In 1664, the Dutch lost control of New Jersey, which was part of the New Netherlands colony at the time, to the English. The British split the colony and gave control to two proprietors: Control of the east went to Sir George Carteret and control of the west to Lord John Berkley. Car...
History of the Colony Geography of the Colony Agriculture of the Colony Lesson SummaryShow New Jersey Colony Imagine is the year 1670, and you're living in the 13 Colonies — the colony of New Jersey, to be exact. You've only been living in North America for a short time and are ...
Slavery was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the 17th century, shortly after the Dutch first settled in the colony. The colonial system of slavery was a labor system known as chattel slavery, in which the slave was the personal property of his or her owner for life. Men and w...
In 1914,Esai Maeda(Japanese Judoka & Kodokan Member) was given the opportunity to travel to Brazil as part of a large Japanese immigration colony. In Brazil, in the northern state of Para, he befriended Gast�o Gracie, an influential businessman, who helped Maeda get established. To...
As colonization became more commonplace, in 1758 New Jersey became the first colony to have a reservation atBrotherton in Burlington County. The numbers of the Brotherton tribe were relatively low with 85 members at the time that the Oneida tribe in New York invited the Brotherton tribe to combi...
Society of Colonial Wars of New Jersey (SCWNJ) welcomes people to experience the historic milestones of the Colonial wars in New Jersey.
As a British colony, New Jersey was subject to English Common Law, and its women, especially married women, were subject to the property rights and civil rights of women in England. When a woman married, her legal status became that of feme covert, meaning that the wife was covered by th...
New Jersey is one of America's busiest industrial states. ... The state of New York began as a Dutch colony called New Netherland. Post-viewing question Q: Which New York City borough is considered the heart of that city?Why?school.discoveryeducation.com/.../ds/...states_vol_2.pdfBy...
CIVIL HISTORY.—The precise date of the first settlement in New Jersey is not known, though it is believed that the Danes or Norwegians, who crossed the Atlantic with the Dutch colonists, began a settlement at Bergen about 1624. Ten years previously an attempt had been made to form a sett...
and became a royal province in 1702. The colony was strategically important in the American Revolution and was the site of a number of major battles, including the engagements at Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth. New Jersey ratified the United States Constitution in 1787. Trenton is the capital...