The Morris County Library owns several primary information sources relating to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. These include trial transcripts & highlights of the direct and cross-examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and articles from the Hunterdon County Democrat and other newspapers. Most of this information is on microfilm which can be copied (5 cents/page).
How did the state of New Jersey gets it
name?
The name New Jersey was set out in the original 1664 land grant to
Berkeley and Carteret by James, Duke of York (later, James II)
whereof the said James Duke of York,
doth hereby acknowledge, and thereof doth acquit and
discharge the said John Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret
forever by these presents hath granted, bargained, sold,
released and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant,
bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said John Lord
Berkley and Sir George Carteret, their heirs and assigns for
ever, all that tract of land adjacent to New England, and
lying and being to the westward of Long Island, and Manhitas
Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part
by Hudson's river, and hath upon the west Delaware bay or
river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as
Cape May at the mouth of the Delaware bay; and to the
northward as far as the northermost branch of the said bay or
river of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty
minutes of latitude, and crosseth over thence in a strait
line to Hudson's river in forty-one degrees of latitude;
which said tract of land is hereafter to be called by the
name or names of New Caeserea or New Jersey ...
The name came from the Isle of Jersey, where Carteret had been Royal Governor when King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, sought shelter on the 45 square mile island, during the English Civil War.
http://www.ushistory.org/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html
King Charles 2, in 1664, whose claim to New England gave him power to
claim to the southward, being unwilling to sanction the prosperity of the
Dutch, as a separate community, granted patent to his brother James, Duke
of York and Albany, of lands in America, including all that the Dutch then
held as their New Netherlands. The Dutch reluctantly submitted, New York
being named after the conquering duke.
The Duke of York, possessed of the Jerseys, Granted same to Sir George
Carteret, who came from the Isle of Jersey. His intention was to call same
in honor of his family, Nova Cesaria, but the people preferred to call it
by a name they could better understand, to wit the Jerseys. (The Indian
name of the Jerseys was Scheyichbi.)
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