Weekly, monthly, quarterly meetings were established; houses of worship were built; and in August, 1681, the Quaker hierarchy (if it may so be called without offense) was completed by the establishment of the Burlington Yearly Meeting.

The same year the corporation, encouraged by its rapid success, increased its numbers and its capital, bought out the proprietors of East Jersey, and appointed as governor over the whole province the eminent Quaker theologian, Robert Barclay.

The Quaker regime continued, not always smoothly, till 1688, when it was extinguished by James II.

at the end of his perfidious campaigns against American liberties.
* * * * * This enterprise of the Quaker purchase and settlement of New Jersey brings upon the stage of American history the great apostle of Christian colonization, William Penn.

He came into relation to the New Jersey business as arbiter of some differences that arose between the two Friends who had bought West Jersey in partnership.