The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption of the Federal ConstitutionD. Fenton, 1834 - 339 páginas |
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... feet above the sea . Those hills , adjacent to the Ocean , are 310 feet above its level ; and stand where the waves formerly rolled , resting in some places on banks of oyster shells and other marine relics , blended with clay and ...
... feet above the sea . Those hills , adjacent to the Ocean , are 310 feet above its level ; and stand where the waves formerly rolled , resting in some places on banks of oyster shells and other marine relics , blended with clay and ...
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... feet long by 15 broad , divided into three apartments . The entrance and roof are low , the latter arched , and of soft rock , through which the water percolates ; the bottom is of loose sand . Sandy Hook , east of , and divided from ...
... feet long by 15 broad , divided into three apartments . The entrance and roof are low , the latter arched , and of soft rock , through which the water percolates ; the bottom is of loose sand . Sandy Hook , east of , and divided from ...
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... feet be- neath the surface , is a species of greenish blue earth , mixed with shells , and gene- rally known as marl . As this substance is of great importance to the agricultural interest of the section , some remarks on its physical ...
... feet be- neath the surface , is a species of greenish blue earth , mixed with shells , and gene- rally known as marl . As this substance is of great importance to the agricultural interest of the section , some remarks on its physical ...
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... feet , the best for arable land , and the grey sort for pasture . But that which is of a brownish colour , with blue veins , and small.lumps of chalk or limestone lying under stiff clays and very hard to dig , is most esteemed in ...
... feet , the best for arable land , and the grey sort for pasture . But that which is of a brownish colour , with blue veins , and small.lumps of chalk or limestone lying under stiff clays and very hard to dig , is most esteemed in ...
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... feet , its basis sand and shells like the shore of the sea . The whole was formerly covered with wood , of which some groves of cedar still remain , and bodies of trees but little decayed are frequently found at va- rious depths ...
... feet , its basis sand and shells like the shore of the sea . The whole was formerly covered with wood , of which some groves of cedar still remain , and bodies of trees but little decayed are frequently found at va- rious depths ...
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12 miles 15 dwellings 30 dwellings 9 miles acres Amboy Assembly bank Bergen Bordentown boundary bounded breadth Brook Brunswick Burlington canal Cape Centrally distant church clay colonies contains a tavern county tax court creek Cumberland Delaware bay Delaware river distilleries dollars Dutch Egg Harbour river feet flows Freehold fulling mill furnace Gloucester Gloucester co governor greatest length grist mills Hackensack hills horses and mules Hunterdon inhabitants iron land limestone loam manufacture marl Methodist miles S. E. Milleville Millstone river Monmouth Morris Morris canal Morristown mountain Musconetcong N. E. from W. C. neat cattle Newark officers Passaic river Patterson Pompton Pond Population in 1830 post-towns Presbyterian proprietaries province Raritan river ratables Rockaway river Salem sandy saw mills Schooley's mountain soil Somerset south branch stream surface Sussex t-ship t-ship contained tains taxables thence tion town township Trenton tributary turnpike road valley village West Jersey York
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Página 329 - States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several states such an act relative to this great object as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress assembled effectually to provide for the same...
Página 330 - That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May next, a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such...
Página 162 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court or general assembly of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament), and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice...
Página 179 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 168 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
Página 200 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 188 - That there shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this province in preference to another ; and that no protestant inhabitant of this colony shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil right, merely on account of his religious principles...
Página 141 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Página 24 - River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware *Bay, and to the northward as far as the...
Página 141 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.