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Vice-Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 14 January 1680 N.S.) was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original lords proprietor of the former British colonies of Carolina and New Jersey .
Statue of George Carteret: Saint Peter, Jersey: A statue of Sir George Carteret, a loyalist of the future Charles II during the reign of Oliver Cromwell, was erected in 2014 to mark the 350th birthday of New Jersey. It was repeatedly defaced in 2020, in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. [17] [18]
The Carteret Baronetcy, of St Ouen on the Island of Jersey, was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 June 1670 for Philip Carteret. He was the grandson of Sir Philip de Carteret, whose brother Helier de Carteret, Deputy Governor of Jersey, was the father of Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet. Sir Philip's grandson, the third Baronet, was a ...
A work of the sculptor Laury Dizengremel, [1] it was erected in Saint Peter's Square in 2014, to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of New Jersey by Carteret. The idea for erecting the statue was conceived by John Refault, Constable of Saint Peter, [ 2 ] who secured over £36,000 of public funds towards its erection.
Sir Francis de Carteret Attorney-General of Jersey; George William de Carteret (1869 Jersey-4 September 1940) Cecil de Carteret (1886–3 January 1932) Philip de Carteret, 8th of St Ouen (14xx-1500) Philippe de Carteret III (1620-between 1663 and 1675)) Philippe de Carteret IV (1650-1693) Charles de Carteret (1679-1715) Rear-Admiral Philip ...
Appointed by Sir George Carteret (his brother) and Lord Berkeley of Stratton to be the first governor of New Jersey [49]: p.63 — John Berry (1635–89/90) 1672: 1673: Carteret left for England in 1672 and left his deputy, Captain Berry, to administer the colony [49]: p.68 Term ended with the Dutch capture of "New York" in 1673
On July 1, 1676, William Penn, Gawen Lawrie (who served from 1683 to 1686 as Deputy to Governor Robert Barclay), Nicholas Lucas, and Edward Byllynge executed a deed with Sir George Carteret known as the Quintipartite Deed, in which the territory was divided into two parts, East Jersey being taken by Carteret and West Jersey by Byllynge and his ...
During the English Civil War, the militia had divided loyalties, initially in March 1643 marching on St. Helier to support the arrest of Philippe de Carteret (the Royalist Governor and Bailiff). However, by the end of the year, they rallied to the Royalist cause with the arrival of George Carteret on the Island.