. Scheyichbi and the strand : or, early days along the Delaware ; with an account of recent events at Sea Grove ; containing sketches of the romantic adventures of the pioneer colonists ; the wonderful origin of American society and civilization ; the remarkable course of political progress and material improvement in the United States, as shown in the history of New Jersey, with proof of the safety and benefit of Democratic institutions, and the necessity of religious freedom ; to which is appended a geological description of the shore of New Jersey . hout alicense, the traffic and use of rum
. Scheyichbi and the strand : or, early days along the Delaware ; with an account of recent events at Sea Grove ; containing sketches of the romantic adventures of the pioneer colonists ; the wonderful origin of American society and civilization ; the remarkable course of political progress and material improvement in the United States, as shown in the history of New Jersey, with proof of the safety and benefit of Democratic institutions, and the necessity of religious freedom ; to which is appended a geological description of the shore of New Jersey . hout alicense, the traffic and use of rum having already, as usual, been thecause of much trouble. Of the settlers at Cape May in 1685, and of those who came for somefifteen years after, the majority were attracted by the whale fishery inthe bay of Delaware. It is shown by reliable records, that whalingwas the business of Christopher Leamyeng and his son Thomas, ofCsesar Hoskins, Samuel Mathews, Jonathan Osborne, Nathaniel Short,Cornelius Skellinks, Henry Stites, Thomas Hand and his sons John andGeorge, John and Caleb Carman, John Shaw, Thomas Miller, WilliamStillwell, Humphrey Hewes, William Mason, John Richardson, Ebene-zer Swain, Henry Young, and many others. In looking over thecolonial records of New Haven, in the first years of its existence, thereader meets most of these family names, and the Long Island whale-men were of the same stock. The same names are found to-day onthe books of New England ships; they are people of Newport, of o. O O ^25 CO On. LAND TITLES AND NATURAL PRIVILEGES. 61 Nantucket, of New Bedford, and New London; the world had no suchdauntless mariners as the whalemen of New England and Cape May. The purchase of the rights of Dr. Coxe being made in 1692, theWest Jersey Society, as proprietors, to prevent confusion, nominatedAndrew Hamilton, the former deputy of Governor Barclay, to be Gov-ernor. The people at large acquiesced, and the General Assembly ofNew Jersey passed an act to cure all defe
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