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New Jersey,
Was one of the thirteen original colonies.
Its territory was claimed to be a part of New Netherland.
A few Dutch traders from New Amsterdam seem to have settled at Bergen about 1620, and in 1623 a company led by Capt. Jacobus May built Fort Nassau, at the mouth of the Timmer Kill, near Gloucester.
There four young married couples, with a few others, began a settlement the same year.
In 1634, Sir Edward Plowden obtained a grant of land on the New Jersey side of the Delaware from the English monarch, and called it New Albion, and four years later some Swedes and Fins bought land from the Indians in the vicinity and began some settlements.
These and the Dutch drove off the English, and in 1665 Stuyvesant dispossessed the Swedes.
After the grant of New Netherland (1664) to the Duke of York by his brother, Charles II., the former sent Col. Richard Nicolls with a land and naval force to take possession of the domain.
Nicolls was made the first English governor of the
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Van Reypen, William Knickerbocker 1840-
Naval officer; born in Bergen, N. J., Nov. 14, 1840; graduated at the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1862; served at the Naval Hospital, New York, in 1862, and on the frigate St. Lawrence of the East Gulf blockading squadron, in 1863-64; appointed medical director in March, 1865; surgeon-general United States navy, and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery with the rank of rearadmiral, Oct. 22, 1897.
During the American-Spanish War he designed and equipped the ambulance ship Solace, the first ever employed in naval warfare.