. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . , asthe report was believed to be unfounded. Uponthe 8th of August, 1673, six hundred Dutch sol-diers landed above New York City at a point ad-jacent to Wall Street, marched against FortJames, then commanded by Captain Manning, andhis garrison of less than eighty men. By a singularcoincidence Governor Lovelace w^as absent fromthe city upon a friendly visit to Governor Win-throp, of Connecticut, as Director Peter Stuyve-sant had been absent in 1661. As upon the formeroccasion New York surrendered in a bloodless con-test, t
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . , asthe report was believed to be unfounded. Uponthe 8th of August, 1673, six hundred Dutch sol-diers landed above New York City at a point ad-jacent to Wall Street, marched against FortJames, then commanded by Captain Manning, andhis garrison of less than eighty men. By a singularcoincidence Governor Lovelace w^as absent fromthe city upon a friendly visit to Governor Win-throp, of Connecticut, as Director Peter Stuyve-sant had been absent in 1661. As upon the formeroccasion New York surrendered in a bloodless con-test, the Hudson River towns made submission,while a council of war assembled composed of theDutch commanders, Cornelius Evertsen, JacobBenckes, and Captains Anthony Colve, NicholasBoes, and Abram van Tyll. The name New Yorkwas changed to that of New Orange in honor ofWilliam of Orange, Staadholder. There appeared before this council inhabitantsof Elisabets Towne, Nieworke, Woodbridge, andPiscattway, of New Yarsey, who petitionethat they might be permitted to treat respectin. JOHN WINTHROP.(Comiecticut.) 140 NEW JERSEY AS A COL the surrender of these towns. The inhabitants ofthe Village of Bergen and the Hamlets andBouweries thereon depending, as well as Mid-dletowne and Shroesbury, were also directed tosend delegates for a similar purpose, under athreat of subjugation by force of arms. To theterritory embracing these towns the generic nameAchter Coll, Back of the Bay, was given, al-though at first applied only to Newark Bay. Forthe towns officers known as schouts and schepens,popularly nominated and confirmed by the Dutchcouncil, were selected. For the six English townsa general schout and a general secretary were ap-pointed. In the returns made to the council the popula-tion of the English towns for 1673 is given as fol-lows: Elizabethtown eighty men, Newark eighty-six men, Woodbridge fifty-four men, Piscatawayforty-three men, Middletown sixty men, Shrews-bury sixty-eight men, with
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