New Englanders in a New Land
Newark in the Proprietary Period, 1666-1702
Series: CERES: Rutgers Studies in History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 13 October 2026
- ISBN 9781978846890
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 color and 2 B-W figures 700
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Long description:
New England Puritans from the former New Haven Colony settled Newark in 1666. Their fierce determination to establish scripture-based government in a close-knit township, with community control over admitting new inhabitants, often put them in direct conflict with New Jersey's proprietary government. Newark's egalitarian system for allocating land diverged sharply from the proprietors' headright approach, adapted from the West Indies and Carolina, that rewarded settler use of indentured servants and enslaved labor with larger distributions of land.
This study provides a fresh interpretation of the founding and settlement of Newark as a self-contained New England community, including their negotiations with Native Americans, formation of godly self-government, gradual allocation of township land, and introduction of slavery. To implement their New England way, Newarkers resisted the proprietary government to the point of rebellion, bringing into stark relief the inherent conflict between two sources of authority, one scriptural and community-based and the other royal and proprietary, and two systems of land distribution.
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Introduction
PART I
A New Township
1 Before Newark
2 True Owners of the Land
3 Godly Government
4 For the Good of the Town
5 First Settlers and Slavery
PART II
Contending with Proprietary Government
6 Seeds of Conflict
7 Rebellion
8 Reprieve
9 Hard Times
10 Transitions
11 Compromise
12 Turbulent Times
13 Change and Conflict
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Index
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