Province of New Jersey (English Colony)
Substate | Defunct
1664 CE to 1676 CE
The Province of New Jersey is one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and becomes the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776.
The province had originally been settled by Europeans as part of New Netherland, but came under English rule after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, becoming a proprietary colony.
The English then renamed the province after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel.
The Dutch Republic reasserted control for a brief period in 1673–1674.
After that it consisted of two political divisions, East Jersey and West Jersey, until they are united as a royal colony in 1702.
The original boundaries of the province are slightly larger than the current state, extending into a part of the present state of New York, until the border is finalized in 1773.
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Europeans will often be offered fur, food or other items as gifts when they first encounter a tribe.
The Europeans do not understand they are supposed to take on an alliance with the natives, including helping them against their enemies.
Native tribes regularly practice gift giving as part of their social relations.
Because the Europeans (or most of them) do not, they are considered to be rude and crude.
After observing that Europeans want to trade goods for the skins and other items, natives enter into that commercial relationship.
As a consequence, both sides become involved in the conflicts of the other.
The Europeans in New France, Carolina, Virginia, New England, and New Netherland become drawn into the endemic warfare of their trading partners.
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 ...
...East New Jersey.
The county of Carteret County, North Carolina and town of Carteret, New Jersey are named after Carteret.