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- From The Story of an Old Farm, or, Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century by Andrew D. Mellick, Jr. (Somerville, New Jersey: The Unionist-Gazette, 1889):
Edward Slater, another old settler [of Piscataway], seems early to have come to grief; we learn from the town records that he was imprisoned in 1681 for having "uttered very pnishouse and Squerillouse* words Rendering the Government of the province, the Governor and Counsell Odyous in the Eyes and hearts of the people." Judging from the above entry odd rules as to the use of capital letters must have prevailed. Why should eyes have been honored with a capital, while that more important organ, the heart, was forced to beat with a small letter! Slater did not, apparently, remain in durance very long, as in 1683 he was again apprehended on the suspicion of being an escaped criminal from England, and in the same year was presented by the grand jury in an indictment of nine counts, "as a common nuisance and offence."
Notwithstanding the tribulations of Edward Slater, by 1685 he seems to have been entirely restored to public favor. In that year he, with Hopewell Hull, John Fitz-Randolph, and others, was appointed one of a committee to superintend the building of a church edifice [...]
* TNH conjectures, very plausibly, that these are remarkable spellings of "pernicious" and "scurrilous".
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Abt 1644 - 1702 (~ 58 years)
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