Show 4 S THE STORY 0 OF F i j J OUR STATES STATE S i i by JONATHAN BRACE t 4 f t p 1 ac by mcclure Alc Clure newspaper syndicate NEW JERSEY JERSEY became NEW thi h phird IVA 53 state stale just junt t ailer pennsylvania nin told had r formally formal 0 r in a I 1 lv adopted the consal till this territory which covers square quire i miles originally nully was as a A of the lii pro province Nince of new netherlands lands in igge after the hie engelh enell En sll conquest of new netherlands the I 1 lie duke it york sold tile lie southern pr artion tion to loril lord berkeley and sir george carteret the later hod adil wn some lis ills as governor ot or tile the island of jersey in ili the engleh li clion honnel nol all and it was in its ils lionor honor that the new province edme to ile he called new jersey the ebern portion that shout newark XeN wax settled hy by carteret ir and the terri territory tor to the whore burlington find and trenton now low SUMI sti ali fell to lo berkeley after a few acors berkeley sold old s liis his to it a party or of quakers and two distinct Us provinces province were formed called ea aas t lind and west jersey they were reunited lir however wever in 1702 and become a single pi vInce under the direct rulo of tile gliSh crown cron new jersey casts cast fourteen electoral votes voles for rf r F ORGIA FORGIA NT JANUARY 2 I 1 or 0 4 0 georigia geora Ge orizia N C C 0 accepted the con I 1 n and aar be jf ate i collie ohp foth laa lA 7 0 state in th union a the set settlement t lement of 0 aff Cool gla was conceived as it i buffer against the ali t pi lations flat lons of the spaniards and indans allore ll lore p invasion of S iila carolina Carol hin lind readied n climac in 1715 i a I 1 raid in which four or rive five hundred bettl settler pr had lieen been ma mn acred to protect south carolinn carolina brouil future ini ln ands james ta oglethorpe planned lanned li 1 a I colony to the anuth and in 1722 lie he obtain obtained ined ea from frocil george 11 II a grunt grant of land TIO tile new territory was consequently named georgia Geor fria after the ddn king the devil ceeil states that the land was vlas grunted granted in ili trust for the hie poor this referred to plan to have Is as tile hie settlers alers the insolvent debtors who lie ac cording to the luas of that time thrle in ili england were cast in prison many of these were relented from froin pr prisons loiis ind and re enforced by some germans and scotch highlanders High landers fo founded the to town vii of savannah in 1733 and in rapidly spread pread up and down file coat anere where successful plantations of rice and indigo soon became established georgia to prosper proper I 1 irell the population ot of its square miles entitles entities it to a representation of 14 presidential electors |