New Jersey Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

'''English in West Jersey'''. New Englanders settled in what is now Salem, Gloucester, New Jersey in 1641. But the rival Dutch and Swedes destroyed the fort and sent the English to New Amsterdam in 1643.<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>Arthur H. Buffington, "New England and the Western Fur Trade, 1629-1675" ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KTQTAAAAYAAJ Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts]'' 18 (1917): 168 digitized by Google, 2007. "Regardless of the rights of the Dutch and the Swedes, two large tracts of land were purchased in southern New Jersey, and another tract on the future site of Philadelphia. The colony of New Haven extended its jurisdiction over this territory and lent the Company its full support. A settlement was made the same year [1641] at Varkens Kill (Salem, New Jersey), but as it was below the Dutch and Swedish posts and therefore unfavorably situated for the fur trade, a trading post was erected the next year near the mouth of the Schuylkill and above the rival posts. So seriously did this new post interfere with trade that the Dutch, probably with the aid of the Swedes, destroyed the fort and took away the settlers to Manhattan. The settlement at Varkens Kill was not disturbed, but it amounted to little. Some of the settlers perished of disease, some straggled back to New Haven, and a few stayed on, submitting themselves to Swedish rule."</ref> A group of English Quakers (Friends) led by John Fenwick began settling the east bank of the Delaware River at Salem in 1675. In 1677 Quakers from London and Hull, Yorkshire, settled New Beverly (now Burlington). In about 1681, Quakers from Ireland settled on Newton Creek, south of Burlington. There were at least 1,400 Quakers in West Jersey by this time.