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Title: Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Mullin, Edward J Lundy, F. L Fitzgerald, T. F. (Thomas F.) Gosson, Louis C Gribbins, J. Joseph New Jersey. Legislature
Subjects: New Jersey. Legislature New Jersey. Legislature Administrative agencies Local government
Publisher: Newark, N.J. : M.R. Dennis & Co.
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
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l communities, andmainly occupied land in Newark, Elizabeth and upon thenorth shore of Monmouth county. The valley of the Dela-ware remained unsettled. The Calvinists brought intoEast Jersey distinctive views upon religious and civil mat-ters. Early legislatures punished many crimes by death,the penalties being similar to those of the Jewish dispen-sation, while the town-meeting strengthened the indi-vidual action of the small communities. There was anintense individualism in every phase of political and relig-ious development, the life of the people centering aroundthe church and the school house, the head of both, as inNew England, being the minister. In 1676 a division of the interests of Carteret and Berke-ley occurred. In the meantime Berkeley had disposed ofhis rights to a company of English Quakers, a conflict hadensued, and to establish the claims of all parties concerned,the two colonies of lilast and West Jersey came intoexistence. A line was drawn from a point in Little Egg
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HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY. « Harbor to the Delaware Water Gap, Berkeley and hisassigns retaining West Jersey as their moiety, Carteretobtaining East Jersey. By Berkeleys transfer the dominant influence in WestJersey was that of the Society of Friends. Salem wassettled in 1675, Burlington, Gloucester and the site of Tren-ton about five years later, while within ten years there-after the shore communities of Cape May and Tucker-ton came into existence. The Society of Friends estab-lished in West Jersey a series of communities in whichthe life of the people was different from that of East Jer-sey. As East Jersey resembled New England in civil gov-ernment, so West Jersey resembled Virginia. The politicaland social centres of the large plantations were the shire-towns, slave owning was common, a landed aristocracywas established, prominent families intermarried, andunder the advice of William Penn and his friends goodfaith was kept with the Indians. Capital punishment waspractically unknown a

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