New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 118 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. DUTCH WINDMILL to change masters, provided the newcomers per-mitted them the liberty of ancient speech, do-mestic customs, and social and religious privileges being granted, it is later that thetrue Dutch influence which has been of a most^enduring character appears in New Jersey. A recent historian very properly observes thatin summing up the question of the occupancy ofNew Jersey by the Dutch and Swedes the fact re-mains undisputed that, while vast claims weremade by both nations, ne


New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 118 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. DUTCH WINDMILL to change masters, provided the newcomers per-mitted them the liberty of ancient speech, do-mestic customs, and social and religious privileges being granted, it is later that thetrue Dutch influence which has been of a most^enduring character appears in New Jersey. A recent historian very properly observes thatin summing up the question of the occupancy ofNew Jersey by the Dutch and Swedes the fact re-mains undisputed that, while vast claims weremade by both nations, neither regarded their set-tlements, in the State, as anything more than mereoutlying dependencies. The Dutch interests werecentered in New York and Albany, the Swedish inWilmington and Tinicum Island, while but littleeffort was made to colonize New Jersey. Underlying all assertions made that both theDutch and Swedes sought a religious asylum in theNew World is the ever-recurring fact that the twonations were moved by a common impulse—thatof territorial acquisition in the partition of a new


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