CH2 Colonial Adolescence 1762-1763

Royal Colony of New Jersey established by Queen Anne from separate provinces of East New Jersey and West New Jersey. The Queen Anne's War ends with the French signing a treaty in the series of Treaties of Utrecht to give Nova Scotia to the British.

Freedom of the Press became recognized in New York after the trial of John Peter Zenger, who had been accused of libeling the British Government in his Weekly Journal. Zenger was acquitted.