. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. a certificate filed with the county clerk afree pardon was granted together with restorationof the repentant citizens estate. In each countyafter August 1st commissioners, under a fee sys-tem, were permitted to sell the real and personalproperty of the refugee, giving necessary assur-ances in law for title, a method pursued through-out the Eevolution. The powers granted the council of safety werenever abused—indeed, the existence of the Stateapparently depended upon some form of govern-ment by a highly centrali
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. a certificate filed with the county clerk afree pardon was granted together with restorationof the repentant citizens estate. In each countyafter August 1st commissioners, under a fee sys-tem, were permitted to sell the real and personalproperty of the refugee, giving necessary assur-ances in law for title, a method pursued through-out the Eevolution. The powers granted the council of safety werenever abused—indeed, the existence of the Stateapparently depended upon some form of govern-ment by a highly centralized commission, whosemovements were unrestrained, whose personnelwas irreproachable, whose authority could be wellnigh limitless. Such a commission New Jerseyhad in her council of safety—a body no less re-markable for its exalted and unwavering patriot- ONY AND AS A STATE 123 ism than for its discriminative use of power,which under less honest leadership than that ofWilliam Livingston could have turned it into anagency whose autocracy would have been THE OLD JERSEY TRISOX SHIP. (One of terrible old hulks in which Amerio* i i~on*riby the British. CHAPTER VIIThe Times that Tried Mens Souls GENERAL WASHINGTON remainedin Cambridge, Boston, and theirvicinage from July 3,1775, until theearly part of April, 1776. Theevacuation of Boston had turnedthe eyes of the colonists upon New York. Towardthis portion of the colonies Lord Howe was ev-idently hastening with the possible view of obtain-ing control of the Hudson, cooperating with theKings troops, marching southward from Canada,and thus separating New England from Phila-delphia and the South. Although uncertain as to the British plan ofcampaign, Washington, with all possible speed,pushed forward to New York, where he arrivedupon the 13th of April. With him were tenthousand men, fit for duty, to defend militaryworks scattered around Manhattan Island for thedistance of twenty miles. Upon BrooklynHeights, at Kingsbridge
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