The land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River is renamed New Jersey after the English Channel Island of Jersey which Charles II, after having seen their loyalty to the crown, had given to the people of Jersey as a gift having given him hospitality in the castle of Mont Orgueil before he was proclaimed king in 1649.

At the Restoration, Sir George Carteret, having shared Charles II’s banishment, had formed one of the immediate train of the restored monarch on his triumphant entry into London.

The next day Carteret had been sworn into the Privy Council, appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, and constituted Treasurer of the Navy.

His career for the next decade is documented in the diary of Samuel Pepys who joined him as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board in 1660.

The fidelity with which Carteret, like John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, had clung to the royal cause, has given him also great influence at court.

He had, at an early date, taken a warm interest in the colonization of America.

With Berkeley, Carteret had become one of the proprietors of the Province of Carolina.

The Duke now gives most of the area east of the Delaware to his friends Berkeley and Carteret, whose holdings will eventually become known, respectively, as West New Jersey and ...