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efuge south of Raritan Bay. More than a year earlier, New England Puritans, 1663 March 26. Albany Records IV. 415. sojourners on Long Island, solicited of the Dutch, and, as the records prove, obtained leave to establish on the banks of the Raritan and the Minnisink, their cherished institutions, and 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 forwn 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, the coast from