of weh I do wel approve and according to your desire I wil alsoo Endeavour that Satisfaction maij be given by yo Indians to ye owners to wch End I have once more thought fit that ye Indian Sachem be summoned to appeare before me to give me satisfaction about it, and that ye Messenger doth signify to him that I do much wonder that all ye Chiefe Sachems hereabouts as also those of yo Mohacks have bene here to present themselves unto me and that he onlij Remains Defective therein wherefore I would willingly Speake wth him to know ye Reason; and that I promise him & his Company freely to Passe & Repas without any Molestation you may alsoo give Order what goods he hath Tendred or yett shall tender to Restore y people maij Receive from him and lett an acct be sent me what y losse maij be of ye goods wch still are wanting. You are also Required to send hether bij ye first opportunity the armes & other goods according to Inventorij formerlij belonging to ye Late Gouve rn's Cartrett and to Cause this Inclosed order of arrest to be published in your Severall Townes and to order ye severall Clarkes to return an acct thereof unto you for to be presented unto me. And lett Mr Hopkins Examin uppon what Conditions ye Tennants are Seated uppon the plantations of Capt" Carterett and acct thereof Returned unto me; not Else at Present but that Your Loving ffriend A: Colve.*

I am,

It would thus appear, that the Indians, with their Sachem, still continued in the neighborhood, and, at times, were not a little troublesome-having, just before this date, carried off a considerable amount of property, and refused to restore it. What the result was is not recorded.

As an illustration of the Dutch Rule at this period, the following Proclamation of Nov. 15, 1673, applicable to this town as well as every other part of New Netherland, is worthy of attention:

Trusty & Welbeloved, Concidering the Manifold Blessings & favours wch the Bountifull & Merciful god hath bene pleazed graciously to Bestow uppon this Province and the Inhabitants thereof amongst wch is to be Esteemed beyond all others the free & pure worshipp of god wch Blessing together wth all others ought Not only to drawe & oblidge us to dutifull thanckfulnesse but also to meeknesse & Rependance because of our Manifold sins & Transgressions to the End the sd Blessings & favours of our god may be Continued towards us & this People & Country be free from this weldeserved Wroth and Indignation, Know Yee therefore that wee have thought it Necessary & do by these Presents order & Proclaime an universall day of fast humiliation & thancksgiveing wch shall be held wthin this Province on the first wednesday on every mounth & begunn

*N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 633.

on the first wesnesday of the next ensuing month of Decemb' being Second day of the sd Month, & soo Alsoo uppon Every first wednesday of ye month thereunto Ensuing; And to the End the s day of humiliation & thankxgiveing may bee the better put in practice & due Execution, Wee do hereby strictly prohibite & forbid on the sa day of humiliation Thankxgiving all manner of Labour & exercizings of hunting ffishing gaming Excesse in drincking and the Lyke & all Inkeepers and ordinaris not to Retayle any Licquors or drinke uppon Penalty of Corporal Punishment, To the true p'formance of wch wee do hereby stricktly order & Comand all Magistrates officers & Justices of this Province & prolecute against the Transgressions according to the Tenn': thereof and to Cause this Proclamation to bee published in due time and place, Soo we Rec. ommand you to the protextion of the Almighty godt; Antony Colve.*

An Assembly, composed of "the Schout and Magistrates of Achter Kol, to make laws and orders," was held here, commencing on the 18th of November, 1673. The ordinances enacted were few and simple, pertaining mostly to questions of morality and religion. They were submitted to the Dutch authorities for ratification. At the same time, Schout Ogden requested, that the bail-bonds of Meeker and Tomson, in the hands of the late Marshal, Sam. Moore, be put into the hands of Ogden, and the records of the late government, deposited with Secretary Hopkins. The records were put in charge of Hopkins, and Meeker and Tomson were told to bring the matter into court. Moore was ordered, by the court of "deputed councillors," "to deliver up the bail-bond executed by " Meeker and Tomson, "on the 26th June, 1673, to Capt John Berry then Deputy Governor," in the case of Wm. Pardon; on his refusal, Mr. Ogden was required to demand the said bail-bond of Sam. Moore; and, in case of default, to arrest him, and send him to the fort at New York.t

For more than a year, the land was at rest. The people lived on good terms with the authorities at Fort Orange, and were secured in the enjoyment of their lands and privileges. Ogden was virtually Governor of the English towns in N. Jersey, and the government was administered very

*N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 658.

† Alb. Records, XXII 875; XXIII. 19. Whitehead's E. Jersey, pp. 61, 2. N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 682, 3, 728.

much after the fashion of New England. Their old troublers had either left the town, or were kept in quiet, shorn of all authority. The people had it their own way.

But the Dutch rule was soon terminated. A treaty of peace was signed, at Westminster, Eng., Feb. 9, 167, providing for the mutual restoration of all captured territory. Possession of these provinces was retained by the Dutch, until they were superseded by the English, in November following.

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CHAPTER IX.

A. D. 1674-1681.

Restoration of English Rule-Berkeley sells West Jersey - Sir G. Carteret sole Proprietor of E. Jersey - Return of Gov. Carteret - Stringent measures to subdue the People — Requires them to take Patents for their Lands— Old Conflict renewed - Compromise proposed, but rejected by Carteret Schedule of Surveys - Militia System - Legislature at E. T.- EnactmentsPrices Act of Oblivion Thanksgiving Day - Meeker indemnified - Inns regulated Marking of Cattle-Troubles with Gov. Andros of N. Y.-Carteret seized, and imprisoned at N. Y.—Tried and acquitted — Legislature at E. T., again — They decline the jurisdiction of Andros - Marriage of CarAndros recalled-Carteret reinstated - Legislature meet againCollision with Carteret - He dissolves them-Death of John Ogden.

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CAPT. PHILIP CARTERET, after an absence of more than two years, returned to his old home, in November, 1674. He came over from England, in the same vessel with his kinsman, Col. Edmund Andros, Governor of New York, arriving Oct. 31, 1674. Berkeley had sold, March 18, 167, his half of the province for £1000, to John Fenwick, in trust for Edward Byllinge, of the Society of Friends. Sir George Carteret had thus become the sole proprietor of the eastern moiety of the province, which was confirmed to him, June 13, by royal mandate, requiring obedience, from the people of the territory, " to the laws and government" of Sir George, as having "the sole power under" the king, "to settle and dispose of the country, upon such terms and conditions as he shall think fit;" as broad a basis for despotic power as could be desired. A new patent for the whole territory was given, June 29, to the Duke of York; by whom East Jersey was reconveyed, July 29, to Sir George Carteret, "in as full and ample manner as the same " had been granted himself.

The "Concessions," so remodeled as to give, to the Governor, the control of the Legislature, and deprive the people of all original jurisdiction, were re-issued, July 31, and the same day, Capt. Philip Carteret was newly commissioned as Governor.*

Immediately after his arrival, Carteret proceeded to Bergen and called about him his old Council, by whom, of course, he was heartily welcomed. A summons was issued at once, Nov. 6, calling upon "the inhabitants, by their Deputies, to meet for to hear his Majesty's Letter, the Governor's Commission, and those Instructions and Orders read that the Governor brought over with him." Deputies were "sent by all the towns except Shrewsbury;" before whom the papers. were read and the Governor's policy set forth. The spirit of that policy may be gathered by what the Council wrote to Sir George Carteret on the 7th of November:

We are very sensible of the disorders and troubles that have happened amongst us, occasioned by some turbulent spirits, which hath cost us much time, labour and pains to redress, and brought your Honour's Orders, Desires and Instructions to Perfection, had not the Dutch unhappily come in and nipt us in the bud, to whom these old, turbulent people were more willing to submit, than to their lawful King and Lord.†

In a Proclamation issued by the Governor and Council, dated at Elizabeth Town, Dec. 11, they speak of "the late past distractions of times," as

Occasioned first by the meeting of several male-content inhabitants, and then by the arrival of the Dutch forces in our neighbor Colony, giving opportunity to those seditious spirits, to cover their former guilt with the mantle of treason.

They further say:

We find ourselves not obliged to countenance the commissionating any person or persons, to any office military or civil, who have not patented their lands, &c., nor to yield the privileges of a Corporation to any otherwise qualified, than the said Orders of our said Proprietor doth allow.

Notice is thereupon given, "that the Surveyor General, or his substitute shall attend and remain at Elizabeth Town from * Whitehead's E. Jersey, pp. 63-5. Mulford's N. J., pp. 159-162. Leaming and Spicer, pp 46-9. ↑ E. T. Bill, pp. 40, 1. E. J. Rocords, III. 98, 9.