Philip Carteret (1639 - 1682) was the first governor of New Jersey. In 1665, he was appointed by John Berkeley and his cousin George Carteret, the two proprietors of the newly-acquired grant "the Province of New Caesaria or New Jersey", to take possession and assume the position of governor. Carteret found the province inhabited by "a few hundred Dutchmen and English Puritans, who had settled in Woodbridge and Newark" (Morison). Wikipedia
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The same year James disposed of the province to two of his friends, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, and it was named in honor of the latter, who had been governor of the island of Jersey in the English Channel. www.usahistory.info/colonies/New-Jersey.html
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