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5 days ago · Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warr (born July 9, 1577—died June 7, 1618, at sea off the coast of Virginia or New England) was one of the English founders of Virginia, for whom Delaware Bay, the Delaware River, and the state of Delaware were named.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · 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.
4 days ago · Contains J. Thomas Scharf's History of Delaware, 1609-1888, which is a comprehensive history of Delaware and its people. This database will ultimately include the complete text of late 19th century histories of cities and counties of the original thirteen states (with the exception of Virginia), plus Vermont and Maine.
- Sabine Lanteri
- 2011
2 days ago · The oldest permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley was established on the site by Swedes in 1638. Called Fort Christina, it was captured by Peter Stuyvesant’s Dutch forces in 1655. The Dutch, who named the place Altena, were ousted by the English in 1664.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · This is where Haefeli steps in, relying on close readings of Dutch and English primary sources and building on the recent work of Jaap Jacobs, Willem Frijhoff, Benjamin J. Kaplan, Ned C. Landsman, Maarten Prak, and other historians.
3 days ago · The first permanent settlement in North America was the English colony at Jamestown, in 1607, in what is now Virginia. John Smith and company had come to stay. The Pilgrims followed, in 1620, and set up a colony at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts.
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2 days ago · Oak Hill Cemetery was founded by Mr. William W. Corcoran, banker and founder of the Riggs National Bank, which is now known as PNC Bank today. A man of many tastes and philanthropies (e.g. the Corcoran Art Gallery), Mr. Corcoran purchased 15 acres along Rock Creek in 1848 from George Corbin Washington (a distinguished lawyer and a great-nephew ...
