Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint)

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1331933374
ISBN-13
9781331933373
Category
Reference
Pages
756
Language
English
Published
2015-07-21
Author
William Nelson

Description

Excerpt from Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 11 In submitting this volume of the New Jersey Archives to the public, the Committee venture the opinion that it will prove by no means the least important and interesting of the series. In its character, it is unique. No similar volume has been previously published in America, if anywhere in the world. No like picture of the manners and customs of a people, of the events and themes uppermost in men's minds, of the daily happenings, the political and religious controversies, as viewed from every standpoint, has ever been given of any American community. Hampered as they were by an odious and vexatious censorship, nevertheless the Colonial newspapers vividly mirror to us the popular life of their day. We can trace in their pages, too, the gradual evolution of the press toward a broader freedom, as their news items expand from the merest mention of ship news, runaway servants and foreign events, to chronicles of the movements of the Governors, the doings of the Legislatures, and finally aspire even to criticisms (at first in the cautious guise of communications) upon the ruling powers. This development of the liberty of the press evidenced the growing independence of popular sentiment in the Colonies. In New Jersey, such independence was greatly fostered by the constant friction between the Council of Proprietors, and the yeomanry who either questioned the title of the Proprietors, or who, in any event, were restive under the exaction of yearly quit-rents. The Proprietors were so closely identified with the Royal Government that when the people became accustomed to resist the former, they found it easy to dispute the right of a foreign King to control their affairs. 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.

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