The history of New Jersey goes
back to Dutch and Swedish communities established prior to settlement by the
English. Dutch claims to the Hudson and Delaware valleys were based on the
voyages of Henry Hudson, who sailed into Newark Bay in 1609.
In 1681 William Penn and 11
other Quakers purchased East Jersey from Carteret's widow. In both Jerseys
confusion resulting from the unwieldy number of landowners together with
widespread resentment against authority caused the proprietors to surrender
voluntarily their governmental powers to the crown in 1702, although they
retained their land rights. New Jersey's independence from New York was recognized,
but authority was vested in the governor of New York until 1738, when Lewis Morris was appointed governor of New Jersey alone. Under the royal governors
the same problems persisted—land titles were in dispute and opposition to the
proprietors culminated in riots in the 1740s.
East Jersey was dominated by
Calvinism, implanted by Scottish and New England settlers, while in West Jersey
the Quakers soon developed a landed aristocracy with strong political and
economic influence. Anti-British sentiment gradually spread from its stronghold
in East Jersey throughout the colony and took shape in Committees of
Correspondence. Although the Tory party was to prove strong enough to raise six
Loyalist battalions, the patriot cause was generally accepted, and in June,
1776, the provincial congress adopted a constitution and declared New Jersey a
state.
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