Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-05

veyed his interests to John, Lord
Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
ssthe said tract of land to be called
Nova Cesarea or New Jersey, in COM
pliment to Sir George Carteret, who
had defended the Isle of Wight against
the Long Parliament The nominal
consideration IN this z ant was TIN
shillings," about two dollars and fifty
cents of our money, and an annual
rent of one pepper corn to be paid on
the day of the nativity of st. John the
Baptist, if demanded 1kThe true in
centive for this grant was the desire
to reward the grantees for their dis
tinguished loyalty during the Civil
War Carteret was the last comman-
der within the circuit of the British
Isles to lower the royal standard,
(n) (o}. He had been in exile with
the King, and after the downfall OF
Cromwell, he was raised to the peer
age by Charles the Second
The Duke of York by this deed
granted and conveyed to Berkeley and
Carteret, "and their heirs and assigns
forever, all that tract of land adja-
cent to New England, and lying and
being to the westward of Long Island
and Manhattan Island, and bounded
on the east part by the main sea and
Tpart by Hudson river, and hath upon
the west Delaware bay or river, and
eXtendeth southwark to the main ocean
as far as Cape May, at the mouth of
Delaware bay, and to the northward as
I far as the northermost branch of the
said bay or river of Delaware, which
is in Al degrees and 40 minutes of
latitude, and crosseth over thence in a
straight to Hudson's river in Al de-
| grees of latitude which said tract of
land is hereafter to be called Nova
Cesarea or New Jersey; and also all
rivers, mines, minerals, woods, fish
| ings, hawkings, huntings, and fowl
ings, anj all other royalties, profits,
commodities and Entertainments what
soever to the said lands and prem
ises belonging" etc. (o).
In 1865 the first English emigrants
came over in the ship Phillip, arriving
at The Hills" opposite Staten IS
! land in August. When Governor Car
teret arrived on the site of his new
capital, he found four families as the
nucleus for his settlement, and he
named it Elizabethtown, in honor of
Sir George Carteret's wife, Elizabeth.
This was the first English settlement
in East Jersey. (n).
Governor Carteret had brought with
him copies of the Concessions and
Agreements of the Lord Proprietors, :
and agents were dispatched with them
into New England, and as result
! three new settlements were made by
| the New Englanders, pne called Piscat-
away on the Raritan river, (near
New Brunswick), another at Wood
| bridge. in 1866, which was named after
their late pastor, the Rev. John Wood
| bridge; the third settlement came
| from Connecticut and having purchas-
| ed of the Indians a tract embracing
! the present township of Newark,
| Springfield, Livingston, Orange,
Bloomfield and Caldwell, they built a
town on the Passaic river, which was
first named Milford, but two years
later with other arrivals, came an aged
| Congregational minister, Abraham
Pierson. In his honor the name was
changed to Newark, after the town on
the Yarrow in England, where he had
been ordained At a salary of $50 a
year he was the faithful pastor of the
colony until his death. M.
March Is, 1878, Lord Berkeley be-
ing disappointed in the financial re,
suit of his American investment, CON
veyed all his interests in West Jer-
sey to two English Quakers, John
Fenwick and Edward Byllynge for the
sum of $1,000. (n).
| About this time New Jersey was
wrested from the English by the
Dutch, but by the Treaty of West.
minister il 1874, it was ceded back
to the King of England by it's Dutch
captors. A new grant was given by
the King to the Duke of York, and by
| the Duke to Sir George Carteret, and
the grantees of Lord Berkeley. (n).
Trouble arising between Fenwick
and Byllygne as to the equitable di
vision of their purchase, William
Penn was called upon to arbitrate, and
as result of his labors, Fenwick was
| given one-tenth as his share (Which
comprised the land in the old county
of Salem). Soon after Byllynge be
veyed to William Penn, Gawen
Laurie and Nicholas Lucas, as trus
tees for his creditors. (n).
4 HTlOT 10 lulS time, ana before
Berkeley had assigned his interest to
Fenwick and Byllynge. the two pro
prietors Berkeley and Carteret had
agreed to a division of their interests
all the land east of line drawn from
Barnegat creek to the Rancocas be
ing assigned to Carteret, and the land
west of that line to Berkeley, and this
dividing line was mentioned in the sec
ond grant from the Duke of York
the proprietors. (a) en-.
I 1t was not, however, till July 18th
| 1876, that formal partition of New
Jersey was made between Carterei
and the Quaker proprietors. ut EN-
braced all the territory lying east oil
line, which starting at point on the
i Atlantic coast on the east side of Lit
i tie Egg Harbor inlet, ran northwest
erly to point in the Delaware river
few miles below Minisink island
in Sussex county. This line crossed