New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . (KDWARD HYDE.). BIRTHPLACE OF LORD CORNBURY : OXFORDSHIRE. ONY AND AS A STATE 391 was his council, controlled by Jeremiah Basse,formerly governor of East and West Jersey anda Anabaptist minister. According to the state-ments made by Governor Hunter the council had avowedly opposed the government in mostthings, for which reason he prorogued the As-sembly as a useless body. After representations to the crown the councilwas reconstructed, the queen removing DanielCoxe, Peter Sonmans, and others, who took theoccasion to visit E
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . (KDWARD HYDE.). BIRTHPLACE OF LORD CORNBURY : OXFORDSHIRE. ONY AND AS A STATE 391 was his council, controlled by Jeremiah Basse,formerly governor of East and West Jersey anda Anabaptist minister. According to the state-ments made by Governor Hunter the council had avowedly opposed the government in mostthings, for which reason he prorogued the As-sembly as a useless body. After representations to the crown the councilwas reconstructed, the queen removing DanielCoxe, Peter Sonmans, and others, who took theoccasion to visit England in an endeavor to pre-*vent, in 1714, upon the accession of King GeorgeI, the renewal of Hunters commission. To ac-complish this end Sonmans had removed the pub-lic records of the province to England. At last,in justice to himself and in vindication of his ad-ministration. Governor Hunter directed the Assem-bly to meet and proceed to the conduct of the af-fairs of the province. Daniel Ooxe, who wasspeaker of the Assembly, was expelled, and, al-though he appealed to the King,
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