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Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. (from old catalog) Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: New Jersey -- History. (from old catalog) New Jersey -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) New Jersey -- History, Local. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., J. W. Barber
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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acquaintance. All our people are very well, and in a hopeful way tolive much better than ever they did; and not only so, but to provide well for their posterity.They improve their lands, and have good crops ; and if our friends and countrymen come,they will find better reception than we had by far at first, before the country was settledas now it is. I know not one among the people that desires to be in England again —I mean since settled. I wonder at our Yorkshire people, that they had rather live inservitude, and work hard all the year, and not be three-pence the better at the years end,than stir out of the chimney-corner, and transport themselves to a place where, with thelike pains, in two or three years they might know better things. I never repented my coming hither, nor yet remembered thy arguments and outcryagainst New Jersey with regret. I live as well to my content, and in as great plentyas ever I did; and in a far more likely way to get an estate. Though I hear some have
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ANCIENT MAP OF NEW JERSEY.Constructed from Provincial Maps published in London.Figures 1,1, Line claimed by the Proprietors of New Jersey as theirNorthern limit; 2, 2, Jurisdiction line between New York and New Jersey;3, 3, the Northern line as contended in favor of the Crown and the Pro-vince of New York. The two maps from which the above is constructed were evidently drawn with much care,the oldest of which was published on June 23d, 1755, by Lewis Kvans. according ti> Act ofParliament, sold in Pall-mall by R. Dodsley, Londun, and by the Author in Philadi-lphia;it is entitled A General Map of the Middle British Colonia, viz: Mariland, Delaware,Pensilvania, New J.rney, tJonnecticut and Rhode Island, tA Aauanithuonigy, thf countryof the Coufidt-rate Indians, &;c. Ac (A copy nf this, printed on satin, is now in the col-lections of the New Jersey Hist. Soc. at Newark.) The other map, from wliich the division*are copied, was drawn by Thomas Jeffeos, (ieoerapher to his .Majesty, wa

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