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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
May. had been of so little avail that, in 1634, not a single white man dwelt within the Bay of the Delaware. The pioneers of Sir Edmund Ployden, and the restless emigrants from New Haven, had both been unsuccessful. Here and there, in the counties of Gloucester and Burlington, a Swedish farmer may have preserved his dwelling on the Jersey side of the river; and, before 1664, perhaps three Dutch families were established about Burlington; but as yet West New Jersey had not a hamlet. In East Jersey, of which the hills had been praised by Verrazzani, and the soil trodden by the mariners of Hudson, a trading station seems, in 1618, to have been occupied at Bergen. In December, 1651, Augustine Herman purchased, but hardly took possession of the land that stretched from Newark Bay to the Chap XV.} west of Elizabethtown, while, in January, 1658, otherpurchasers obtained the large grant called Bergen, where the early station became a permanent settlement. Before the end of 1664, a few
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ompetition; and, disregarding a second patent from the duke of York, Andros claimed that the ships of New 1678. Oct. 10. Jersey should pay tribute at Manhattan. After long altercations, and the arrest of Carteret, terminated only by the honest verdn, with jurisdiction over the five thousand already planted on the soil, was pur- Leaming and Spicer's Grants, &c., of N. Jersey, 73. chased by an association of twelve Quakers, under the auspices of William Penn. A brief account of the 1682 prov, Model of the Government of N. J. 146 1682, possession was taken by Thomas Rudyard, G. P. on the Early History of East Jersey, in Newark Daily Advertiser, March and April, 1839. Smith's Hist. of N. J., 166, 167. as temporary deputy-governor; rsey withdrew, the executive power, weakened by transfers, was intrusted Leaming and Spicer, 302. G. P. on Hist. of East Jersey. by him to Andrew Hamilton. The territory, easy of access from its extended seaboard, its bays and rivers, flanked on