What was NJ called before it was named NJ?
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In the mid 1600's, the Hudson Valley area's ownership was under dispute between the Swedes and the Dutch. Two names for the area now known as New Jersey were New Sweden and New Netherland.\n\nInterestingly enough, New Jersey was actually considered part of New York and under their govenor's control until 1738.\n\nHope this helps!
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That would be none but 38 states were joined before that and they are:\n\n 1. Delaware \n 2. Pennsylvania \n 3. New Jersey \n 4. Georgia \n 5. Connecticut \n 6. Massachusetts \n 7. Maryland  \n 8. South Carolina  \n 9. New Hampshire \n10. Virginia \n11. New York \n12. North Carolina \n13. Rhode Island \n14. Vermont \n15. Kentucky \n16. Tennessee \n17. Ohio \n18. Louisiana \n19. Indiana \n20. Mississippi \n21. Illinois \n22. Alabama \n23. Maine \n24. Missouri \n25. Arkansas \n26. Michigan \n27. Florida \n28. Texas \n29. Iowa \n30. Wisconsin \n31. California \n32. Minnesota \n33. Oregon \n34. Kansas \n35. West Virginia \n36. Nevada  \n37. Nebraska \n38. Colorado
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States. It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City, the most populous city in both the state and the nation. Because of the preponderance of the population concentrated in the southern portion around New York City, the state is often regionalized into Upstate and Downstate.\n\nFor more info, see below:
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Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticutt, are some more names.  Old England is out of the country. So is Canada.
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To quote one of your playwrites, "A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet."  We also called the Soviet Union Russia and many of us call New Jersey, Jersey.  \n\nAre you sure that you meant to refer to "Americans" in your question?  I have never heard people from Brazil or Argentina refer to the UK as England.
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new york was originall new amsterdam which is to say the Dutch were the first colonists to settle the area, it was later captured by the British and renamed as present.
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Is this supposed to be the same person?  And do you mean the Declaration of Independence?  If so, The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton Sate College) has only had that name for ten years or so, while the college itself is 150 years old, do I don't think one person could have done both...  Please elaborate
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New England: \nProvince of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire \nProvince of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine \nColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations \nConnecticut Colony, later Connecticut \nMiddle Colonies: \nProvince of New York, later New York and Vermont \nProvince of New Jersey, later New Jersey \nProvince of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania \nDelaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware \nCheasapeake Colonies: \nProvince of Maryland, later Maryland \nColony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia \nSouthern Colonies: \nProvince of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee \nProvince of South Carolina, later South Carolina \nProvince of Georgia, later Georgia
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Apparently, Jersey cattle have been around centuries before the state of New Jersey.\n\n"The Jersey breed originated on the Island of Jersey, a small British island in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Jersey is one of the oldest dairy breeds, being purebred for nearly six centuries."
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One hundred and twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, April 2, 1873, an act to incorporate the City of Passaic was signed. As we celebrate 125 years as an incorporated city, we also celebrate 320 years of existence, as the area of modern day Passaic was originally settled in 1678 by Dutch pioneers. The following overview of the history of the City of Passaic is based upon information from many different sources and even to this day numerous facts are questioned and debated as to their accuracy and or validity. Please keep in mind that over a long period of time historical facts tend to become distorted, embellished, exaggerated and in many cases outright falsified. With this said, it is the hope of this writer that you will enjoy the following brief overview.\n\nOn April 4, 1678, a Dutch settler and trader, Mr. Hartman Michielsen (later Vreeland), purchased a "great island in the river of Pasaick near by Aquickanucke by the Indians called Menehenicke (translation of the Dutch from the original deed)." The island came to be known as Dundee Island and today that area is known as Pulaski Park and Dundee Island Park. Between 1679 and 1684-1685 deeds and patents were acquired between the original settlers and the native Americans, the Lenni-Lenapi, that secured for the original settlers the land including and surrounding modern day Passaic. In October of 1693 the Township of Acquackanonk was created in the northern part of Essex County. In February of 1837 the County of Passaic was created from parts of northern Essex and western Bergen County. In 1854 the Village of Acquackanonk took the name of the river that it bordered, Passaic. By the late 1860's the Village of Passaic was steadily growing in population and commercial and residential size. This growth was mostly due to the completion of the Dundee Dam and Dundee Canal in July of 1861. The vastly enlarged and now abundant fresh water supply became the basis for the industrial boom that would fuel Passaic’s rapid growth. Coincidentally, between April 2, 1873 and exactly five years later, a series of Acts, enacted by the Village of Passaic, terminated in its incorporation as a city. The last half of the nineteenth century and that part of the twentieth century before World War I were great growth years for Passaic’s numerous factories, mills and mom and pop businesses. The population growth during this time was over ten fold and peaked in the 70,000's during the decade after World War I.\n\nSome of the more memorable factories/mills that attracted and employed a vast majority of Passaic’s citizens were The Botany Worsted Woolen Mills, The Forstmann Woolen Mills, Passaic Cotton Mills, The Gera Mills, The McLean Cotton Mills, Brighton Mills, The Waterhouse Mill, The Acherson & Harden Manufacturing Co., The Okonite Company, The Pantasote Company, U.S. Rubber Company, Manhattan Rubber Company, Paterson Parchment Paper Company, J.L. Prescott Company, Reid and Barry Co., Passaic Print Works, The Dundee Power and Water Company, The Falstrom Company, Pitkin & Holdsworth Company, Jacques Wolff & Company and many more too numerous to mention but all equally important. Passaic has always been a city of immigrants and always will be. After the original Dutch settlers of the latter seventeenth century, came the English, the Scottish, and a small but varied mix of mostly Western Europeans following the American Revolution. The first half of the nineteenth century saw the arrival of the Germans, Irish, more English, Scandinavians, Austro-Hungarians (i.e. those from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire which included Ruthenian, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian and other heritages) and a mixed group of political émigrés from all over Europe. The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the arrival of more Germans, Irish, and a small influx of African-Americans, mostly former slaves. The last fifteen years of the nineteenth century saw the beginnings of the grea
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The U.S. was founded and developed by people from England and the rest of Europe.  So when they came to name a town, they often used names from "the old country," in part because they were homesick, and in part because they simply liked that town in the old country.  That's why so many names in America start with New:  New York, New England, New Jersey, etc.  You can pretty much tell where the immigrants came from by the nature of the town names.  For example, guess where the immigrants in the Santa Cruz Mountains came from, with names like Bonny Doon, Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond, Highlands Park . . .
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Frank Sinatra\nGrover Cleveland\nBruce Springsteen\n\n(note:  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were all NOT born in NJ)
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Yardville\nYardville Heights\nYorkship Square\nYorktown\n\n\nHey, Yonkers is in New York, not New Jersey.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_statehood\n\n\nDelaware\nPennsylvaina\nNew Jersey\nGeorgia\nConnecticut\nMassacusets\nMaryland\nSouth Carolina\nNew Hampshire\nVirginia
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Delaware is correct.  \n\nNot only is DC wrong, but it came way late to the game, and it isn't even a flippin state, for crying out loud!  Did you just sleep through 13 years of school, or what?
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Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians, though New England was always considered to be a distinct region):\n\nNew England: \nProvince of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire \nProvince of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine \nColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations \nConnecticut Colony, later Connecticut \nMiddle Colonies: \nProvince of New York, later New York and Vermont \nProvince of New Jersey, later New Jersey \nProvince of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania \nDelaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware \nCheasapeake Colonies: \nProvince of Maryland, later Maryland \nColony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia \nSouthern Colonies: \nProvince of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee \nProvince of South Carolina, later South Carolina \nProvince of Georgia, later Georgia
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I don't know, leave yahoo! answers and look it up online? Just a guess. Type "army bases new jersey" into the search engine. Duh.