New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . FromMorristown there were roads to Hackensack andto Woodbridge. From what is now Jersey Citya road ran along the Palisades to Haverstraw, andthence north, while another highway extendedthrough Schraalenburg and Eingwood. The con-gested centers north of the Karitan and east ofthe hill country, including Metuchen, ScotchPlains, Springfield, Elizabethtown, Rahway, New-ark, and the region now known as Paterson, werethoroughly united. Upon the public highways there were somehighwaymen and not a few horse thieves. Of the ONY AND
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New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . FromMorristown there were roads to Hackensack andto Woodbridge. From what is now Jersey Citya road ran along the Palisades to Haverstraw, andthence north, while another highway extendedthrough Schraalenburg and Eingwood. The con-gested centers north of the Karitan and east ofthe hill country, including Metuchen, ScotchPlains, Springfield, Elizabethtown, Rahway, New-ark, and the region now known as Paterson, werethoroughly united. Upon the public highways there were somehighwaymen and not a few horse thieves. Of the ONY AND AS A STATE 237 latter Tom Bell, a noted character in his day andthe hero of many exploits, is best remembered.But the State appears to have been singularlyfree from depredations of this class of crim-inals, although the opportunities offered themwere abundant. The prompt and efficacious ad-ministration of criminal law, and the severe pen-alties prescribed for such offenses, acted as a re-straint upon this element and led to few but thor-oughly effective convictions.. A NEW JERSEY 8TAGB COACH. CH A P T E R XIVCurrency and Counterfeiting To THE Algonkain ludian must becredited the establishment of thefirst medium of exchange withinthe boundaries of the State of NewJersey. When the Dutch andSwedes came to the valleys of the Hudson andDelaware they found the Lenni-Lenape and kin-dred peoples possessed of a money which, whilecrude, was satisfactory—so satisfactory, indeed, that the settlers provided, by custom and law, for its use among themselves and in their tradingrelations with neighboring tribes. This moneywas the wampum, —the shell money of the peltrydealer and of the signers of treaties. In suchesteem were these belts held that early in the set-tlement of Burlington a negro woman wasbrought before the Court for stealing and de^facing ye Indian Belt psented by ye SachemT^a^ye Govnor. ^ Made from shells of bivalves, usually ta^^eomon clam, wampum-mints embraced any region inwh