this edit not in R.D. THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIES IN AMERICA BY JOHN FISKE Nieuw Nederlant is een seer schoon aengenaem gesont en lustigh lantschap ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK, 1656. For I must needs tell you, if we miscarry it will be our own fault; we WILLIAM PENN, 1679. BOSTON AND NEW YORK The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1900 CONTENTS. Peaceful transfer of New Netherland to English rule Admirable character of Governor Nicolls . Exodus from New Haven to New Jersey Robert Treat and Abraham Pierson Constitutional troubles in New Jersey Lord Berkeley sells out his interest to a party of Quakers Nicolls returns to England, and is succeeded by Francis Abolition of the distinction between great and small burgh- ers The first mail on the American continent, monthly between 24 |