GOODSPEED HISTORIES – Page 179 – New Jersey History and Genealogy

The Carolina Constitutions

May 20, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in West New Jersey Tags: legislation, proprietors

It has been some time since my last post, so it might help to skim over the previous post before continuing with this one.

The Carolina Constitution of 1669 came out four years after the Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors of East New Jersey. Undoubtedly, Shaftesbury and Locke were acquainted with it. But when Berkeley and Carteret became the first proprietors of New Jersey in 1664, they probably studied the first Carolina Constitution of 1663 before publishing their Concessions and Agreements. Berkeley and Carteret knew what was happening in Carolina because they were among the eight Lords Proprietors of the colony, so we can assume there was a lot of cross-pollination.

Coxe and the Colonies, Part One

May 2, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in West New Jersey Tags: Daniel Coxe, land titles, proprietors

As part of the 17th-century appetite for discovery and learning, attention was turned to the blank spaces on the maps of the world, and the opportunities they offered for increased knowledge, as well as increased riches. The New World colonies caught the attention of Daniel Coxe well before he invested in West New Jersey.

The Radical Daniel Coxe

April 22, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in West New Jersey Tags: Daniel Coxe, England, politics

After a few years spent mixing with the virtuosi in London and playing with volatile salts in his laboratory, Daniel Coxe bethought himself to get a wife. He married Rebecca Coldham, the daughter of John Coldham, Esq. of Tooting Graveney, London. I’m not kidding; Tooting Graveney, actually has its own page in Wikipedia. It is considered a suburb of London, on the south side of the Thames, and was probably quite rural in the 1670s. John Coldham was an Alderman of London and warden of the Grocers Company, from which I conclude that he was a successful merchant with political connections, an ideal father-in-law for an ambitious man.