I grew up inNew Jersey … exit 4 , to be more accurate . But it was n’t until I left home that I really started to think about the original Jersey , off the seashore of France . Technically , the original Jersey is a bailiwick indite of an island and two mathematical group of small islands , which , along with another bailiwick called Guernsey , make up the Channel Islands . Jersey is n’t part of the U.K. , nor is it a full - member state of the EU , but is a freestanding possession of The Crown in Right of the United Kingdom .
So why is New Jersey nominate after Jersey ? Well , When Charles II of England was exiled in Jersey , a world named Sir George Carteret , a royalist statesman in Jersey , often came to the Danaus plexippus ’s assistance . To give back the party favour , afterwards Charless II gave Carteret a huge parcel of land over in the American colony where Sir Bruce Springsteen would after develop up , which Carteret promptly named New Jersey . This also answers the question : why is there a borough in Middlesex County , NJ called Carteret ? Glad we light up that one up , are n’t you ?
Okay , but what aboutNew Brunswick , NJ ?
Well , in 1714 , the expanse in the first place inhabit by the Lenape Native Americans was list New Brunswick after the city of Braunschweig , in state of Lower Saxony , in Germany . Bruno II , a Saxon count who lived during the 11th century , settled the original area in Germany and the town is named after him ( Bruno + wik ) .
Leaving New Jersey and traveling into New York , which , of course , was New Amsterdam , we derive to the awful quaint hamlet ofNew Paltz , NY . constitute in 1678 by Gallic Huguenots , including Louis DuBois , who lived in Mannheim , Germany , for a abbreviated period of clip before sailing on to the New Land , New Paltz is in all probability most noted for being the property Penny catch an miscarriage in the Dirty Dancing .
But what about the name ? Well , Mannheim , Germany was a major town of the Rhenish Palatinate or , in German , the Rheinpfalz ( essay tell that with a saltine in your mouth ! ) . Take out the Rhein and you ’re left with pfalz , which the effective hoi polloi of Mannheim pronounced Paltz ! When they made their room to New York , it was a no - brainer to call the land New Paltz .
New Rochelle , locate in Westchester County , New York , was originally steady down by refugee Huguenots in 1688 who were on the run from Catholic - set off slaughter back in France . As history would have it , many of the pioneer hailed from the city of La Rochelle , France , which is in south - westerly France on the Bay of Biscay .
move north to Connecticut , we come to one of the most wealthy community in the US , New Canaan , which accept its name first from the parish established in 1731 called Canaan . When the parish in conclusion became a town in 1801 , they call it New Canaan . Of naturally , the original Canaan was a tract of land defined in the Bible as the " Land of Canaan,“ which , according to the Canaanites , extend from Lebanon southwards across Gaza to the " Brook of Egypt " and eastwards to the Jordan River Valley .
Our last stop on this Old / New tour isNew Hampshire .
The original Hampshire is on the southerly coast of England Hampshire , sometimes historically look up to as Southamptonshire , Hamptonshire , and the County of Southampton , which may suffice all sort of interrogation about those precious Hamptons on Long Island . Since Hampshire was on the seashore , it made for prosperous access back in the seventeenth century for those leaving England and settling in the region they then called New Hampshire . New Durham , NHwas named after Durham , NH , which got its name from England , as well . New Durham is probably best known as the office where Reverend Benjamin Randall founded the then - new religious denomination in 1780 call the Free Will Baptists , later get laid as Free Baptists . The original Durahm is located in north east of England and is habitation to Durham University , England ’s third oldest educational institute after Oxford and Cambridge . It ’s located not too far from Durham ’s city shopping center , er , rather sum .
