New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . SEAL, OF NEW NETHER-LAND. 106 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. hundred and fifty miles toward the headwatersof the Great North River of New his return to Europe the excitement causedin Holland by the discovery of Hudson was un-bounded, says Berthold Fernow in his chapter on New Netherland in Winsors Narrative andCritical History of America, particularly because the newly discovered country abounded in fur-bearing animals, an important consideration toa people compelled to resort to very warm cloth-ing in winter. The voy
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . SEAL, OF NEW NETHER-LAND. 106 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. hundred and fifty miles toward the headwatersof the Great North River of New his return to Europe the excitement causedin Holland by the discovery of Hudson was un-bounded, says Berthold Fernow in his chapter on New Netherland in Winsors Narrative andCritical History of America, particularly because the newly discovered country abounded in fur-bearing animals, an important consideration toa people compelled to resort to very warm cloth-ing in winter. The voyage of Hudson was followed by a num-ber of private ventures, and, under authority, theDntch established themselves on Manhattan Is-land in 1614. In 1623 more formal possession wastaken of the territory by the West India Company,which had been finally chartered in 1621 by theStates General. In the former year Captain Cor-nells Jacobsen Mey entered the Prince Hendrickor South River, built Fort Nassau near Red Bank,and named the north cape of Delaware Bay in hishonor, while Adrian Joresson Tienpont, in thePrince Maurit
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