While the Concessions and Agreements were not an effective enticement for immigration from England they were a major incentive for an influx of settlers from New England and Long Island, where many, such as Quakers, had experienced religious persecution; others were desirous of new lands and opportunities. Future settlers were to be seen as naturalized, with all the rights provided by the Concessions, by swearing allegiance to the King and faithfulness to the interests of the Lord Proprietors.
The Concessions and Agreements, signed in , was an extremely important document, which established a representative form of self-government, set civic responsibilities and guaranteed personal freedoms in New Jersey years before the Revolution. A key provision of the Concessions, which became of central importance in the next century, was that taxes could only be levied by the representative Assembly of the New Jersey for the sole use to support the Province.
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Click here for Sanborn maps of other New Jersey towns and cities. Below is a selection of the maps covering Carteret, N. Carteret was originally created as the borough of Roosevelt on April 11, , from portions of Woodbridge Township. The name was changed permanently to Carteret as of November 7,
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