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New Jersey was named for the small Channel island of Jersey.
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The state of New Jersey was named after the Channel Island of Jersey in the English Channel.
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What state was named after the island in the English channel?
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Sir George Carteret, after the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where he had prevoiusly been governor.
New jersey's origin of name?
The state of New Jersey owes its name to Sir George Carteret, one of two English colonists who had been granted land by the English Crown which would eventually become America's "Garden State". Carteret served as governor of the Isle of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands south of England, before arriving in the Americas.
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