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1 day ago · Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), established in 1664 as proprietary colony; Province of New York, established as a proprietary colony in 1664; chartered as royal colony in 1686; included in the Dominion of New England (1686–1689)
3 days ago · Delaware, U.S. Delaware, constituent state of the United States of America. The first of the original 13 states to ratify the federal Constitution, it occupies a small niche in the Boston – Washington, D.C., urban corridor along the Middle Atlantic seaboard. It ranks 49th among the 50 U.S. states in terms of total area and is one of the most ...
3 days ago · Penn, William: treaty with the Delaware. William Penn negotiating a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians soon after he founded the colony of Pennsylvania. (more) Penn himself sailed in the Welcome for Pennsylvania late in 1682, leaving his family behind, and found his experiment already well under way.
- What was William Penn’s education?William Penn received a classical education at the Chigwell grammar school in Essex, England, and then matriculated at the University of Oxford (16...
- Where did William Penn grow up?Having spent his early years in the Essex countryside, William Penn moved with his family to London and then to Ireland. After he was expelled from...
- What was William Penn’s religion?Penn rejected Anglicanism and joined the Quakers (Society of Friends), who were subject to official persecution in England. He was the author of a...
- What is William Penn best known for?William Penn was an English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and ot...
2 days ago · Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies that participated in the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, in which the American Continental Army, led by George Washington, defeated the British, ended British colonization and established the United States as a sovereign and independent nation.
2 days ago · The middle colonies, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, supported a flourishing export economy based on the production of cereal crops such as wheat, barley, and rye. The fertile soil and moderate climate of the region made it ideal for agriculture, allowing these colonies to become known as the “breadbasket” of ...
3 days ago · Before 1776, Delaware was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, administered by colonial governors in Pennsylvania as the "Lower Counties on Delaware". In 1776, soon after Delaware and the other Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Britain, the state adopted its first state constitution. It created the office of President of ...
3 days ago · In 1802 a French immigrant, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, established a gunpowder mill, the forerunner of the modern gigantic and diversified DuPont industries with their experimental laboratories in Wilmington.
