My Thoughts My colony New Jersey really interested my when I found a lot of the research. With all the research I did on New Jersey, I think the history of its colony and how it became and what it has gone through is interesting. All my information you will be reading is about mostly the past some in this time. Enjoy.
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New Jersey. New Jersey is one of the 13 colonies. In 1664, New Jersey was founded by colonist Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. A hundred twenty three years later it became a state. New Jersey province remained a dependency of New York. Until the year of 1738 New Jersey became an Independent colony.
New Jersey is located in North America on the Atlantic Coast. New Jersey was the 13 colony of North America. New Jersey was named after a British island named Jersey. New Jersey got its name from a british island called Jersey. Its major town is Trenton, Princeton. New Jersey has many different religions and is not set on just one. |
Founders of New Jersey.Lord Berkeley was one of the founders of the New Jersey Colony. Growing up he lived in the colony of Virginia. The reason he founded New Jersey was because Duke of York had granted him and the other founder of the New Jersey colony, Sir George Carteret interest as well as Carolina. So in the 1664 they has become the founders of the New Jersey colony.
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15 months before territories restored by the English, Duke of York was claimed by New Jersey that they would fall into the hands of Dutch. Which who the English were at War with. By this time it was August and the year of 1673. When that 15 months came Dutch had received a new chapter by his brother. And later he appointed the whole domain to Andros governor.