Today in New Jersey history: Following the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, Richard Nicolls, James, Duke of York’s deputy governor of the newly named New York, issued land grants or “patents” to draw English settlers from New England and Long Island to the land across the river from Manhattan. Nicolls’ first New Jersey land grant, the “Elizabethtown tract” of over 400,000 acres in the eastern part of the colony, was to Puritans from Connecticut. On October 28, 1664, English settlers John Baily, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson exchanged goods with local Native Americans and formally moved into the area.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:43:52 +0000
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