John Berkeley, First Baron Berkeley Of Stratton

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 28 August 1678) was an English royalist soldier. Berkeley married Christiana Riccard, daughter of Sir Andrew Riccard, a wealthy
London merchant, in the East India Company; she had already been married first to Sir John Geare, and subsequently (14 February 1659) to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington, son of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of
Warwick. He left three sons, each of whom succeeded in his turn to the title, and one daughter, Anne, who married Sir Dudley Cullum, Bart., of Hanstead, Suffolk. The title became extinct in 1773. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and rose to prominence, fortune and fame. He and Sir George Carteret were the founders of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Berkeley was co­proprietor of New
Jersey from 1664 to 1674. In 1665, Berkeley and Sir George Carteret drafted the Concession and
Agreement, a proclamation for the structure of the government for the Province of New Jersey. The document also provided freedom of religion in the colony. Berkeley sold his share to a group of
Quakers because of the political difficulties between New York Governor Richard Nicolls, Carteret, and himself. This effectively split New Jersey into two colonies: East Jersey, belonging to Carteret, and
West Jersey. The division remained until 1702 when West Jersey went bankrupt; the Crown then took back and subsequently re­unified the colony.

Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 18 January 1680), son of Elias de Carteret, was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer