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GOVERNORS OF THE See also:STATE See also:History.—The most important See also:sources are: Documents See also:Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New See also:Jersey (Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1st See also:series), edited by W. A. See also:Whitehead, F. W. See also:Ricardo and W. See also:Nelson (26 vols., See also:Newark, 188o-19o3); Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey (Archives of the State of New Jersey, 2nd series; 2 vols., Trenton, 1901-1903); and Acts g the See also:General See also:Assembly of New Jersey from 1703-r761, reprinted by A. Learning and J. Spicer (See also:Somerville, New Jersey, 1881). For the See also:period of the Dutch See also:rule, see E. B. O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland (New See also:York, 1846) ; and See also:John Romeyn See also:Brodhead's History of the State of New York (2nd vol., New York, 1853, 1871); E. P.

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Tanner, The See also:Province of New Jersey (New York, 1908), the most thorough study of the period from 1664 to 1738; See also:Samuel See also:Smith's History of the See also:Colony of Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey (See also:Burlington, 1765; 2nd ed., Trenton, 1877), still one of the best accounts of the colonial period, and particularly valuable on See also:account of its copious extracts from the sources, many of which are no longer accessible; see, also, See also:William A. Whitehead's " The See also:English in See also:East and See also:West Jersey, 1664-1689 " (in vol. iii. of See also:Justin See also:Winsor's Narrative and See also:Critical History of See also:America). Among the monographic' contributions are See also:Austin See also:Scott's See also:Influence of the Proprietors in See also:Founding the State of New Jersey (See also:Baltimore, 1885) and H. S. Cooley's Study of See also:Slavery in New Jersey (Baltimore, 1896). Other useful contributions are A. D. Mellick, See also:Story of an Old See also:Farm; or, See also:Life in New Jersey in the 18th See also:Century (Somerville, New Jersey, 1889), full of interesting details; F. B. See also:Lee and others, New Jersey as a Colony and as a State (4 vols., with an additional See also:biographical See also:volume, New York, 1902, rather unevenly proportioned; and inaccurate as to details; W. J. See also:Mills, Historic Houses of New Jersey (See also:Philadelphia, 1902); William Nelson, The New Jersey See also:Coast in Three Centuries (2 vols., New York, 1902) ; See also:Isaac S.

Mulford, See also:

Civil and See also:Political History of New Jersey (Philadelphia, 1851) ; W. A. Whitehead, East Jersey under the Proprietary Governments (New Jersey See also:Historical Society Collections, vol. i., Newark, 1875) ; W. S. Stryker, See also:Official See also:Register of the See also:Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary See also:War (Trenton, 1872) ; W. E. Sackett, See also:Modern Battles of Trenton (Trenton, 1895), a political history of New Jersey from 1868 to1894, dealing especially with the railway controversies; John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical See also:Miscellany (2 vols., New York, 19o3-1906), containing data relating to the See also:settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey; R. S. See also:Field, The Provincial Courts of New Jersey; L. Q. C.

Elmer, The Constitution and See also:

Government of New Jersey (vols. iii. and vii. of New Jersey Historical Society Collections, Newark, 1849, 1872); and See also:David See also:Murray, History of See also:Education in New Jersey (No. 2 of Circulars of See also:Information issued by the See also:United States See also:Bureau of Education, See also:Washington, 1899).

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