. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ization a reputation second onlyto that other world-famous Philadelphia Club, theColony, and later the State in Schuylkill. Ofthe Gloucester fox hunters the leader was JonasCattell, a man of superior strength, who upon oneoccasion walked from Woodbury to Cape May, adistance of eighty miles, bearing a letter, and re-turned the next day with an answer. Upon or near the river front were the Kaighns,the Kays, the Haddons, the Matlacks, the Spicers,the Collins—all members of the Society ofFriends,—while Swedesboro had in its v
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ization a reputation second onlyto that other world-famous Philadelphia Club, theColony, and later the State in Schuylkill. Ofthe Gloucester fox hunters the leader was JonasCattell, a man of superior strength, who upon oneoccasion walked from Woodbury to Cape May, adistance of eighty miles, bearing a letter, and re-turned the next day with an answer. Upon or near the river front were the Kaighns,the Kays, the Haddons, the Matlacks, the Spicers,the Collins—all members of the Society ofFriends,—while Swedesboro had in its vicinity theRambos, Helms, Keens, Hoffmans, and Vanne-mans, and yet talked of its old pastor, the Collin, who made the first translation of IsraelAcreliuss History of New Sweden. At Haddon-field the council of safety and State Legislaturehad assembled in the darkest days of the Revolu-tion; at Arawamus Gloucester folk had set up anindependent county government while yet theprovince was young. At the Landing were theChews. Erick Mullica had given his name to. MORVEW.(Home of Richard Stockton, the srigner. at Princeton.) 64 NEW JERSEY AS A COL Mullica Hill, and Woodbury had been long settledby the Quakers. The great and wealthy County of Burling-ton lost but little of its colonial , the ancient capital of WTest Jer-sey, in spite of the fact that the seat of the coun-tys political government had been moved toMount Holly, was still a center of social and par-ticularly of intellectual life. From the press ofthe Allinsons had gone out many a book andpamphlet. Here had come Elias Boudinot to writehis Star of the West, while in old Saint Marysyard lay the bones of William Bradford, first at-torney-general of the United States. On GreenBank was the home of the Binneys, here had beenthe mansion of Governor William Franklin, herehad resided the Smiths, the Sterlings, the Mor-rises, and the Schuylers, famed in divers walks oflife. Nor had Mount Holly been la
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