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INFOMATION ABOUT NEW JERSEY
Song: I'm From New Jersey
Colonel Richard Nicolls becomes deputy governor: Guarantees:
property rights, laws of inheritance & religious freedom
The Duke of York becomes King James II, Grants the land to two friends:
Sir George Carteret, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, thus dividing the state:
East Jersey and West Jersey
1674: Lord Berkeley sold his share to the Quakers
1702: Queen Anne units east and west as a royal colony
1776: New Jersey Adopted Declaration of Independence
1779: Articles of Confederation
1783: Princeton New Jersey is the Nation's Capital
1787: 3rd state to ratify Us Constitution
1960s: Glassboro, NJ Site of Summit Conference between:
Lyndon B Johnson and USSR Premier Aleksei Kosygin
New Jersey's State seal:
New Jersey Statutes, Title 52, Section 52:2-1.
TITLE 52
- STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS.
52:2-1. Description of great seal of state The great seal of this state
shall be engraved on silver, which shall be round,
of two and a half inches in diameter and three-eighths of an inch thick;
the arms shall be three ploughs in an escutcheon, azure;
supporters, Liberty and Ceres. The Goddess Liberty to carry
in her dexter hand a pole, proper, surmounted by a cap gules,
with band azure at the bottom,
displaying on the band six stars, argent; tresses falling on shoulders,
proper; head bearing over all a chaplet of laurel leaves, vert;
overdress, tenne; underskirt, argent; feet sandaled,
standing on scroll. Ceres: Same as Liberty, save overdress,
gules; holding in left hand a cornucopia,
or, bearing apples, plums and grapes surrounded by leaves,
all proper;
head bearing over all a chaplet of wheat spears, vert.
Shield surmounted by sovereign's helmet, six bars, or;
wreath and mantling, argent and azure. Crest:
A horse's head, proper. Underneath the shield and
supporting the goddesses,
a scroll azure, bordered with tenne, in three waves or folds;
on the upper folds the words "Liberty and Prosperity" ;
on the under fold in Arabic numerals, the figures "1776" .
These words to be engraved round the arms, viz.,
"The Great Seal of the State of New Jersey" .
Representatives:
US House:
110th Congress
US Senate:
110th Congress
New Jersey House: Members
New Jersey Senate: Members
Constitution: 3rd State
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