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	Sir George Carteret - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1643 he succeeded by reversion from his uncle, Sir Philip Carteret, to the post of bailiff of Jersey, and in the same year was appointed by the king lieutenant-governor of the island.
		In 1650, in consideration of Carteret's services, Charles granted to him "a certain island and adjacent islets near Virginia, in America," which were to be called New Jersey; but no settlement upon this grant was made.
		In 1651 Carteret, after a seven weeks' siege, was compelled to surrender Jersey to a Parliamentary force; he then joined the Royalist exiles in France, where for a time he held a command in the French navy.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_George_Carteret (550 words)

	John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The family of Carteret was settled in the Channel Islands, and was of Norman descent.
		Carteret had inherited a one-eighth share in the Province of Carolina through his great-grandfather Sir George Carteret.
		When Carteret returned to London in 1730, Walpole was firmly established as master of the House of Commons, and as the trusted Minister of King George II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Carteret,_2nd_Earl_Granville (1535 words)

	Carteret, Lady Elizabeth (Pepys' Diary)
		“Philip Carteret, first Governor of East Jersey, landed at the Point which he named Elizabethtown in 1665, in honor of Lady Elizabeth Carteret, wife of Sir George Carteret.” http://www.getnj.com/historicroadsides/union.shtml
		Elizabeth Carteret (1615-1696) became proprietor of East Jersey after the death of her husband George Carteret
		Shown at her writing desk is Lady Elizabeth Carteret, widow of the governor of New Jersey Sir George Carteret, who came from Jersey itself.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/4039.php (396 words)

	SIR GEORGE CARTERET - LoveToKnow Article on SIR GEORGE CARTERET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was the son of Helier de Carteret of St Ouen, and in his youth was trained to follow the sea.
		In 1643 he succeeded by reversion from his uncle, Sir Philip Carteret, to the post of bailiff of Jersey, and in the same year was appointed by the king lieutenant-governor of the island.
		In 165r Carteret, after a seven weeks siege, was compelled to surrender Jersey to a Parliamentary force; he then joined the Royalist exiles in France, where for a time he held a command in the French navy.
	12.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CARTERET_SIR_GEORGE.htm (566 words)

	George Carteret -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the commencement of the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War he retired from the (An organization of military naval forces) navy, and withdrew with his family to Jersey, but subsequently returned to aid the projects of the royalists.
		George Carteret also had Charles proclaimed King in (Click link for more info and facts about Saint Helier) Saint Helier on 17 February 1649 after the execution of his father, Charles I. Charles II never forgot this gesture whereby Jersey became the first of his realms to recognise his claim to the throne.
		In 1669 he was expelled from the House of Commons to which he had been elected in 1661 to represent (A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base) Portsmouth, for misconduct as Vice Chamberlain, being accused of embezzlement (see Andrew Marvell's Letters, pp.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_carteret.htm (375 words)

	This is Jersey - Living in Jersey - History & Heritage - Sir George Carteret
		The man in question is George Carteret, who despite being ‘born a sea boy’, rose to high office – not only in the Navy but also in England’s civil hierarchy.
		Carteret’s hospitality was rewarded with a gift of land in Virginia – land which, as it turned out, was not settled successfully in Carteret’s time.
		Carteret was first imprisoned in the Bastille and then banished to the Netherlands, where he joined Charles in exile.
	www.thisisjersey.com /code/showarticle.pl?ArticleID=000616 (1096 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg119 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George SPENCER-CHURCHILL [Parents] was born on 3 Mar 1766 in Of, Wormleighton, Warwickshire, England.
		Georgiana Caroline CARTERET was born on 12 Mar 1716.
		Louisa CARTERET was born on 14 Sep 1714 in, London, Middlesex, England.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg119.htm (959 words)

	Carteret History
		In the early 1800's Carteret was an important community because of its roads leading inland along the water front.
		The Ancestor of the bus was the trolley which entered the Carteret Scene in the 1900's, the trolley appearing first as a horsedrawn vehicle, in turn supplanted the stage coach.
		Carteret in 1906 was community with front flower gardens surrounded by a countryside with charming scenery and reached by roads on which horse-drawn "roadwagons" and family carriages was the mode of traffic.
	www.westfieldnj.com /whs/history/carteret.htm (989 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Carteret
		George Carteret also had Charles proclaimed King in Saint Helier on 17 February 1649 after the execution of his father, Charles I. Charles II never forgot this gesture whereby Jersey became the first of his realms to recognise his claim to the throne.
		Saint Helier (JÃ¨rriais: St HÃ©lyi) is one of the twelve parishes and the largest town on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.
		At the Restoration, having shared Charles IIâs banishment, Sir George formed one of the immediate train of the restored monarch on his triumphant entry into London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Carteret (1311 words)

	Borough History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the early 1800's Carteret was an important community because of its roads leading inland along the waterfront.
		The Ancestor of the bus was the trolley which entered the Carteret scene in the 1900's, the trolley appearing first as a horse drawn vehicle, in turn supplanted the stage coach.
		The Carteret school system had its beginnings as the first red brick schoolhouse which still stands in West Carteret section.
	www.ci.carteret.nj.us /boro/history.asp (1094 words)

	[No title]
		The fourth gentleman was Sir George Carteret, the Lieutenant-Governor, a bluff sea-faring man, little used to obey, yet anxious, in that presence, to be deferential; with an unmistakable pugnacity varnished over with a gloss of _ruse_.
		Carteret cursed La Cloche's officious meddling all the way to his own quarters, and on arriving there sent a sergeant to the unfortunate clergyman, who deported him to France by the next boat that sailed.
		He is in favour with Carteret, and will be quit for a fine, which I will gladly pay." As she stood, warm and bright with zeal, and intellect flushing in her eye, Alain thought that, with all his troubles, her exiled lord was a happy man. But he had to think of his own case.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/14216/14216.txt (21699 words)

	Virginia - Ridpath's History of the United States
		In honor of Sir George Carteret, who had been governor of the Isle of Jersey, in the English Channel, his American domain was named New Jersey.
		Carteret determined to defend his claim against the authority of Andros; but Lord Berkeley, disgusted with the duke's vacillation and dishonesty, sold his interest in New Jersey to two English Quakers, John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge.
		The territory lying east of this line remained to Sir George as sole proprietor, and was named East Jersey; while that portion lying between the line and the Delaware was called West Jersey, and passed under the exclusive control of Penn and his associates.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/ridpath/jersey1911.html (1612 words)

	newjersey
		Sir George Carteret, and it was Carteret that began to colonize his new land.
		Carteret used a form of governement called the "Consessions", which granted religious liberty to Englishmen in the new colony.
		George Carteret died in 1680 and two years later, East Jersey was sold at an actuion to twelve men, which included William Penn. Each of these twelve men sold half of their land to another men and East Jersey then had twnety-four properietors.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrstephensons_students/Unified-2004-2005-Colonization/middle2/newjersey.html (489 words)

	History of New Netherland
		They appointed Philip Carteret, a cousin of Sir George, governor, and with about thirty emigrants, several of whom were Frenchmen skilled in the art of salt-making, he sailed for New York, where he arrived in July, 1665.
		Carteret was shorter and fat, good-natured and affable, with polished manners which he had learned by being much at court.
		Carteret admired his spirit, but his words sounded too much like the voices of the followers of Cromwell, and he refused to hold further conference with him.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/historyne_fg.html (1411 words)

	Berkeley, George -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Akerlof, George A. American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundation for the theory of markets with asymmetric information.
		The Anglo-Irish bishop, philosopher, and scientist George Berkeley felt that all matter, insofar as humans know it, exists as a perception of mind.
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078783?tocId=9078783 (729 words)

	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.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nycoloni/biosrgcart.html (338 words)

	Colonial New Jersey
		The same year James disposed of the province to two of his friends, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, and it was named in honor of the latter, who had been governor of the island of Jersey in the English Channel.
		The people rose in rebellion, elected an illegal assembly, and called James Carteret, illegitimate son of the proprietor, to be their governor.
		In 1680 George Carteret died, and two years later East Jersey was sold at auction to twelve men, one of whom was William Penn.
	www.usahistory.info /colonies/New-Jersey.html (1109 words)

	Barbados and Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IIn 1663 King Charles II granted the Province of Carolina to eight Proprietors, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Albemarle, Lord Craven, Lord Berkeley, Lord Ashley (later Earl of Shaftesbury), Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley, and Sir John Colleton.
		In 1751 George Washington, who was 19 years old at the time, accompanied his half-brother, Lawrence, who was recuperating from tuberculosis to Barbados.
		George contracted small pox on the island and had scars from it for the rest of his life.
	sio.midco.net /mapstamps/carolina.htm (242 words)

	European Exploration of New Jersey.
		In June 1664, James, Duke of York conveyed the land to two court friends who had stood by the monarchy during the Cromwellian Revolution, namely John Lord Berkely and Sir George Carteret as tribute to their stout defense of the Isle of Jersey when King Charles had fled there in 1649.
		Lord Berkely and Sir George Carteret, being friends, divided the present in half.
		The area was divided, under the 1664 terms, Sir George Carteret taking Eastern New Jersey and Lord Berkely, West New Jersey with no definite dividing line.
	www.palsplus.org /wanaque/archive/explore.htm (798 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 366, NEW JERSEY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		In 1682 Carteret's heirs sold East Jersey to a company of proprietors, and in 1702 all the proprietors ceded their rights of jurisdiction to the crown, reserving their rights of property.
		It was finally settled by board of joint commissioners, whose decision was confirmed by the two legislatures in February, 1834, and by act of congress of June 28 of the same year.
		A grant of political privileges, known as "the concessions," was made by Berkeley and Carteret in 1664-5.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy757.html (1677 words)

	Articles - George Carteret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He afterwards, on the ruin of the royal cause, afforded an asylum to the Prince of Wales and other refugees of distinction within his government of Jersey where he served as Bailiff 1643-1651, and defended the island against the Parliamentarians, Elizabeth Castle being the last fortress that lowered the royal banner.
		In 1673 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and continued in the public service until his death 14 January 1679 (old style).
		Shortly before Carteret's death, the king proposed to give him the title Baron Carteret, but Carteret died too soon, so the honor passed to his grandson George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret.
	www.lastring.com /articles/George_Carteret (527 words)

	AllRefer.com - Philip Carteret (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Philip Carteret 1639–82, first colonial governor of New Jersey.
		Carteret, commissioned by the proprietor, Sir George Carteret, his fourth cousin, arrived in the province in 1665.
		Mounting difficulties with Sir Edmund Andros over the right to collect customs duties led to Carteret's imprisonment by Andros and his eventual restoration by the duke of York (later James II).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CarteretP.html (201 words)

	Hbc Heritage - Our History - People
		In 1665 Pierre Radisson and his brother-in-law Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, accompanied by Colonel George Cartwright, whom they had met in Boston, arrived in London seeking backers for their proposed fur trading venture to Hudson Bay.
		Sir George Carteret was a self-made millionaire whose fortune had been built on the profits of piracy against the Cromwellians during the English Civil War.
		Carteret bought a vessel for the voyage - the Discovery - although she proved unsuitable and was later sold at a loss.
	www.hbc.com /hbcheritage/history/people/builders/lordes.asp (918 words)

	The Washington Times - Jersey
		The de Carterets were among the first fief holders in 11th century Jersey, and had land possessions in England and France.
		Sir George had spent time on the high seas as a naval commander, and upon his return to Jersey he used his influence and power to persuade islanders to support the king.
		Malet de Carteret does stress that the relationship between the Channel Island and the garden state is not apparent to all Americans in New Jersey.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/00/jersey/9.html (1331 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir George Carteret (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir George Carteret[kAr´turet] Pronunciation Key, c.1610–1680, proprietor of East Jersey (see New Jersey).
		He served in the British navy, fought for the royalists, and became (1643) lieutenant governor of his native island of Jersey.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Sir George Carteret
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CarteretG.html (196 words)

	New Jersey county information for students
		Isle of Jersey (and Carteret) had sheltered Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, when they had to flee the English Civil War.
		The Duke of York, possessed of the Jerseys, Granted same to Sir George Carteret, who came from the Isle of Jersey.
		His intention was to call same in honor of his family, Nova Cesaria, but the people preferred to call it by a name they could better understand, to wit the Jerseys.
	www.gti.net /mocolib1/kid/njhistory.html (357 words)

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