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Excerpt from Industries of New Jersey, Vol. 6: Hudson, Passaic, and Bergen Counties
Thus New Jersey passed under British rule, together with New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania. In 1673, the Dutch temporarily recovered their part of the territory, but it was all finally yielded up to Great Britain in the treaty of that year, and the British government continued in undisputed possession until the revolution. During the Dutch and Swedish occupancy, New Jersey had no separate territorial recognition, but was regarded simply by the Dutch as a part of New Netherland, while the settlements of the Swedes were part of New Sweden. So, too, the patent of the Duke of York comprehended a vast district, extend ing from Maryland on the south to the St. Lawrence on the north, and from New England on the east, without defined boundary on the west. The entire tract was known only as the province of New York. On the 23d and 24th days of June, 1664, the records tell us that the Duke of York did in consideration of a competent sum of money, grant and convey unto Lord John Berkeley, Baron of Stratton, and. Sir George Carteret, of Saltrum, in the county of Devon, ' to their heirs and assigns forever, all that tract of land adjacent to New England, west of Long Island and Manhattan's Island, and bounded on the east by the main sea, a part of Hudson's River; on the west by the Delaware Bay and River, extending southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and north by the northernmost branch of said bay and river of Delaware, which is in forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude, in a straight line to Hudson's River; said tract of land hereafter to be called Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey; and also all rivers, mines, minerals, woods, fishings, hawkings, huntings and fowlings; and all other royalties, profits, commodities and hereditaments what soever to the lands and premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances, in as full and ample a manner as the same is granted unto the Duke of York, by the before recited letters patent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
