The following year, Director May, moved by the attempt of a French sea-captain to set up the arms of France in Delaware, built the fort called Fort Nassau at the mouth of Timmer Kill or Timber Creek, a few miles below Camden, and settled some young Walloons near it.

The Walloons (young couples), who had been married on shipboard, settled on the site of Gloucester.

This was the first settlement of white people in New Jersey that lived long; but it, too, withered away in time.

It was seven years later when Michael Pauw made his purchase from the Indians of the territory extending from Hoboken to the Raritan River and, latinizing his name, called it Pavonia.
In this purchase was included the settlement of some Dutch at Bergen.
Though other settlements were attempted, it was forty years before any of them became permanent.

Cape May, a territory sixteen miles square, which Captain Heyes bought of the Indians, all the time remained an uncultivated wilderness, yielding the products of its salt meadows to the browsing deer.
After the trouble with Dutch and Swedes the English came under the agent of the Duke of York and captured the New Netherland.