Collection of papers prepared and read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity . >?: •x-. iV^^.^ r/*^v^fe:v. - -f^*^ ON OLD STAGE ROAD IN STURBRIDGE. 61 of New Jersey, his friends in England obtaining a state-ment from the Solicitor-General that his being a Scotchmandid not prevent him from holding the ofRce. Basse, thedeposed official, inmiediately went to England and exertedhimself trying to prevent any reconciliation between thediscordant factions on either side of the water, and Hamil-tons return to New Jersey was followed with more or lesstrouble from the friends of Basse, and after
Collection of papers prepared and read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity . >?: •x-. iV^^.^ r/*^v^fe:v. - -f^*^ ON OLD STAGE ROAD IN STURBRIDGE. 61 of New Jersey, his friends in England obtaining a state-ment from the Solicitor-General that his being a Scotchmandid not prevent him from holding the ofRce. Basse, thedeposed official, inmiediately went to England and exertedhimself trying to prevent any reconciliation between thediscordant factions on either side of the water, and Hamil-tons return to New Jersey was followed with more or lesstrouble from the friends of Basse, and after a trial of aboutthree years Lord Viscount Cornbury was, July 25, 1702,appointed to succeed him. It will be noticed that Hamiltonreceived his appointment as Deputy-Postmaster for theAmerican Colonies while on one of his visits to home for the greater portion of the time passed inthis country was in Burlington, N. J. He was a man ofability and very generally well liked. The principalcharge made against him in New Jersey was his friendshipfor the Quakers. He was an associate with
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