. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Mohawks,some of the refugees fled to New Amsterdam,begging from the inhuman governor a protectionto which they were so well entitled. The natural result was an Indian war, wagedwith unrelenting fury from the Earitan to theConnecticut. Farms were laid waste, women andchildren dragged into captivity, and not a whiteperson was safe except, indeed, those who soughtand found refuge within the palisades of FortAmsterdam. Thereafter the history of the settle-ments in Hoboken and Jersey City is without espe-cial interest until th
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Mohawks,some of the refugees fled to New Amsterdam,begging from the inhuman governor a protectionto which they were so well entitled. The natural result was an Indian war, wagedwith unrelenting fury from the Earitan to theConnecticut. Farms were laid waste, women andchildren dragged into captivity, and not a whiteperson was safe except, indeed, those who soughtand found refuge within the palisades of FortAmsterdam. Thereafter the history of the settle-ments in Hoboken and Jersey City is without espe-cial interest until the arrival of the English con-querors. During the period of political control of Hol-land over the territory embraced within the limitsof the State of New Jersey her occupancy of thesoil west of the Hudson River was of a distinctive-ly tentative character. Over a vast portion of theState the foot of the white man had never the Swedes the position of Holland wasthat of armed neutrality, and in spite of occasionalassurances of friendship the Dutch awaited the. ONE OF THK WKST INDIA COMPANYS HOUSKS. ONY AND AS A STATE 117 time when Swedish polities had become so shapedthat the Delaware settlements would fall an easyprey. At last, finding them unprotected, Hollandstruck the blow and assimilated the trading postsand the farms in the Delaware and SchuylkillValleys. Other than this, the attention of theDutch was devoted almost exclusively to the up-building of Albany and New York and the estab-lishment of communities upon the lower short, the political power of Holland was duemore to physical than to artificial causes, and tothe fact that England, during the Cromwellianperiod, had first civil war and then European com-plications to occupy her attention. In holding themouth of the Hudson and adjacent territory, andlater the Delaware, the Dutch separated the NewEngland colonies from the possessions of the Eng-lish crown in Maryland and Virginia, and werein a sense p
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