. 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 . Nicolls, itscommander, his deputy, to act
. 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 . Nicolls, itscommander, his deputy, to act as such after the subjugation of theDutch colony. Nicolls had been gone from England but a monthwhen, on the twenty-third of June, the Duke of York, well knowingthe success of the enterprise was assured by the treachery which con-ceived it, sold to Lord John Berkeley, Privy Councillor and Baron ofStratton, and Sir George Carteret, of Sattrum, Devon County, Knight,a native of the Isle of Jersey, all the territory now included in theState of New Jersey, which then received the name of New Jersey,or Nova Ca^saria. James was one of the worst bigots of the Englishline of kings; all his good qualities, as a man, a prince, a king, werefoiled with glaring defects, yet in his honor the name of Manhattan waschanged by Nicolls to New York, the west of the Hudson was calledAlbania, and Long Island received the appellation of Yorkshire ;thus all the various titles of the Duke were foisted upon the countryat once—the force of flattery could no farther ^6 SCHEYICHBI AND THE STRAND. have ever been distinguished. The New England emigrants soon ac-quired the influence in New Jersey their pertinacious habits guaranteedfrom the first, and if the constitution and laws of the new Common-wealth were more favorable to liberty than the primitive enactments ofMassachusetts and Connecticut, it was not the fault of the conscien-tiously stubborn Puritans ! While NicoUs by every means encouraged the
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