pa. 1754)

Adjudged by the Court, that the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries † does not extend to this Province, though made before Mr. Penn's Charter: The Governor of New-York having exercised A Jurisdiction here, before the making that Statute, by Virtue of the Word Territories, in the Grant to the Duke of York, of New-York and New-Jersey.