. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . t. 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.
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . t. 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. That his claim to govern-ment in West Jersey was partially recognized isshown by a lease executed for Matiniconk Island,near Burlington, from the duke to Robert Stacy,one of the commissioners. In 1679 certain Eng-lish settlers petitioned for lands near Trenton, willing to become Tennants to his Highness theDuke of Yourke, while two years previously com-missions for the magistrates of West Jersey hadbeen issued from New York, both for the upper 154 NEAV JERSEY AS A GOL. plantations at Burlington and the lower plan-tations at Salem, By the grant, however, theDuke of York formally disallowed his pretensions,particularly as the eminent lawyer. Sir WilliamJones, to whom the matter had been referred, ad-vised that the duke had no right to make demandsupon the inhabitants in question. In the meantime affairs in Carterets portionof the province. East Jersey, were tending towarda peaceful settlement of the agrarian 1675 the Legislature had passed an act pro-viding that all actions brought to recover theprice of goods or labor employed in provincial de-fense, from 1670 to 1673, should be abolished. Afree pardon was extended to those taking part inthe rebellion, while heavy punishments were di-rected to be imposed upon those who reviled oripbraided their opponents. It was recommendedn the statute that the past be buried in obliv-on. This was followed in 1675 by the prescrip-V,
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