When Did New Jersey Become English? It Was Dutch First

New Jersey was never an English colony from the start. It began as part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (1614–1664).

• 1664: English fleet seizes New Netherland; renamed New York (for Duke of York).
• 1664–1674: New Jersey carved out as a separate proprietary colony—granted to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
• 1674–1702: Divided into East Jersey and West Jersey.
• 1702: Reunited as a single royal colony under the English (later British) Crown.

So: Dutch → English conquest → proprietary colony → royal colony. The "English" period begins effectively in 1664, but the territory's colonial identity was Dutch for its first 50 years.