. Bill Nye's history of the United States. t wife. Berkeley sold his part to some English Qua-kers. This part was called West Jersey. Heclaimed that it was too far from town. It was very hard for a lord to clear up land, and Berkeley92 BEKKELEV IN NEW JERSEY. SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES. 93 missed his evenings at the Savage Club, and hisnose yearned for a good whiff of real old RottenRow fog. So many disputes arose regarding the title toJersey that the whole thing finally reverted to thecrown in 1702. When there was any trouble overtitles in those days it was always settled by lettingit re
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. t wife. Berkeley sold his part to some English Qua-kers. This part was called West Jersey. Heclaimed that it was too far from town. It was very hard for a lord to clear up land, and Berkeley92 BEKKELEV IN NEW JERSEY. SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES. 93 missed his evenings at the Savage Club, and hisnose yearned for a good whiff of real old RottenRow fog. So many disputes arose regarding the title toJersey that the whole thing finally reverted to thecrown in 1702. When there was any trouble overtitles in those days it was always settled by lettingit revert to the crown. It has been some years now,however, since that has happened in this country. Thirty-six years later New Jersey was set apartas a separate royal province, and became a rail-road terminus and bathing-place. Delaware was settled by the Swedes at Wil-mington first, and called New Sweden. I amsurprised that the Norsemen, who it is claimedmade the first and least expensive summer atNewport, R. I., should not have clung to CHEAPEST NEWPORT SEASON. 94 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. They could have made a good investment, andin a few years would have been strong enough towipe out the Brooklyn police. The Swedes, too, had a good foothold in NewYork, Jersey, and Delaware, also a start in Penn-sylvania. But the two nations seemed to yearnfor home, and as soon as boats began to run regu-larly to Stockholm and Christiania, they later years they discovered Minneapolis andStillwater. William Penn now loomed up on the was an Enelish Quaker who had been ex-pelled from Oxford and jugged in Cork also forhis religious belief He was the son of AdmiralSir William Penn, and had a good record. Hebelieved that elocutionary prayer was unnecessary,and that the acoustics of heaven were such thatthe vilest sinner with no voice-culture could beheard in the remotest portion of the gallery. The only thing that has been said against Pennwith any sort of semblance of
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