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even their criminal jurisprudence. Soon 1664 Sept. 20. after the surrender, a similar petition was renewed to the representative of the duke of York; and, as the parties, heedless of the former grant to Herman, succeeded in obtaining from the Indians a deed of an ex- Oct. 28. tensive territory on Newark Bay, Nicolls, ignorant as yet of the sale of New Jersey, and having already granted land on Hackensack Neck, encouraged emi- Oct. 3. gration by ratifying the sale. The tract afterwards Dec. 2 became known as the Elizabethtown purchase, and led to abundant litigation. In April, 1665, a further 1665 April 8. patent was issued, under the same authority, to William Goulding and others, for the region extending from Sandy Hook to the mouth of the Raritan. For a few months, East New Jersey bore the name of Albania. Nicolls could boast that on the new pur- Nov. chases from the Indians, three towns were beginning; and under grants from the Dutch and from the governor of New York, th