OFFICERS

OF THE

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

ELECTED 1846.

HON. JOSEPH C. HORNBLOWER, LL. D., PRESIDENT, Newark. ROBERT G. JOHNSON, Esq., 1st VICE PRESIDENT, Salem.

WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, Newark.

JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, RECORDING SECRETARY, Newark.

THOMAS J. STRYKER, TREASURER, Trenton.

THOMAS GORDON, LIBRARIAN, Trenton.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

REV. DANIEL V. McLEAN, Freehold.

REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D., Elizabethtown.
WILLIAM B. KINNEY, Newark.

ARCHER GIFFORD, Newark.
REV. ELI F. COOLEY, Trenton.

RICHARD S. FIELD, Princeton.

A. BRUYN HASBROUCK, LL. D., New Brunswick.
RT. REV. GEO. W. DOANE, D. D., LL. D., Burlington.
ELIAS B. D. OGDEN, Paterson.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS.

HON. WILLIAM A. DUER, LL. D.
REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D.
CHARLES KING,

REV. ELI F. COOLEY,

JOHN S. CONDIT, M. D.

WILLIAM B. KINNEY,

WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD.

NEW JERSEY,

from the Map of A.Vanderdonck, 1656.

Lifh, of G&W.Endicott

UNDER

THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENTS:

A

NARRATIVE OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE PROVINCE, UNTIL THE SURRENDER OF THE GOVERNMENT

TO THE CROWN IN

1702.

DRAWN PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES.

BY WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

66 THE MODEL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF EAST NEW-JERSEY, IN AMERICA,'

BY GEORGE SCOT, OF PITLOCHIE.

NOW FIRST REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1685.

PUBLISHED BY THE

NEW-JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

1846.
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