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Peter Minuit gathered Indian tribes to purchase land for New Jersey (Original name was New Sweden) by PD Wilmington, Delaware.
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Dutchman Peter Stuyvesant took over as director-general for the neighboring colonies causing issues for the New Jersey colonists.
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Sweden lost New Sweden and no longer controlled any land in the Americas.
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New Jersey was split into an east and west New Jersey
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After the split Ne Jersey came together again as one royal colony
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Before 1738 when New Sweden was conquered and renamed New Jersey, they were under New York's governing and split from them.
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New Jersey was the first colony to have a state constitution before the Revolutionary war has started.
