. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 148 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. ^EAL OF EAST JERSK dros appointed six Overseers, selectmen, or Com-missioners, who were to be under the generaljurisdiction of New Castle in keeping a court as Town or Corporation att Elenburgh, and InVerckens kill or Hogg Creek. From this timeuntil Fenwick sold his interest in his Salemcolony the history of the settlement is cloudedwith charges and countercharges, so that the gooddesigns of the Lord Proprietor came to naught. The actual separation between the coloniesof East and West Jersey took

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. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 148 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. ^EAL OF EAST JERSK dros appointed six Overseers, selectmen, or Com-missioners, who were to be under the generaljurisdiction of New Castle in keeping a court as Town or Corporation att Elenburgh, and InVerckens kill or Hogg Creek. From this timeuntil Fenwick sold his interest in his Salemcolony the history of the settlement is cloudedwith charges and countercharges, so that the gooddesigns of the Lord Proprietor came to naught. The actual separation between the coloniesof East and West Jersey took place upon the1st day of July, 1676, when a quintipartite deeddefined the interests of Sir George Carteret forhimself and William Penn, of Rickmansworth,Gawen Lawry, of London, merchant, NicholasLucas, of Hertford, maltster, and EdwardByllynge, of Westminster, gentlemen, tenants incommon of New Jersey. The line of partition,long known in boundary disputes as the Prov-ince Line, extended from Little Egg Harbor to41°.40 north latitude to the Delaware River. ToCarteret was awarded East Jersey;

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