A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . iscat-aqua presents for future improvement advantages that a perspicacious and thriving peoplewill not be long in ascertaining and employing. The railroad from Portsmouth to Concord,opening an easy access to the great north and west, will give to the beautiful harbor of Ports-mouth a foreign and domestic commerce hitlierto unknown. Though restricted on the sea-coast, and in this view not to be compared witli her sisterstates of New England, the State of New Hampshire is yet second among then: in extent ofterritory. That it may be filled with a p
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . iscat-aqua presents for future improvement advantages that a perspicacious and thriving peoplewill not be long in ascertaining and employing. The railroad from Portsmouth to Concord,opening an easy access to the great north and west, will give to the beautiful harbor of Ports-mouth a foreign and domestic commerce hitlierto unknown. Though restricted on the sea-coast, and in this view not to be compared witli her sisterstates of New England, the State of New Hampshire is yet second among then: in extent ofterritory. That it may be filled with a prosperous, happy, exemplary population, who shallenjoy and improve the rich privileges of Christian freemen, which, in the good providence ofGod, now form their favored lot, and transmit them unimpaired to the latest posterity, ia tliewriters fervent wish and prayer. * The destruction of Mr. WWei/s abode and family. + Iiri7tUi/y the Duke of IJridgewaters surveyor. X J- B. Moore, now librarian of the N. Y. Hist. Soc. 104 UNITED STATES NEW JERSEY is one of the central states on the Atlantic coast of the country comprising!he original thirteen United States. The earliest settlement was made in the county ofBergen, between the years ]()20 and 1G30, by some Dutch people from New York. Theywere joined by parties of Danes and Norwegians, who, in 1(138, were followed by a body ofSwedes and Fins, which formed a colony on the Delaware River, and purchased, of theaborigines the lands on botli sides of that stream, as far as the river was navigable. In 1664,the territory between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers was granted to the Duke of York,brother to Charles II. The charter included New Jersey, of which the Dutch were forthwithdispossessed by the English ; and it was then conveyed to Lord Berkeley and Sir George(Carteret. These latter proprietors drew up a form of government, and sent over Philip Car-teret as governor, who fixed upon Elizabethtown as his seat of governmen
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