East Jersey
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Was one of the Middle Colonies of North America. It was merged with West Jersey in 1702.
Establishment
January 1675: East Jersey was established in 1674 by Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley. They were two of the original proprietors of the territory granted by the Duke of York. East Jersey became a haven for religious freedom and attracted a diverse population of settlers.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the lower Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois League against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.
January 1678: In 1677, the Iroquois adopted the majority of the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock into their nation.
Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
Disestablishment
January 1703: In 1702, East Jersey, governed by the Quakers, merged with West Jersey, governed by the Proprietors, to re-form the Province of New Jersey. This unification was overseen by Queen Anne of England.
Selected Sources
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
Jennings, F. (1968). Glory, Death, and Transfiguration: The Susquehannock Indians in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 112(1), 15–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/986100
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