A Dictionary of American History

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Author: Thomas L. Purvis  | Date: 1995

West Jersey

West Jersey On 4 July 1664, anticipating the conquest of New Netherland, Charles II granted modern N.J. to John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. Berkeley sold his proprietary rights in 1674 to the proprietors of West Jersey, who formed a colony on the Delaware River. The proprietors founded the first English settlement at Salem in November 1675, and they stimulated the emigration of 2,000 Quakers by 1682. Factional divisions within the proprietors’ ranks frustrated the formation of a workable government, and the Crown assumed control of West Jersey on 15 April 1702.

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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "West Jersey," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed June 3, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2R44E5WIG14HXQ.

MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "West Jersey." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 3 Jun. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2R44E5WIG14HXQ.

Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'West Jersey' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 3 June 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2R44E5WIG14HXQ.