CONTENTS

[Preface]

PART I

CONDITIONS IN COLONIAL AND SETTLEMENT TIMES

CHAPTER I[The Great Proprietary Estates]
CHAPTER II[The Sway of the Landgraves]
CHAPTER III[The Rise of the Trading Class]
CHAPTER IV[The Shipping Fortunes]
CHAPTER V[The Shippers and Their Times]
CHAPTER VI[Girard—The Richest of the Shippers]