New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ONY AND AS A STATE 373 Boston News Letter (June 25-July 2, 1741), it isreported one thousand men died in ten days. Inall, owing to the advent of the rainy season anddisease, eight thousand deaths occurred, although the Officers and Men from North America,among whom were Captain Farmer and CaptainThomas, of New Jersey, behaved themselveswith much bravery, The expedition, abandoned,returned to Jamaica, and was almost forgotten inthe rage of the religious controversy of the newand old side movements. In 1744 the struggle betwe
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ONY AND AS A STATE 373 Boston News Letter (June 25-July 2, 1741), it isreported one thousand men died in ten days. Inall, owing to the advent of the rainy season anddisease, eight thousand deaths occurred, although the Officers and Men from North America,among whom were Captain Farmer and CaptainThomas, of New Jersey, behaved themselveswith much bravery, The expedition, abandoned,returned to Jamaica, and was almost forgotten inthe rage of the religious controversy of the newand old side movements. In 1744 the struggle between England andFrance broke out anew, being known in historyas King Georges War. In the spring of 1745 Gov-ernor Shirley, of Massachusetts, designed an at-tack upon the French at Cape Breton and Louis-burg, their capital, which, considered an impreg-nable fortress, was the key to the French posses-sions in North America. From the hands of theFrench Massachusetts as well as the rest of NewEngland had suffered much, and it was withhearty spirit that the colonies entere
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