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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
commissions were issued by two sets of proprietors, of which each had its adherents while a third party, swayed by disgust at the confusion, and also by disputes about land titles, rejected the proprietaries altogether. In the western moiety, Daniel Coxe, as largest owner of the domain, claimed exclu- 1689 sive proprietary powers; yet the people disallowed his claim, rejecting his deputy under the bad name of a Jacobite. In 1691, Coxe conveyed such authority as he had to the West Jersey SociCoxe conveyed such authority as he had to the West Jersey Society; and in 1692, Andrew Hamilton was accepted in the colony as governor under their commission. Thus did West New Jersey continue, with a short interruption in 1698, till the government was surrendered. But the law officers of 1694 the crown questioned even the temporary settlement, and the lords of trade claimed New Jersey as a royal province, and they proposed a settlement of the ques- 1699 tion by a trial in Westminster Hall on a feigned issue. The proprietaries, threatened with the ul
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
e very moment when the fort at Biloxi was in progress; and, at once, an exploring expedition, 1699. under the auspices of Coxe, a proprietor of New Jersey, sought also for the mouths of the Mississippi. When Bienville, who passed the summer in explriver which was the scene of the interview was named and is still called, English Turn. Thus failed the vast project of Coxe to possess Chap XXI} what he styled the English province of Carolana. But Hennepin—who, had he but loved truth, would haht-hearted, ambitious, daring discoverer, but also as a boastful liar—had had an audience of William III.; a memorial from Coxe was also presented to King William in council, and the members were unanimous in the opinion, that the settling of the bani should be encouraged. I will leap over twenty stumbling-blocks, rather than not effect it, said William of Orange; and Coxe's Carolana. he often assured the proprietor of his willingness to send over, at his own cost, several hundred Huguenot and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
wer to the borders of the empire bequeathed to her successors. While the states of Europe, by means of their wide relations, were fast forming the nations of the whole world into one political system, the few incidents of war in our America could obtain no interest. In themselves they were destitute of grandeur, and, though productive of individual distress, had no abiding influence whatever; it was felt that the true theatre of the war was not there. A proposition was brought forward by Coxe to form a union of all the colonies, for the purposes of defence; but danger was not so universal or so imminent as to furnish a sufficient motive for a confederacy. The peace of the central provinces was unbroken; the government of Virginia feared dissenters more than Spaniards. Morris, in one of its interior counties, in the south-west range, chanced to have a copy of Luther on Galatians, and Bunyan's works, and read from them, every Lord's day, to his neighbors. At last, a meeting-house