Excerpt from Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey: One Hundred and Thirty First Session, 1907

Carteret and Berkeley, in granting a liberal frame of government and extolling the advantages of their colony so well located for agriculture, commerce, fishing and mining, attracted settlers not only from England, but from Scotland and New England, particularly Long Island and Connecticut. These planters were largely Calvinists, from Presbyterian and Congregational communities, and mainly occupied land in Newark, Elizabeth and upon the north shore of Monmouth county. The valley of the Dela ware remained unsettled. The Calvinists brought into East Jersey distinctive views upon religious and civil mat ters. Early legislatures punished many crimes by death, the penalties being similar to those of the Jewish dispen sation, while the town-meeting strengthened the indi vidual action of the small communities. There was an intense individualism in every phase of political and relig ious development, the life of the people centering around the church and the school house, the head of both, as in New England, being the minister.

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