New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . irst discovered it onthe south, and partially explored Delaware Bay ; thenhe sailed up the coast and entered New York Bay,and sailed some distance up the river which now bearshis name. Hudson did more for New Jersey than any of theother discoverers, for his men were the first Europeans who ever set foot upon its soil. Some of them landedin the vicinity of Bergen Point, and were met in afriendly way by a great many of the original inhab-itants. But the fact that he found here possessors ofthe soil made no difference to Hudson : he c
New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . irst discovered it onthe south, and partially explored Delaware Bay ; thenhe sailed up the coast and entered New York Bay,and sailed some distance up the river which now bearshis name. Hudson did more for New Jersey than any of theother discoverers, for his men were the first Europeans who ever set foot upon its soil. Some of them landedin the vicinity of Bergen Point, and were met in afriendly way by a great many of the original inhab-itants. But the fact that he found here possessors ofthe soil made no difference to Hudson : he claimed thecountry for the Dutch. Five years afterwards, thatnation made a settlement at New York, and claimingthe whole of the surrounding country, including NewJersey, gave it the name of New Netherland. Thus was New Jersey discovered on the north ; andafter the efforts of four nations,—the Indians first,the English under Cabot, the French, and the Dutch(for Hudson was now in the service of that nation), —it may be said to have been entirely THE STORY OF A PEACEMAKER. AFTER the outside boundaries of New Jersey hadbeen pretty thoroughly discovered, it was quitenatural that some nations who laid claim to the Stateshould desire to find out something in regard to itsinterior, and make settlements upon its soil. This was not done by the English, who had madethe first claim to the land, but by the Dutch. In theearly part of the seventeenth century, the West IndiaCompany of Holland sent out a shij) containing thefoundation for a little colony, — men, provisions, and allthings necessary. They sailed into Delaware Bay ; andthe commander, Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, gave his nameto Cape May. The expedition went up the DelawareRiver till they reached Timber Creek, probably notmuch more than ten miles from the spot where Phila-delphia now stands. There they settled, and built afort, which they called Fort Nassau. But this was notlooked upon with favor by the Indians, and it
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