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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)
that were soon to constitute a semicircle of villages. In August, 1665, Philip Carteret appeared among the tenants of the scattered cabins, and was quietly receivh, it was but a cluster of four houses, which, in honor of the kind-hearted Lady Carteret, was now called Elizabethtown, and rose into dignity as the capital of the s, executed partly with the approbation of Nicolls, partly with the consent of Carteret himself, were, therefore, pleaded as superior to proprietary grants; the payme, sent deputies to a constituent assembly at Elizabethtown. By that body, Philip Carteret was displaced, and his office transferred to the young and frivolous James advice of the council, after appointing John Berry as his deputy, July 1 Philip Carteret hastened to England, in search of new authority, while the colonists remaithe Dutch, the brother of Charles II. resumed the possession of New York, and Carteret appears once more as proprietary of the eastern moiety of New Jersey; but the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
l day long. Is it strange that they looked beyond the Atlantic 1674 for a refuge? When New Netherlands was recovered from the United Provinces, Berkeley and Carteret entered again into possession of their province. For Berkeley, already a very old man, the visions of colonial fortune had not been realized; there was nothing speculators bought acres by the hundred thousand. But the Quakers wished more; they desired to possess a territory where they could institute a government; and Carteret readily agreed to a division, for his partners left him the best of the bargain. And now that the men who had gone 1676. Aug. 26. about to turn the world upsid become 1682 deeply interested in the progress of civilization on the Delaware. In company with eleven others, he had purchased East New Jersey of the heirs of Carteret. But of the eastern moiety of New Jersey, peopled chiefly by Puritans, the history is intimately connected with that of New York. The line that divides East an
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
h and west of the Delaware, till they were granted to Penn; over the Jerseys Andros claimed a paramount authority. We Chap. XVII.} 1675. have seen the Quakers refer the contest for decision to an English commission. In East New Jersey, Philip Carteret had, as the deputy of Sir George, resumed the government, and, gaining popularity by postponing the payment of quitrents, confirmed liberty of conscience with representative government. A direct trade with England, unencumbered by customs, erce of New York was endangered by the competition; 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 verdict of a New York jury, Andros again entered New Jersey, to intimidate its assembly by the 1680. June 2 royal patent to the duke. The people of New Jersey could not, as in the happier Connecticut, plead an ea