Carteret, Sir George, Baronet

Carteret, Sir George, Baronet

▪ British politician
born c. 1610, probably Jersey, Channel Islands, Eng.
died January 1680, New Jersey [U.S.]

      British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey.

      A British naval officer and lieutenant governor of Jersey, Carteret made the island a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil Wars and privateered in the Stuart cause, thereby winning a knighthood (1644) and a baronetcy (1645). After the capture of the island by a Parliamentary force in 1651, he went into exile in France, where he served in the French navy, but he returned to England at the Restoration (1660). There he became a powerful administrator and legislator. Censured by Parliament for laxity in account keeping, he gave up the naval treasury in 1667, though he subsequently held other important posts.

      In 1663 Carteret was one of the eight original proprietors to whom King Charles II granted the area of Carolina in North America. The following year he received property rights to half of New Jersey, named for his birthplace in his honour. Friction in the colony and disappointing financial returns led the other owner, John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, to sell out to the Quakers in 1674. With them Carteret agreed upon a division of the colony in 1676; he kept East Jersey, which his heirs sold to William Penn and other Quakers two years after his death.

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