 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1858 - 482 pages
...JERSEY was so named, in 1664, at the time of its conquest by the English from the Dutch, in honor of Sir George Carteret, who had been governor of the Isle of Jersey, in the * P. 78, where an account is given of Fletcher's visit to Connecticut. t During Governor Clark's... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1874 - 534 pages
...founded ; flourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as far south as Sandy Hook. 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. 4. Experience had taught the proprietors... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1876 - 436 pages
...founded ; flourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as far south as Sandy Hook. In honor of Sir George Carteret, who had been governor of the Isle of Jersey, his American domain was named NEW JERSEY. (134I 4. Berkeley and Carteret, though royalists, provided... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 740 pages
...founded ; nourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as fur south as Sandy Hook. 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. Experience had taught the proprietors... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 742 pages
...founded ; flourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as far south as Sandy Hook. 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. Experience had taught the proprietors... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 386 pages
...founded ; flourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as far south as Sandy Hook. 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. The seventeenth century was drawing... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 422 pages
...Nunatak is a peak in the interior of Greenland, ascended in 1878 by Captain Jensen, a Dane. Nunatak is the Eskimo name for peaks standing out from the...The word uru, 'city,' is the Assyrian alu, Accadian tri. On this tablet it is called the city of the god Marruv, 'the lord/ whence the name of MOUNT MORIAH.... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 420 pages
...Nunatak is a peak in the interior of Greenland, ascended in 1878 by Captain Jensen, a Dane. Nnnatah is the Eskimo name for peaks standing out from the...U-ru-sa-lim, the ' city of Salim,' the god of peace. The word лги, ' city,' is the Assyrian álu, Accadian eri. On this tablet it is called the city of ihe god... | |
 | James William Buel, John Clark Ridpath, Marcus Joseph Wright - 1900 - 504 pages
...the shores of the bay from the present site of Jersey City as far as Sandy Hook. It was in honor of Sir George Carteret, who had been governor of the Isle of Jersey, that his American domain was named New Jersey. We are here anticipating the many events of interest... | |
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Elizabethtown was made the capital of the colony; other immigrants arrived from Long Island and settled on the banks of the Passaic ; Newark was founded ; flourishing hamlets appeared on the shores of the bay as far south as Sandy Hook. In honor of Sir... 
