The New Student's Reference Work/Carteret, Sir George

Carteret (kär′tẽr-ĕt), Sir George, an English vice-admiral, royal lieutenant-governor of the island of Jersey in the English Channel and one of the original proprietors of the land lying between the Hudson and the Delaware, afterward named in his honor New Jersey, was born on Jersey about 1612 and died in 1680. With Lord Berkeley, a favorite of Charles the Second's court, Carteret was granted by the Duke of York (afterward James II), portions of New Amsterdam and what is now New Jersey. On the latter Carteret settled a colony, which should enjoy religious freedom and a liberal government resembling that of Maryland. The relations between the colonists and Carteret were, nevertheless, not harmonious; and portions of the lands were made over to the Quakers, ultimately, however, to revert again to the crown until the War of the Revolution.