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Identifier: unitedstateshist00ridp (find matches)
Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York, The United States history co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as first royal governor of the separated province. The people of New Jersey were but little disturbed by the succes-sive Indian wars. The native tribes on this part of the American coastwere weak and timid. Had it not been for the cruelties of Kieft and thewrongs of other governors of New York, the peace of the middle colonieswould never have been broken. The province of New Jersey is speciallyinteresting as being the point where the civilization of New England metand blended with the civilization of the South. Here the institutions,manners and laws of the Pilgrims were first modified by contact with theless rigid habits and opinions of the people who came with Gosnold andSmith. The dividing line between East and West Jersey is also thedividing line between the austere Puritans of Massachusetts and thechivalrous cavaliers of Virginia. Happily, along this dividing line themen of peace, the followers of Penn and Barclay, came and dwelt as ifto subdue ill-will and make a Union possible.
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PENNSYLVANIA. 209 CHAPTER XXV. PENNSYLVANIA. THE Quakers were greatly encouraged with the success of their col-onies in West New Jersey. The prospect of establishing on thebanks of the Delaware a free State, founded on the principle of universalbrotherhood, kindled a new enthusiasm in the mind of William Penn.For more than a quarter of a century the Friends had been buffeted withshameful persecutions. Imprisonment, exile and proscription had beentheir constant portion, but had not sufficed to abate their zeal or toquench their hopes of the future. The lofty purpose and philanthropicspirit of Penn urged him to find for his afflicted people an asylum of rest.In June of 1680 he went boldly to King Charles, and petitioned for agrant of territory and the privilege of founding a Quaker commonwealthin the New World. The petition was seconded by powerful friends in Parliament.Lords North and Halifax and the earl of Sunderland favored the propo-sition, and the duke of York remembered a pledge

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