. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . common hall of justice within this prov-ince, and to be read four times a year before thepeople. From the date of the Concessions (1676) untilthe meeting of the first Legislature, November 25,1681, West Jersey was governed by proprietarycommissioners, who were clothed with amplepowers of administration. The ship Kent, withtwo hundred and thirty passengers, among whomwere the commissioners, arrived at Sandy Hookand later entered the Delaware, proceeding slow-ly northward to the site of Burlington, at whichplace settlement
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . common hall of justice within this prov-ince, and to be read four times a year before thepeople. From the date of the Concessions (1676) untilthe meeting of the first Legislature, November 25,1681, West Jersey was governed by proprietarycommissioners, who were clothed with amplepowers of administration. The ship Kent, withtwo hundred and thirty passengers, among whomwere the commissioners, arrived at Sandy Hookand later entered the Delaware, proceeding slow-ly northward to the site of Burlington, at whichplace settlement was made in the autumn of Andros, in New York, while claiminga tentative supervision over the West Jerseycolony, promised aid in securing the acknowledg-ment of the rights of the colonists. In 1677 and 1678 new shiploads of emigrantsarrived, occupying the 1st and 2d Tenthsbetween the Rancocas River and the AssanpinkCreek—substantially the river front of the oldCounty of Burlington. So intent were the mem-bers of the Society upon their immediate affairs. ^^IaII^^ ?K OK [iBuilt about 17 ONY AND AS A STATE 153 that no attention was paid to John Fenwick andhis efforts to colonize Salem. Unquestionably the most noteworthy event ofthe period of the commissioners government wasa second grant made by the Duke of York, con-veying the soil and government of West Jersey toWilliam Penn, Edward Byllynge, Gawen Lawry,Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge, of St. Pauls, Shad-well, in the County of Middlesex, tanner, and Ed-mond Warner, citizen, of London. The date of thisgrant was August 6, 1680. Eldridge and Warnerhad by this time become possessed of the Fenwickinterest, thus making them parties to the grant conveyed the free use of all bays, riv-ers, and waters for navigation, fishing, free trade,or otherwise. For some time, in spite of the protestations ofthe New Jersey commissioners, the agents of theDuke of York had endeavored to collect dutiesupon the Delaware.
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