The town of Carteret
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Well, I did a school project and Peter Stuyvesant fist owned New Jersey when the dutch had claimed it. Then, John Berkeley and George Carteret got New Jersey after the English won the war for that land.
John Berkeley, and George Carteret 1664. 1st Baronet (George) Carteret had been the former governor of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, UK. In recognition of Carterets aid to the king during his exile to Jersey, the land now known as New Jersey was gifted to Carteret by King Charles II.
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New Jersey was originally part of the land grant of New York that the king of England Charles the second gave to his brother in 1664. James the Duke of York gave New Jersey to two political friends in 1674. These friends were John Berkeley and George Carteret, it was Carteret who named New Jersey.
THE NAME: New JerseySir John Berkley and Sir George Carteret received a royal charter for a colony in the new land and named this colony for the island of Jersey in the English Channel. Carteret had been born on Jersey and had spent several years as Lieutenant Governor of the island.Source: NETSTATE
The land was given to his friends who established New Jersey : Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley.
The British took control of the territory that became New Jersey 1664 when they seized the Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. King James later granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton. The land was named New Jersey in honor of the channel island of Jersey which had supported the king in the English civil war.
Part of New York but soon after they named it New Jersey.
The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. ... Carteret had been governor of the Isle of Jersey. Berkeley and Carteret sold the land at low prices and allowed the settlers to have political and religious freedom.
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