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[49]: pp.43–44 Nicholls would remain governor until 1668, but the Duke of York granted part of the New Netherland territory (that between the Hudson and Delaware rivers, present day New Jersey), to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley for their devoted service to the Duke of York and his brother Charles II during the English Civil War.
The newly formed State of New Jersey elected William Livingston as its first governor on August 31, 1776—a position he would be reelected to until his death in 1790. [5] [6] While New Jersey was in a state of war, delegates of the Provincial Congress drafted the first constitution in a span of five days and ratified it only two days later.
John Berkeley was accredited ambassador from Charles I of England to Christina of Sweden, in January 1637, to propose a joint effort by the two sovereigns for the reinstatement of the elector palatine in his dominions; probably the employment of Berkeley in this by his cousin, Sir Thomas Roe, who had conducted negotiations between Gustavus Adolphus and the king of Poland.
Philip Carteret; French: Philippe de Carteret; (1639–1682) was the first Governor of New Jersey as an English proprietary colony, from 1665 to 1673 and governor of East New Jersey from 1674 to 1682.
Carteret is a borough in northeastern Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population reached 25,326, [9] [10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 2,482 (+10.9%) from the 2010 census count of 22,844, [17] [18] which in turn reflected an increase of 2,135 (+10.3%) from the 20,709 counted in the 2000 census.
Carteret County, North Carolina and town of Carteret, New Jersey are named after him, [5] and the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is named after his wife, [10] as is Elizabethtown, North Carolina. [11] In 1665, Carteret was one of the drafters of the Concession and Agreement, a document that provided freedom of religion in the colony of New ...
C. A. Nothnagle Log House, built by Finnish or Swedish settlers in the New Sweden colony in modern-day Swedesboro, New Jersey between 1638 and 1643, is one of the oldest still standing log houses in the United States. European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Henry Hudson.
The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys, 1777 map by William Faden. The Provincial Congress of New Jersey was a transitional governing body of the Province of New Jersey in the early part of the American Revolution. It first met in 1775 with representatives from all New Jersey's thirteen counties, to ...