An American history . aGerman merchant named Jacob Leisler, who appropriated to himself the author-ity laid down by Nicholson, and refused to surrender the fort on the Batteryto King Williams accredited agent before the arrival of the new governor. Forthis obstinate conduct Leisler was hanged as a traitor, although he protested thathis only purpose in holding the reins of power was to prevent the Catholics inthe colony from getting control of the government and betraying it to the Frenchin Canada. He had done nothing more treasonable than had the leaders ofthe glorious Revolution in Massachuse
An American history . aGerman merchant named Jacob Leisler, who appropriated to himself the author-ity laid down by Nicholson, and refused to surrender the fort on the Batteryto King Williams accredited agent before the arrival of the new governor. Forthis obstinate conduct Leisler was hanged as a traitor, although he protested thathis only purpose in holding the reins of power was to prevent the Catholics inthe colony from getting control of the government and betraying it to the Frenchin Canada. He had done nothing more treasonable than had the leaders ofthe glorious Revolution in Massachusetts. 62 The Establishment of the English governor sent by King William III arrived in 1691, he broughtorders to restore the popular assembly which James II had sup-pressed, and from that time on the colony enjoyed the privilegeof self-government. New York grew slowly. At the time of the foundation ofour national government it was only one of the small states as compared with Massachusetts, Virginia, and The Battery, New York, at the End of the Seventeenth Century The immense Empire State of to-day, with its nine millioninhabitants, is the growth of the last three generations. It be-gan when the Erie Canal, and later the New York Central Rail-road, made the Hudson and Mohawk valleys the main highwayto the Great Lakes and the growing West. 72. The set- Even before the Duke of York had ousted the Dutch magis- tlement and ^ ,. c -y ? •, ?,,, history of the trates trom his new provmce, he granted the lower part of it. Jerseys fj-^^jj ^^ Hudson to the Delaware, to two of his friends, who were also members of the Carolina board of proprietors, Lord Berkeley, brother of the irritable governor of Virginia, and Sir The English Colonies 63 George Carteret, formerly governor of the island of Jersey inthe English Channel. In honor of Carteret the region was namedNew Jersey (June, 1664). The proprietors of New Jersey im-mediately published concessions for their colony, — a
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