Their territory extended from New York harbor to the Delaware River, and was named New Jersey in honor of Carteret's defense of the island of Jersey against the Puritans.

Colonists at once began coming to the new province and settled at Elizabethtown.
[Sidenote: East and West Jersey.] [Sidenote: Prosperity.] 72.

Later New Jersey .-- Soon New Jersey was divided into two parts, East Jersey and West Jersey.

West Jersey belonged to Lord Berkeley and he sold it to the Quakers.

Not very many years later the Quakers also bought East Jersey.