. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ntliii.; \ nyage In * iialf Moon from ,m hjoj), discovering month of HndsoiiKiver. ;^, , Sailed on last vovage and reached Green-laud, .Jvine, ^ 1H10; discovered HudsonStmight and Bay; cre\v nktiued and castliini, his son Jahn, and seven others adrift,in a shallop, Midsummer Day, Kill; notrace of him was ever found. \ COL *j of in Holland by the discovery of .b^oah^ cr?^ .: .^.P^ttiffitr a •- 4»>B» bniv l)*MrhrnH W9*f>r!:^«Jte»^^•S4le^ll?, , . : .; . .. ..:.,; .,i, . ;:,,- * landinlGU. ii^ *^ taken
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ntliii.; \ nyage In * iialf Moon from ,m hjoj), discovering month of HndsoiiKiver. ;^, , Sailed on last vovage and reached Green-laud, .Jvine, ^ 1H10; discovered HudsonStmight and Bay; cre\v nktiued and castliini, his son Jahn, and seven others adrift,in a shallop, Midsummer Day, Kill; notrace of him was ever found. \ COL *j of in Holland by the discovery of .b^oah^ cr?^ .: .^.P^ttiffitr a •- 4»>B» bniv l)*MrhrnH W9*f>r!:^«Jte»^^•S4le^ll?, , . : .; . .. ..:.,; .,i, . ;:,,- * landinlGU. ii^ *^ taken of the terriu-1 ^..? - ? ? ^> which had been finally chartered in 1«21 by theStates General. In the former year Captain Cor-nells Jacobsen Mey entered the Prince Hendrick,,.. nrt Nassau near Red Bank, ,, ^ of Delaware Bay in his ^ Adrian .loresson Tienpont, in the or North Hiver, strengthened the t Fort ? Preparanons were made Jor- {*<»lo: gov- erning the settlements of the HiuIhu. /al- ^.ructur. called. HENRY HUDSON, ONY AND AS A STATE 107 ley. Director Peter Minuit, in 1626, for the valueof twenty-four dollars, secured the Indian title toManhattan Island, and a new charter of freedomand exemptions, strongly tinctured with thefaults of the feudal system, was secured from thegovernment of Holland. But while this charterwas under discussion some of the directors of theWest India Company, between April, 1630, andJuly, 1631, took advantage of their position andsecured for themselves a share in the new priv-ileges by purchasing from the Indians, as thecharter required, the most conveniently locatedand fertile tracts of land. This policy of pur-chase, instituted by the Dutch and adopted by theQuakers, was a recognition that the Indian hadrights of life, liberty, opinion, and property. Itwas the acknowledgment of those rights that wonfor the Dutch the friendship of the Indian, who,by holding back the French in Canada, made Hol-lands province in America a possibi
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