. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . romMorristown there were roads to Hackensack andto Woodbridge. From what is now Jersey Citya road ran along the Palisades to Haverstraw, andthence north, while another highway extendedthrough Schraalenburg and Ringwood. The con-gested centers north of the Raritan and east ofthe hill country, including Metuchen, ScotchPlains, Springfield, Elizabethtown, Rahway, New-ark, and the region now known as Paterson, werethoroughly united. Upon the public highways there were somehisfhwavmen and not a few horse thieves. Of the ONY AN
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . romMorristown there were roads to Hackensack andto Woodbridge. From what is now Jersey Citya road ran along the Palisades to Haverstraw, andthence north, while another highway extendedthrough Schraalenburg and Ringwood. The con-gested centers north of the Raritan and east ofthe hill country, including Metuchen, ScotchPlains, Springfield, Elizabethtown, Rahway, New-ark, and the region now known as Paterson, werethoroughly united. Upon the public highways there were somehisfhwavmen and not a few horse thieves. Of the ONY AND AS A STATE 237 latter Tom Bell, a noted character in his day andthe hero of many exploits, is best the State appears to have been singularlyfree from depredations of this class of crim-inals, although the opportunities offered themwere abundant. The prompt and eJBacacious ad-ministration of criminal law, and the severe pen-alties prescribed for such offenses, acted as a re-straint upon this element and led to few but thor-oughly effective A NEW JBBSEY STAGE COACH. r^ H A P T E E X T VCurrency and Counterfeiting O THE Algonkain Indian must becredited the establishment of the first medium of exchange within _^^__ the boundaries of the State of New Jersey. When the Dutch andSwedes came to the valleys of the Hudson andDelaware they found the Lenni-Lenape and kin-dred peoples possessed of a money which, whilecrude, was satisfactory—so satisfactory, indeed,that the settlers provided, by custom and law,for its use among themselves and in their tradingrelations with neighboring tribes. This moneywas the wampum,—the shell money of the peltrydealer and of the signers of treaties. In suchesteem were these belts held that early in the set-tlement of Burlington a negro woman wasbrought before the Court for stealing and de-facing ye Indian Belt psented by ye Sachem toye Govnor. Made from shells of bivalves, usually tK^Wmon clam, wampum-mints embraced any re
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