New+Jersey

=New Jersey=


 * The colony of New Jersey was founded in 1664, the Dutch lost it to the New Netherlands in the year 1664. The colony was lead by Lord Berkeley and Sir. George Carteret.**

**(This is the New Jersey Colony Flag)** media type="custom" key="8563614"


 * [[image:http://www.mygenealogist.com/new-jersey-genealogy/New_Jersey_State_Seal.svg.png width="183" height="190"]](This is the colony seal of New Jersey)**
 * [[image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/willow/the-path-towards-american-independence0.gif width="137" height="164"]](This is th****e map of the colony)**

The amazing state facts

 * =====The New Jersey colony was founded in the year 1660 by the Dutch and refounded by the English in 1660=====
 * =====The early leaders were John Berkeley and George Carteret=====
 * =====The reason for the colony to build a colony on land that was captured from the Dutch=====
 * =====New Jersey was one of the 13 colonies=====
 * =====The first settlements in New Jersey were made by the Dutch along the western bank of the Hudson=====
 * =====In 1680 George Carteret died=====
 * =====New Jersey, numbering some seventy-five thousand inhabitants in 1760, was settled almost wholly by English people=====
 * =====The Quakers occupied most of the western part of NJ=====
 * =====The eastern portion was settled by emigrants from England, New England, and a few from Scotland and the southern colonies=====
 * =====The 5 men who signed the Declaration of Independecnce for New Jersey were Abraham Clark, Francis Hopskinson, John Witherspoon, John Hart, and Richard Stockton=====
 * They traded mostly tobacco, they built boats, and they mined for iorn
 * 2 of the major settlements in New Jersey were Westfeild and Union

**17th Century ** **18th Century **
 * **1660 ** - Dutch establishes Bergen, now Jersey City, becomes the first permanent town in New Jersey
 * **1664 ** - The British take control of New Jersey from the Dutch
 * **1676 ** - New Jersey Colony is divided into East Jersey and West Jersey
 * **1702 ** - East and West Jersey combined into one colony
 * **1721 ** - William Trent started a village called "Trent's Town," which eventually became Trenton in 1790 and the state's capital city.
 * **1738 ** - Lewis Morris became the first governor of New Jersey.
 * **1746 ** - Princeton University is founded
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1758 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Old Barracks in Trenton is built
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1766 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - Rutgers University is founded
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1774 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Greenwich Tea Burning
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1776-1783 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> -Since more than 100 Revolutionary War battles took place in New Jersey, our state was often known as "The Crossroads of the Revolution."
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1776 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> -
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">NJ's first newspaper, the New Jersey Gazette, issues its first edition
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">July 2 - New Jersey adopts its first state constitution
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">December 25 - Washington made his famous overnight crossing of the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to surprise the British in New Jersey. He defeated the British forces in the Battle of Trenton, changing the course of the war.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1777 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - Winter - Washington made his headquarters in Morristown
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1778 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - June 28 - Another significant victory was gained at the Battle of Monmouth.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1783 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - Princeton briefly serves as the nation's capital
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1784 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - Trenton briefly serves as the nation's capital
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1787 **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> - December 12,- New Jersey became the third state to join the union by ratifying the US Constitution.