New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ial period, of the attorney-gen-erals holding office in New Jersey several werelaymen. It was not until 1723 that James Alex-ander, the first New Jersey lawyer, was appointed,he being admitted to practice upon the day hereceived his commission as attorney-general, thesame being true of his successor, Lawrence Warrell and Cortlandt Skinner, who com-plete the list, were both members of the New Jer-sey bar. During the eighteenth century much of the his-tory of New Jersey is interwoven in the recordsof her Supreme
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ial period, of the attorney-gen-erals holding office in New Jersey several werelaymen. It was not until 1723 that James Alex-ander, the first New Jersey lawyer, was appointed,he being admitted to practice upon the day hereceived his commission as attorney-general, thesame being true of his successor, Lawrence Warrell and Cortlandt Skinner, who com-plete the list, were both members of the New Jer-sey bar. During the eighteenth century much of the his-tory of New Jersey is interwoven in the recordsof her Supreme Court, which had its actual begin-nings in the Ordinance of Lord failure of the courts of the proprietargovernments to administer justice, the uncertainty of correct practice, the undefined jurisdic- Jaraes Alexander, 6. In Scotland; fled to America withWilliam Smith, the jurist and historian; was surveyor-general of New Jersey and New York; one of the foundersof the American PhUosopWcal Society; d. in New York,April 2,1756; father of Lord \ \^\^^ ^ \ JAMES ALEXANDER. 314 NEW JERSEY AS A COL tion of the earlier tribunals, led to popular dis-content and contempt. To alter such a situation, to show the colonistthat the sceptre was held in firm hands, the Su-preme Court of the Province of New Jersey wasestablished in 1704, with far reaching power overthe lives and liberties of those within its jurisdic-tion. Modeled upon the Courts of Queens Bench,Common Pleas, or Exchequer, its practice con-formed to existing English standards, and therebysecured the right of trial by jury, except in con-fession or in non-appearance. It was providedthat the court should sit with two sessions yearly,alternately at Burlington and Perth Amboy, withcircuits, held once a year in each county, by oneof the justices of the main court, assisted by twoor more justices of the peace in the county wherethe circuit was held. Inferior courts of commonpleas and general sessions of the
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