colony · North America and Oceania
East Jersey
Origins
When Lord Berkeley sold his share of New Jersey in 1674, Sir George Carteret kept the eastern part, and the Quintipartite Deed of 1676 fixed the line dividing East Jersey from West Jersey. After Carteret's death his heirs sold the colony in 1682 to 24 proprietors, many of them Quakers and Scots, including William Penn and Robert Barclay.
Rule and society
Governor Philip Carteret, a cousin of the founder, ruled from Elizabethtown through the 1670s, and frequently clashed with the Province of New York over customs and authority. The Scottish proprietors founded Perth Amboy as their capital, and Barclay served as absentee governor from 1682 to 1688. Settlers from New England, Scotland and the Netherlands farmed and resisted quitrents. In 1688 the colony was added to the Dominion of New England.
Decline and legacy
Disorder over land titles led the proprietors to surrender government to the Crown in 1702, when East and West Jersey were reunited as the royal Province of New Jersey. The Board of Proprietors of East Jersey kept its land rights for centuries.
Lineage
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- East Jersey was part of Dominion of New England1688 CE – 1689 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). East Jersey. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/east-jersey
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