How a Colony’s Disagreement Paved the Way for a City?
In 1662, Newark, NJ’s history began in Connecticut. It was during this period when New Haven Colony got absorbed by Connecticut Colony following orders from King Charles II. Puritans, founders of the New Haven colony, were displeased with this forced merger to their neighbors. Their colonists believed that members of Puritan’s church should be the only ones allowed for voting. Again, they felt that church members’ children could also be baptized. However, these rules were not a part of the constitution of this new colony. Determined for pursuing their theocracy, Puritans sent John Gregory & Robert Treat for meeting New Jersey’s new Royal Governor, Philip Carteret. They came up with a site near Elizabethtown and along Passaic River for their new location. In 1666, Treat and other Puritan settlers purchased that land directly from Hackensack Indians in exchange to goods, which mainly comprised of arms and ammunitions like gunpowder, axes, coats, pistols, guns, knives, swords, blankets, b
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