Actually, GLG is a scam -. I received an invitation from one of their representatives to do consultations for GLG, as have many others and was left with the impression that opportunities would be presented to me provided that I submitted applications for open consulting projects.
Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located. The Dutch, Swedes, and Finns were the first European settlers in New Jersey. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey's first permanent European settlement. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to their colonies.
New Jersey was a royal colony of England, meaning that the colonists of New Jersey owed their allegiance to the King of England even though the colonists were not on English soil. But even though they owed him their allegiance, the colonists did most of the things in the colony according to their rules, as the King was usually busy with other matters of state in Europe or foreign wars.