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New Jersey
Province of New Jersey

The Province of New Jersey was an English colony that existed within the boundaries of the current U.S. state of New Jersey from 1674 until 1702....
 was governed as two distinct provinces, East Jersey
East Jersey

East Jersey, together with West Jersey, was a distinct, separately governed Province of New Jersey that existed for 28 years, between 1674 and 1702....
 and West Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702.

Determination of an exact location for a border between West Jersey and East Jersey
Border between West Jersey and East Jersey

New Jersey was formally separated into two provinces, West Jersey and East Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702.Determination of an exact location for a West Jersey/East Jersey borderline was often a matter of dispute....
 was often a matter of dispute.

The Delaware Valley had been inhabited by the Lenape
Lenape

The Lenape are organized bands of Native Americans in the United States peoples with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics.These are the people who are living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the northern shore of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the t...
 (or Delaware) Indians prior to exploration and settlement starting around 1609 by the Dutch, Swedish and English.






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New Jersey
Province of New Jersey

The Province of New Jersey was an English colony that existed within the boundaries of the current U.S. state of New Jersey from 1674 until 1702....
 was governed as two distinct provinces, East Jersey
East Jersey

East Jersey, together with West Jersey, was a distinct, separately governed Province of New Jersey that existed for 28 years, between 1674 and 1702....
 and West Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702.

Determination of an exact location for a border between West Jersey and East Jersey
Border between West Jersey and East Jersey

New Jersey was formally separated into two provinces, West Jersey and East Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702.Determination of an exact location for a West Jersey/East Jersey borderline was often a matter of dispute....
 was often a matter of dispute.

The Delaware Valley had been inhabited by the Lenape
Lenape

The Lenape are organized bands of Native Americans in the United States peoples with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics.These are the people who are living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the northern shore of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the t...
 (or Delaware) Indians prior to exploration and settlement starting around 1609 by the Dutch, Swedish and English. Settlement of the West Jersey area by Europeans was thin until the English conquest in 1664.

The Dutch had established one or two Delaware River settlements but by the late 1620s had moved most of their inhabitants to Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 which became the center of New Netherland
New Netherland

File:Seal of new netherland.jpgNew Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the Eastern Seaboard of North America....
.

The development of the colony of New Sweden
New Sweden

New Sweden was a small Sweden settlement along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day United States states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....
 in the lower Delaware began in 1638. Most of the Swedish population was on the west side of the Delaware, but after the New Netherland's Fort Nassau
Fort Nassau

The name Fort Nassau was used by the Netherlands in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau....
 was re-established to challenge the Swedes, Ft. Elfsborg was established in present day Salem County. The Dutch defeated New Sweden in 1655.

Beginning in the late 1670s Quakers settled in great numbers first in present day Salem County and then in Burlington
Burlington, New Jersey

Burlington is a City in Burlington County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of 2007, the city population was 9,485....
 which became the capital of West Jersey.

See also

  • List of colonial governors of New Jersey
    List of colonial governors of New Jersey

    This is a list of governors of the Province of New Jersey, including the period of its division into West Jersey and East Jersey, up to the American Revolution....


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