Excerpt from Illustrated History of the Town of Hammonton: With an Account of Its Soil, Climate and Industries The plan of peaceable intercourse and understanding with the Indians, adopted by Penn in Pennsylvania, was applied to New Jersey, and although enjoying a land tenure running through deeds from Carteret, and the Duke of York, back to the Royal Charles, there was an honest assumption that King Charles had granted titles to lands he did not actually own, and to use a modern expression, was not able to deliver the goods he had conveyed, while the native Indians stood in the way by the right of possession. Accordingly Penn and his associate trustees, through accredited agents, proceeded to back up their title from King Charles by title from Indian chiefs. As this work was accomplished, settlements began and progressed, colonies taking up land at Salem and Bur lingtou, and founding in earnest the province of West Jersey. These first settlers were mostly members of the Society of Friends, and had no trouble in peaceably occupying the soil they had secured. County lines were established, and wide extent given to these subdivisions of the West Jersey domain. Salem, Gloucester and Burlington were the first counties established. The county of Gloucester was first laid out in 1677, and em braced the territory now included in the counties of Camden, Atlantic and Gloucester. The present county of Atlantic was not organized until 1837, and had been in existence but nineteen years when the new town of Hammonton received its first impetus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.