It Was a gift to the family de cartret from the king of England Charles the 2nd de cartret are a family from jersey CI that belongs to the English crown.Because they named it after an island in the...
New Jersey is named after Jersey as New England was named for England.Jersey is one of the Channel Islands between England and France The land for the colony was a gift to the Carteret family from...
As in New York, New Jersey refers to a place in the country that the founders were from. Also, ther used to be an island called Jersey, though I'm not sure if it exists anymore. I believe it was off...