. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 390 NEW JEKSEY AS A COL tJt. GEORGE I. reling with the Quakers, and the generally abus-ive tone of his addresses to the Assembly led tothe revocation of his authority. Even Lord Corn-bury would not allow Ingoldsby to act as lieuten-ant-governor of New York and New Jersey, al-though his partisan and armed with a royal com-mission! A picturesque and decidedly unique characterwas that of Governor Robert Hunter, who pub-lished his commission in New Jersey during thesummer of 1710. Hunter was a Scotchman, who,running away from
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 390 NEW JEKSEY AS A COL tJt. GEORGE I. reling with the Quakers, and the generally abus-ive tone of his addresses to the Assembly led tothe revocation of his authority. Even Lord Corn-bury would not allow Ingoldsby to act as lieuten-ant-governor of New York and New Jersey, al-though his partisan and armed with a royal com-mission! A picturesque and decidedly unique characterwas that of Governor Robert Hunter, who pub-lished his commission in New Jersey during thesummer of 1710. Hunter was a Scotchman, who,running away from his master, an apothecary, hadentered the British army and rose to the rank ofbrigadier-general. His excellent address, readywit, and quick though not brilliant perceptionwon for him a social position which he improvedby marriage with a woman of the nobility. Sentto Virginia as governor of that province, he wascaptured by the French, but was later released,whereupon he came to New Jersey as the succes-sor of the hated Ingoldsby. Turbulence marked the oflftcial career of Gov-ernor Hunter, a condi
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