. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . GOVEBNOK COKNBURY IN FEMALE ATTIRE. 214 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY the colony. It lay in the power of the first royalgovernor to correct abuses of the past, strengthenthe loyalty of the present, and lay broad plans forthe future. But Combury had no aspirations be-yond the gratification of his selfish lusts. Whileengaged in attaining his own ends he sacrificedthe hopes of an empire and paved the way for aspirit of resistance, first directed toward the gov-ernors of the crown and then against the crownitself. The Assembly first
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . GOVEBNOK COKNBURY IN FEMALE ATTIRE. 214 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY the colony. It lay in the power of the first royalgovernor to correct abuses of the past, strengthenthe loyalty of the present, and lay broad plans forthe future. But Combury had no aspirations be-yond the gratification of his selfish lusts. Whileengaged in attaining his own ends he sacrificedthe hopes of an empire and paved the way for aspirit of resistance, first directed toward the gov-ernors of the crown and then against the crownitself. The Assembly first learned its power; the peo-ple recognized that no divinity hedged in a gov-ernor, although he represented in himself the per-son of his sovereign. It was but the first uncon-scious step toward that which even in dreamswould have been treason—the independence ofthe THE FIRST MAP OF NEW YORK CITY. C H A P T E R XIIThe Governor, Council, and Assembly WITH the acceptance, on April 17,1702, of the surrender of gov-ernment, by deed of the proprie-tors of East Jersey and the pro-prietors of West Jersey, QueenAnne in her Instructions, given, on the 16th dayof November, 1702, to Governor Cornbury, pro-vided for the government of the colony. These Instructions, although in no sense organic law,were an unmistakable exposition of the attitude ofthe crown toward Her Majestys colony of NewJersey. As these Instructions were repeated, in sub-stance if not in form, for the guidance of succeed-ing royal governors, and as the frame of govern-ment depended upon their observance, their planand scope, as affecting the executive and legis-lative departments of the colony, are worthy ofexamination. The governors duties under the Instructions were to see that all laws be en-acted in the name and style by the Governor,Council, and Assembly, and that the titles ofall sta
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