This volume was prepared and edited by authority of the State of New Jersey, at the request of the New Jersey Historical Society, and under the direction of the following Committee of the Society:
NATHANIEL NILES, Ch'n,
WILLIAM NELSON,
FREDERICK W. RICORD,
GARRET D. W. VROOM,
WILLIAM S. STRYKER.
PREFACE.
The source whence the material for this volume was obtained, the plan followed in printing and editing it, and the manner in which the proofs have been compared with the manuscript in England, are all explained in the preface to Vol. XIII.