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Page ix
... New Jersey just enough to show , how attractive they are capable of being made in the hands of a man of taste and genius . Take , for instance , the settlement of West Jersey by the Quakers . What a beautiful picture would it not PREFACE .
... New Jersey just enough to show , how attractive they are capable of being made in the hands of a man of taste and genius . Take , for instance , the settlement of West Jersey by the Quakers . What a beautiful picture would it not PREFACE .
Page x
... West Jersey under its Proprietary Government was , in fact , what Pennsylva- nia was only in name , a pure Quaker Commonwealth . It may be safely affirmed , that William Penn himself had more to do in moulding the institutions of West ...
... West Jersey under its Proprietary Government was , in fact , what Pennsylva- nia was only in name , a pure Quaker Commonwealth . It may be safely affirmed , that William Penn himself had more to do in moulding the institutions of West ...
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... New Jersey is to be viewed under a proprietary government , as a Colony , and as a State . It is to the period which preceded the sur- render , and when East and West Jersey were un- der distinct proprietary governments , that we are ...
... New Jersey is to be viewed under a proprietary government , as a Colony , and as a State . It is to the period which preceded the sur- render , and when East and West Jersey were un- der distinct proprietary governments , that we are ...
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... West Jersey , was in the habit of dispensing jus- tice " sitting , " says the historian , " on the stumps The costume worn by the judges prior to the Revolution , was probably assumed by them immediately after the Surrender , when they ...
... West Jersey , was in the habit of dispensing jus- tice " sitting , " says the historian , " on the stumps The costume worn by the judges prior to the Revolution , was probably assumed by them immediately after the Surrender , when they ...
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... West New Jersey , thus discourses irreverently of the Profession : 66 Of Lawyers and Phy- sicians I shall say nothing , because this country is very peaceable and healthy ; long may it so continue , and never have occasion for the ...
... West New Jersey , thus discourses irreverently of the Profession : 66 Of Lawyers and Phy- sicians I shall say nothing , because this country is very peaceable and healthy ; long may it so continue , and never have occasion for the ...
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Act of Parliament administration Amboy Attorney Bench Bergen Burlington Cape-May Causes charge Chief Justice Colonies Commission Commissioners for Trade Constable Constitution Cornbury's Coun Council County Courts Court of Chancery Court of Common Court of Judicature Court of Sessions Court-house Daniel Coxe Declaration Defendant East Elizabethtown England Execution Forty Shillings fourth Monday fourth Tuesday Freehold Government Governor Hunter Grand Jury Grants and Concessions held hereby further Ordain House Impowered Indictment Inhabitants James Kinsey Jeremiah Basse Judges Judgment land lawyers Lewis Morris Lord Cornbury Loving Subjects Mompesson Morris New-York Newark Ordain and Direct Peace Penn Pennsylvania Perth-Amboy Pinhorne Proprietors Province of New-Jersey Province of Nova-Cæsarea publick Quakers Reign respective County Robert Hunter Morris says second Monday second Tuesday Smith's N. J. Supreme Court thereof third Monday third Tuesday thought fit Thursday next ensuing tion Trade and Plantations vince West Jersey Whereas William York