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    Philip Carteret; French: Philippe de Carteret; (1639–1682) was the first Governor of New Jersey as an English proprietary colony, from 1665 to 1673 and...
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  • Governor Carteret may refer to: Philip Carteret (colonial governor) (1639–1682), 1st Governor of the Colony of New Jersey from 1665 to 1673 and Governor...
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  • Philip Carteret was a naval officer. Philip Carteret may also refer to: Philip Carteret (colonial governor) (1639–1682), first Governor of New Jersey...
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  • Philip Carteret, 1st Baronet (1620-1663/75), Seigneur of Sark Philip Carteret (colonial governor) (1639–82), first Governor of New Jersey Sir Philip Carteret...
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  • British annexation of the Dutch province of New Netherland in 1664, Philip Carteret, governor of the proprietary colony of New Jersey, granted land to Captain...
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    return for land. The two Lords Proprietor selected Carteret's brother Philip as the province's first governor. In 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the...
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    enticement for settlers. Philip Carteret was appointed by the two proprietors as the first governor of New Jersey. Philip Carteret designated Bergen as the...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 14 January 1680 N.S.) was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon...
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    supposed to pay annual fees known as quit-rents. In 1665, Philip Carteret became the first governor of New Jersey, appointed by the two proprietors. He selected...
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    politician, and colonial administrator. He was the acknowledged extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin was the last colonial Governor of New...
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    assembly approval, and a governor appointed by the proprietors. The first governor appointed in this way was Philip Carteret, who founded Elizabethtown...
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  • brother of Philip Carteret. After Governor Samuel Stephens died in late 1669, the governor's council named Carteret acting governor. As Governor, Cateret...
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    1680. In 1670, William Sayle, then in his eighties, became the first Colonial Governor of the colony of Carolina. Many of the other colonists were planters...
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    was also called "the Province of New Caesaria or New Jersey". See: Philip Carteret. Rieff, Henry. "Interpretations of New York-New Jersey Agreements 1834...
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    Edmund Andros (category Colonial governors of New Hampshire)
    February 1714; also spelled Edmond) was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of...
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    wife, Elizabeth Carteret (née. Smith), widow of the first governor of New Jersey Philip Carteret in 1685. Townley was one of the East New Jersey Provincial...
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  • Jersey which convened at Elizabethtown on 3 November 1668, under Philip Carteret (Governor). Samuel Moore was appointed Treasurer of the Province of East...
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  • governance of Jersey. Vaughan's response to this, with some support from the de Carteret family, was an attempt remove Lemprière from the office of Bailiff, despite...
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  • Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, Governor (1670–1706) Colonel Mordaunt, Governor (1697) Bailiffs Amice de Carteret, Bailiff (1601–1631) Jean de Quetteville...
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  • Anthony Colve (category Colonial governors of New Jersey)
    joined the Zeeland squadron in the Caribbean, learned that governor Lovelace of colonial New York, which only recently had been New Netherland, before...
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    John Byron (category Governors of Newfoundland Colony)
    lieutenant to Commander Philip Carteret immediately afterwards in the next circumnavigation (1766–69). In 1769 he was appointed governor of Newfoundland off...
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    Robert Barclay (category Colonial governors of New Jersey)
    York had given New Jersey to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. After Carteret's death his half (East Jersey) was sold...
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  • in charge of appointing the provincial governors. The first such governor to be appointed was Philip Carteret. The goal of the document was to entice...
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    William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley, and Sir John Colleton the right to settle lands...
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    1700) May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703) June 22 – Philip Carteret Webb, English barrister (b. 1702) June 23 – Mark Akenside, English...
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  • Commodore Governor (1735–1737) Philip Vanbrugh, Commodore Governor (1738) Henry Medley, Commodore Governor (1739–1740) Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1741)...
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  • Thomas Jarvis (category Deputy governors of North Carolina (1691–1712))
    member of the executive council under Governor Peter Carteret and continued to play an active role in colonial politics for two decades. From 1683 to...
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    believed by Europeans to be part of New Britain, but the British explorer Philip Carteret established in 1767 that the island was physically separate, and gave...
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    Philippe de Carteret II, Bailiff and Lieut-Governor of Jersey through his maternal grandfather. Elias Dumaresq and his wife Elizabeth de Carteret resided...
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    charter for New Jersey to two court friends, Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley. Governor Nicolls immediately realized that the charter meant the...
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