. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... X INTRODUCTORY. the Eiif^lish The title uf tliis rarely interesting work was A Brief Descriptionof New York, formerly called New Xetherlands, with the places thereunto Adjoining; Like-wise a Brief Relation of the Customs of the Indians there. This volume was largely instru-mental in promoting immigration. Luke Watson, the last of the patentees to be mentioned, was the only one who retainedhis interest in the enterprise, and came to be numbered among the founders of the town. Thepatentees gathered about them associat

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. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... X INTRODUCTORY. the Eiif^lish The title uf tliis rarely interesting work was A Brief Descriptionof New York, formerly called New Xetherlands, with the places thereunto Adjoining; Like-wise a Brief Relation of the Customs of the Indians there. This volume was largely instru-mental in promoting immigration. Luke Watson, the last of the patentees to be mentioned, was the only one who retainedhis interest in the enterprise, and came to be numbered among the founders of the town. Thepatentees gathered about them associates to the number of eighty, most of them vigorousmen between the ages of twenty-five and forty years, and a majority oi them married. Thetown which they founded, Elizabethtown, is ever to be remembered in American history asthe seat of the first English government in what is now New Jersey. The land owned bythe Elizabethtown grant extended from the mouth of the Raritan river on the south to themouth of the Passaic river on the north, a distance of not less than

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