New+Jersey

=New Jersey Colony = =By Russell Presho and Andrew Kim = = = = I. Leaders = At the very start, the land was controlled by New Netherland. Sadly, because of Willem Kieft's mismanagement. Later, Peter Stuyvesant re-purchased known as Bergen Neck. Later, Sweden conquered the land, with the control of Johan Björnsson Printz.

There were many leaders for the Province of New Jersey such as the Duke of York and Sir George Carteret.​ Also, Sir George Carteret gave some of New Jersey to his son, James Carteret, and left his colony fall because the colony was becoming poor.

Colonial New Jersey, (New Netherlands) was founded for money from real estate profits. Also, another reason is to grab more land in North America. Besides, this gave U.K the south for the cash crops.

III. What was grown/Occupations
Rice, Grain, Indigo, and Tobacco were grown in the Province of New Jersey. These crops were grown in the area for the land is fine, like the southern colonies.

IV. What was made/Occupations
Miners mined for iron for trade with the Indians.

VI. Problems and difficulties
New Jersey, if slower to develop, also embraced a variety of religious groups. By 1701 the colony had forty-five distinct congregations; unable to afford churches and most met in houses or barns. And because clergymen were few, lay leaders frequently conducted services, with baptism and communion being offered only by the occasional itinerant minister. All denominations in New Jersey expanded rapidly over the eighteenth century. A church survey in 1765 lists the active congregations as follows:

Presbyterian 55 Quaker 39 Church of England 21 Dutch Reformed 21 Baptist 19 Dutch Lutheran 4 Seventh Day Baptist 2 German Reformed 2 and a few scattered others. For more information, please click here.

A. Clothing
The clothing was basically what the women made. For pictures please go here.

The education in New Jersey was small. There were only 2 colleges, the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and Queens (Rutgers). For information about the Middle Colonies' education, click to teleport the website on a new tab [|here.]

C. Government
There was a government called "The Concessions". New Jersey had a constitutional monarchy government which is a system where the monarch acts as a king. The United States of America isn't for there is a senate, supreme court, and a president.

VII.I Relationships with Natives
Extremely bad. The natives were fighting the Europeans constantly. The Lenni-Lenope eventually gave up their homeland for they couldn't survive the guns, disease and the colonists.

IX. Slavery
There were a lot of slaves. New Jersey needed a lot of slaves to support its economy. For more information below, click here This will open in a new window or tab (if an active user of Firefox). Slaves were allowed to have land and were encouraged ,  **but free blacks were sadly not and were barred by LAW** **:(** . There were a lot of slaves around Perth Amboy. By 1690, most of the citizens of New Jersey owned at least one slave. A 1745 census showed that 74% of the slaves in the colony lived in 5 eastern counties. Later, the slave population grew to nearly 4,000 from 2,581in 1738. Slaves took up about 12% of the colony's population until the American Revolution. From 1713 to 1768, the colony operated a separate court system to deal with slave crimes. Special punishments for slaves remained in the law books until 1788. Slaves were forbidden to carry firearms when not in the company of their masters, and anyone who gave or lent a gun to a slave faced a fine of 20 shillings. Slaves could not assemble on their own or be in the streets at night. Controls were further tightened during times of crisis. During Queen Anne's War, any slave found more than five miles from home without a pass was to be flogged, and the master was required to pay a reward to the person who had reported the infraction.

X. Interesting other tidbits
The Province of New Jersey used to be part of New York and called Albania. New Jersey was called East and West Jersey when it divided. New Jersey was became an English colony after New Netherlands surrendered to the English. The line between East and West Jersey was drawn directly from Little Egg Harbor to the Delaware Water Gap.

Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the coast of New Jersey.