The History of New Jersey From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
The History of New Jersey From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
W H William Henry Carpenter
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" These in- cluded '' all the lands from the west bank of Connecticut River to the eastern shore of Delaware Bay. " Much trouble subsequently resulted from this commission, and it has been thought that the duke, while conferring it, designed to revoke his grants to the New Jersey proprietaries. But, if such was his dishonourable intention, he lacked resolution to fulfil it ; for toward the end of the same month he renewed the title of Sir George Carteret to a moiety of the province, of which an... informal partition was at this time made. Previously, on the 18th of March, 1673, Berkeley, now an old man, disappointed in his hopes of colonial aggrandizement, had sold out his share to John Fenwicke and Edward Byllinge, for the sum of one thousand pounds. Both these purchasers were members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, a religious body destined to exercise an important influence over the settlement and future character of the province. Arising in England in 1644, at a time when men's minds were more than usually disposed to active inquiry into the deeper questions of religion as well as of civil government, the sect of people 1674.
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