Identifier: industriesofnewj06edwa (find matches)
Title: Industries of New Jersey.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard, ed.
Subjects: Industries--New Jersey--Directories. Manufacturing industries--New Jersey--Directories. Manufactures--New Jersey.
Publisher: New York : Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ch again.st the English ; and for some years the two succeeded in preventingEnglish settlements upon the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, and within the territories of New Netherlands andNew Sweden; but the British government had only awaited its own convenience, without relinquishing itsso-called claims, and in 1664, Charles II. issued a patent to his brother, the Duke of York, gi\ing him the entiredistrict from New England to Maryland, and to make good the patent sent an expeuition to seize the territoryceded. The Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, Petrus Stuyvesant, was a brave and accomplished soldier,but he was utterly unable to withstand the British fleet and land force, and wisely surrendered without thefiring of a gun. New Amsterdam (New York), the seat of government of the entire Dutch possessions on thecontinent, having been surrendered by the governor, the forts and settlements on the Delaware, of course,could offer no resistance, and were likewise seized without difficulty. lUIIl
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 35 p5^;^^;^ y^^, .4^ Thus New Jersey passed under British rule, together with New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania. In1673, the Dutch temporarily recovered their part of the territory, but it was all finally yielded up to GreatHiitain in the treaty of that year, and the British government continued in undisputed possession until therevolution. During the Dutch and Swedish occupancy, NewJersey had no separate territorial recognition, but wasregarded simply by the Dutch as a part of NewNetherland, while the settlements of the Swedes werepart of New Sweden. So, too, the patent of theDuke of York comprehended a vast district, extend-ing from Maryland on the south to the St. Lawrenceon the north, and from New England on the east,without detined boundary on fhe west. The entiretract was known only as the province of New York.On the 23d and 24th days of June, 1664, the recordstell us that the Duke of York did in considerationof a competent sum of money, grant and conveyun

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