[170] _The Representation of New Netherland_ (ed. 1849). [171] _Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York_ (1877). [172] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1661-1668, p. 227. [173] _Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York_ (1858). [174] Doyle, _Cambridge Modern History_ (1905), vii. p. 41. [175] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1661-1668, p. 337. [176] _Ibid._, p. 606. [177] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1669-1674, p. 111. [178] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1669-1674, p. 525. [179] Hazard, _Historical Collections_ (1792). [180] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1689-1692, p. 209. [181] _A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York_ (1698). [182] _Calendar of State Papers_, Colonial, 1696-1697, p. 5. [183] He was also governor of Massachusetts, and died in 1729. [184] _A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zengler_, etc. (1738). [185] _Document relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York_ (1855). [186] _Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York_ (1855). CHAPTER VII THE QUAKER SETTLEMENTS AND GEORGIA There are few examples in history of the possessions of an ardent Roman Catholic passing quietly and amicably into the hands of members of the Society of Friends, but the Quaker colonies stand pre-eminent as one instance of this exceptional circumstance. The Quakers were probably the most persecuted of all religious sects in North America, and yet by the irony of fate, one of the most thriving settlements owed its origin to them; its capital Philadelphia became the most important town of the Thirteen Colonies, and for one hundred and seventeen years was regarded as the commercial, political, and social capital of the bickering and jarring states. In the history of these Quaker settlements the disunited character of the colonies is peculiarly apparent, and in no colony or group of colonies is it better exemplified than in those of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.