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ord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret by deed of lease and release, to be called Nova Caesaria, or New Jersey......June 23-24, 1664 By license from Colonel Nicholls, governor under the Duke of York, a company, the Elizabethtown associates, purchase the site of Elizabethtown from Indians, and establish the first permanent settlement in New Jersey......Oct. 28, 1664 Philip Carteret, appointed first English governor of New Jersey, arrives at Elizabethtown with thirty settlers......August, 1665 Newark settled by thirty families from Connecticut......May 17, 1666 Grant of 276 acres issued for Hoboken......May 12, 1668 Session of the first legislative Assembly of New Jersey held at Elizabethtown......May 26, 1668 Bergen chartered......Sept. 22, 1668 Settlers under grants from Governor Nicholls form an independent government whose deputies at Elizabethtown elect James Carteret governor......May 14, 1672 Gov. Philip Carteret returns to England to lay the matter of