470, 471.] [Footnote 36: The laws are summarized and quoted in A.J.Northrup "Slavery in New York," in the New York State Library _Report_ for 1900, pp.

254-272.
_See also_ E.V.Morgan, "Slavery in New York," in the American Historical Association _Papers_ (New York, 1891), V, 335-350.] As to New Jersey, the eastern half, settled largely from New England, was like in conditions and close in touch with New York, while the western half, peopled considerably by Quakers, had a much smaller proportion of negroes and was in sentiment akin to Pennsylvania.

As was generally the case in such contrast of circumstances, that portion of the province which faced the greater problem of control determined the legislation for the whole.

New Jersey, indeed, borrowed the New York slave code in all essentials.

The administration of the law, furthermore, was about as it was in New York, in the eastern counties at least.