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| | Sir George Carteret, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Sir George Carteret, Baronet, was born in the Island of Jersey in 1599, his father, Helier Carteret, being then Deputy Governor of that Island. |
 | | Sir George Carteret turned his attention, at an early date, to the Colonization of America, and in 1650 fitted out a ship for Virginia with many passengers, all sort of goods and tools for husbandry, in order to plant an island of which he had obtained a grant. |
 | | Though the project is supposed not to have been fully carried out, on account of the civil war, he did not lose sight of it altogether, and eventually put it into execution in 1665, when he and his associates found the Colony, called New Jersey in his honor. |
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