USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Jersey’s colonial history began when Henry Hudson sailed the Newark Bay in 1609. From there, small trading colonies emerged in towns where Hoboken and Jersey City are now located. Settlers from the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland settled in Bergen, forming the first permanent European settlement in the state.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey’s first permanent European settlement. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to their colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Like New York, the area was first colonized by Dutch settlers around 1613. The colony was called New Netherland and included parts of modern-day New York and New Jersey. In 1660, the town of Bergen became the first established town in the New Jersey portion of New Netherland.

Detailed explanation-4: -New Jersey was governed very briefly as two distinct provinces, East and West Jersey, for 28 years between 1674 and 1702, at times part of the Province of New York or Dominion of New England.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution.