Never did a commercial company show itself so little mercenary; never was a sovereign more magnanimous and unselfish.

With the opening of the province to settlement, the proprietors set forth a statement of their purposes: "We lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as men and Christians, that they may not be brought into bondage but by their own consent; for we put the power in the people." This was followed by a code of "Concessions and Agreements" in forty-four articles, which were at once a constitution of government and a binding compact with such as should enter themselves as colonists on these terms.

They left little to be desired in securities for personal, political, and religious liberty.[111:1] At once population began to flow amain.

In 1677 two hundred and thirty Quakers came in one ship and founded the town of Burlington.

By 1681 there had come fourteen hundred.