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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JerseyJoe, post: 1015406, member: 27531&quot;]Hi cubenewb,</p><p><br /></p><p>All four of my grandparents are from families who were original European settlers of the Mullica river area of Southern New Jersey. One branch of my father&#039;s family still live on the land they acquired in a grant from King James II in 1682. The writ still exists in the Atlantic County heritage museum. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s fairly well accepted that &#039;New Jersey&#039; was named after Sir George Carteret, a former 17th century governor of the English held Jersey Isles of the coast of France, in honour of his service to the crown during the Cromwell period. Sir George was one of the first large landholders in New Jersey. He and Lord Berkeley virtually owned the entire state at one time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prevailing theory for how the Jersey Isles acquired their name, is as a corruption of the Roman appellation: &#039;Nova C<i>æ</i>sarea&#039; -pronounced: &#039;Nova chez-ár-ee-uh&#039;, not &#039;chez-uh-ree-uh&#039;. Thus Chez-ár-ee became Jersey. </p><p><br /></p><p>I never heard of Geír. Perhaps you are thinking of &#039;Eyre <i>Haven&#039;&nbsp; </i>which is Dutch for &#039;egg harbour&#039;, the original name<i> of </i>the coastal area of what is now Atlantic county New Jersey, and also the former name of the Mullica river, and the modern town of Egg Harbor, and the old town of Egg Harbor which is now New Gretna. There is also an Egg Harbor township in Atlantic County New Jersey and a great Egg Harbor river.&nbsp; Apparently sea gulls and other shore birds nested in the marshes here in great numbers and eggs were abundant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nova C<i>æ</i>sarea is to New Jersey as New Amsterdam is to New York. But I don&#039;t believe the term Nova Caesarea was ever popularly used. But people in my area think &#039;I&#039;m&#039; the dummy when I mention that New Jersey was once also known as Nova C<i>æsarea. </i>The laugh&#039;s on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>A 12th generation piney.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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