. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. ion and dishonesty, sold his interest in New Jersey to John Fenwick,to be held in trust for Edward Byllinge. In 1675, Philip Carteret returned to America and resumed thegovernment of the province from which he had been expelled. Androsopposed him in every act; claimedNew Jersey as a part of his owndominions; kept the colony in anuproar; compelled the ships whichcame a-trading with the new settle-ments to pay tribute at New York;and finally arrested Carteret andbrought him to his own capital fortr
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. ion and dishonesty, sold his interest in New Jersey to John Fenwick,to be held in trust for Edward Byllinge. In 1675, Philip Carteret returned to America and resumed thegovernment of the province from which he had been expelled. Androsopposed him in every act; claimedNew Jersey as a part of his owndominions; kept the colony in anuproar; compelled the ships whichcame a-trading with the new settle-ments to pay tribute at New York;and finally arrested Carteret andbrought him to his own capital fortrial. Meanwhile, Byllinge becameembarrassed with debt, and was forcedto make an assignment of his Laurie, Nicholas Lucas andWilliam Penn were appointed trus-tees, and to them Byllinges interestin New Jersey was assigned for thebenefit of his creditors. The assignees were , then, was an opportunity toestablish another asylum for thepersecuted, and to found a common-wealth of Friends. Penn and hisassociates at once applied to SirGeorge Carteret for a division of the i ^. province. That nobleman was both willing and anxious to enter into an EAST AND west JERSEY| 1677# arrangement by which his own half of the territory could be freed from all encumbrance. It was accordingly agreed to divide New Jersey so that Carterets district should be separated 206 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. from the domain of the Quakers. After much discussion an agreementwas reached in the summer of 1676, and a line of division was drawnthrough the province as follows: Beginning at the southern point ofland on the east side of Little Egg Harbor, and running north of north-west to a point on the river Delaware in the latitude of forty-one degreesand forty minutes. The territory lying east of this line remained toSir George as sole proprietor, and was named East Jeesey ; while thatportion lying between the line and the Delaware was called WestJeesey, and passed under the exclusive co
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