Complex sentence: This arrangement lasted for approximately thirty years, but because of issues of administration, the proprietors of both colonies surrendered their right to government to Queen Anne On 17 April 1702, and New Jersey was transformed into a crown colony.
Split into simpler sentences: This arrangement lasted for approximately thirty years, but because of issues of administration, the proprietors of both colonies surrendered their right to government to Queen Anne. On April 17,1702, New Jersey was transformed into a crown colony.