New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s a world power, limitless inher resources, a proposition made by WilliamUsselinx, an exiled Antwerp merchant, led, in1606, to the formation of a definite plan for a WestIndia Company. The corporation was to have alife of thirty-six years, and to receive for a timethe support of the United Provinces. Owing tojealousies of these provinces, the possibilities ofthe ships of the company preying upon Spanishcommerce, and jeopardizing a possible peace withSpain, the idea was temporarily abandoned. The year 1609 is made memorable
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s a world power, limitless inher resources, a proposition made by WilliamUsselinx, an exiled Antwerp merchant, led, in1606, to the formation of a definite plan for a WestIndia Company. The corporation was to have alife of thirty-six years, and to receive for a timethe support of the United Provinces. Owing tojealousies of these provinces, the possibilities ofthe ships of the company preying upon Spanishcommerce, and jeopardizing a possible peace withSpain, the idea was temporarily abandoned. The year 1609 is made memorable by the ap-pearance upon the shores of America of HenryHudson, an English navigator in the employ of theEast India Company, who, abandoning at sea hisplan to find a northeast passage to India, pro-posed to seek at 40 N. latitude a northwest pas-sage. Failing to find an inlet to the WesternOcean at Newfoundland, Penobscot Bay, or CapeCod, he sailed for a week in Delaware Bay andKiver, and early in September, after landing uponSandy Hook, took his yacht, Half Moon, one. SEAL, OF NEW NETHER-LAND. 106 NEW JERSEY AS A COL
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