A history of the American nation . by their own consent: for we put the power in the people. INIany Quakers,glad to find a refuge fromoppression, now made theirway to the new colony. Shortly after this George Carteret died, and his rights in East New Jersey. .^ , ^ , Last Jerseywere sold to Penn andtwenty-three associates were notall Quakers; there wereamong them Presbyteriansfrom Scotland, dissenters,and Catholics. Within afew years many Scotchcame over, and thus beganthe strong Scotch andPresbyterian element ofNew Jersey. In the mean-time there had been greattrouble with And
A history of the American nation . by their own consent: for we put the power in the people. INIany Quakers,glad to find a refuge fromoppression, now made theirway to the new colony. Shortly after this George Carteret died, and his rights in East New Jersey. .^ , ^ , Last Jerseywere sold to Penn andtwenty-three associates were notall Quakers; there wereamong them Presbyteriansfrom Scotland, dissenters,and Catholics. Within afew years many Scotchcame over, and thus beganthe strong Scotch andPresbyterian element ofNew Jersey. In the mean-time there had been greattrouble with Andros, the dukes governor in New E.^st Jersey and West Jersey \ork, whoset up certain showing the line of loS; (unfmished) andClamis ot right m East the proposed boundary Jersey, and could not re-frain from annoying interference in the colony. After a timethe rights of the proprietors were acquired by the crown(1702), and the two Jerseys united into one became a royalcolony. The history of New Jersey in these early days can scarcely. Proposed BoundarifLine of 16S7{Lrfn:shcd) 80 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION be called interesting. There is a certain lack of unity and pur-pose in the colony; it was not a great experiment in religion andpolitics like New England, nor had it the picturesque quali-ties of the southern colonies. Despite legisla-the^cdonV ^^^^ wrangliugs and {proprietary disputes, thecolony prospered steadily and soberly, growing intoa substantial commonwealth. Farming was almost the sole oc-cupation, and all through the next centur}^ the colony was com-mercially dependent on New York or on the more prosperousand vigorous colony which grew up on its western border. References Short accounts: Thwaites, The Colonies, pp. 210-215; Fisher,The Colonial Era, Chapter X; Lodge, Short History, pp. 263-267;Bancroft, History, Volume I, pp. 520-523 and 546-551, also VolumeII, pp. 3i-33;HiLDRETH, Z?/j/c>r3, Volumell, pp. 51-61 and 216-218;Channing, History of the United States,
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