42*> NEW-JERSEY. 



of any civil right, merely on account of their religious principles. 

 The most numerous religious societies are the Friends and Presbyte- 

 rians. 



Colleges. ...A college, called Nassau Hall, was established at the 

 town of Princeton, in this province, by governor Belcher, in 1746, 

 which has a power of conferring the same degrees as Oxford or 

 Cambridge. There are generally between eighty and a hundred stu- 

 dents here, who come from all parts of the continent, some even 

 from the extremities of it. There is another college at Brunswick, 

 called Queen's College, founded a little before the revolution, and in 

 considerable repute. There are also several academies. 



History. ...New-Jersey is part of that vast tract of land which, we 

 have observed, was given by king Charles II, to his brother James, 

 duke of York ; he sold it, for a valuable consideration, to lord Berke- 

 ley and sir George Cartaret (from which it received its present name, 

 because sir George had estates in the island of Jersey) and they again 

 to others, who, in the year 1702, made a surrender of ihe powers of 

 government to queen Anne, which she accepted j after which it be- 

 came a royal government, and remained under the British dominioa 

 until 1774. 



