. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . us called should be a quorum to settle thecontest. By a vote of one hundred and eleven to eighty-one on the 28th of February, 1840, the five Demo-cratic members, Philemon Dickerson, Peter , Daniel B. Ryall, Joseph Kille, and Will-iam B. Cooper, were declared, to be members ofthe House. In July their election was duly con-firmed by a committee report by a vote of onehundred and two to twenty-two. The great seal of New Jersey, which as the sym-bol of State authority played so conspicuous apart in the war, has had a h
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . us called should be a quorum to settle thecontest. By a vote of one hundred and eleven to eighty-one on the 28th of February, 1840, the five Demo-cratic members, Philemon Dickerson, Peter , Daniel B. Ryall, Joseph Kille, and Will-iam B. Cooper, were declared, to be members ofthe House. In July their election was duly con-firmed by a committee report by a vote of onehundred and two to twenty-two. The great seal of New Jersey, which as the sym-bol of State authority played so conspicuous apart in the war, has had a history as ancientas it is honorable. No one act of the first session of the first Legis-lature of the State of New Jersey convening inthe College of New Jersey, at Princeton, partookmore of the affirmance of statehood than the pro-vision made for the design of a great seal. UnderArticle XI of the constitution of July 2, 1770, au-thority was given to the Council and Assemblyto make the great seal of this Colony, the cus-tody whereof lay with the governor, or, in his ab. James Carnahan, ninth presidentNew Jersey, Princeton, 1823-61!; Ik I16, 1775 ; son of a major In Revolutionary armyPrinceton College 1800; licensed to preach 1804;taught a classical academy in Georgetown, i> 0.,nine years; rf. in Newark. N. J., March : 334 NEW JERSEY AS A COL sence, with the vice-president of council, to beused by them as occasion may require. Upon the 6th day of September, 1776, RichardSmith, of the County of Burlington, and JohnCooper, of the County of Gloucester, members ofcouncil, were directed to meet a committee ofthe House of Assembly in order to form a GreatSeal. William Paterson, of Somerset County,was directed by Council to inform the House ofAssembly of the selection. Upon the same day theAssembly chose Samuel Dick, of Salem County,Ephraim Harris, of Cumberland County, JohnCovenhoven, of Monmouth County, and CharlesCoxe, of Hunterdon County, as a committee to actwith Council in orde
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