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New Jersey was the only one of the middle colonies not named for a person. The middle colonies included New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. New York was named for the Duke of York, Pennsylvania was named for William Penn, and Delaware was named for the Thomas West, Baron De la Warr. New Jersey was named for the Island of Jersey, ancestral home to Sir George Carteret, who owned large tracts of land there.

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