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Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey (1886)
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey - 1886 Author:New Jersey Historical Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Address and Petition of the Assembly of New Jersey to the King, praying relief from Acts of Parliament imposing a duty on them for the purpose of raising a reven... more »ue. [From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 178 (191).] Most Gracious Sovereign, We your Majesty's loyal Subjects, the Representa- tives of your Colony of New Jersey, confiding in your Majesty's paternal Affection for your People, humbly implore Permission to approach the Throne, and to present our Supplications in Behalf of ourselves and our Constituents, your Majesty's faithful and afflicted Subjects. Before that happy Period, in which the Empire of the British Dominions was by the favour of Divine Providence, for the Felicity of those Dominions, and of Europe in general, established in your illustrious House, our Ancestors with the Consent of the Crown removed from their native Laud, then abounding in all Blessings, but that perfect Security of Liberty, and that merciful Spirit of Administration, which renders your royal Family so justly dear to your remotest Subjects ventured with their helpless Relatives through a vast Ocean, and trusted themselves with their tender Companions to the inhospitable and unknown Wilderness of this new World, the Horrors of which no Consideration could render tolerable, but the Prospect of enjoying here that complete Freedom, which Britons never thought could be purchased at too great a Price. The Subjects thus emigrating, brought with them as inherent in their Persons all the Rights and Liberties of Natural born Subjects within the Parent State,In Consequence of these a Government was formed, Under which they have been as constantly exercised and enjoyed by the Inhabitants, and repeatedly and solemnly recognized and confirmed, by your royal Predecessors and the Legisla...« less