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Delaware, first settled by Scandinavian Lutherans and Dutch Reformed, with later infusions of English Quakers and Welsh Baptists, had perhaps the most diverse beginnings of any middle colony. Yet over the eighteenth century Delaware became increasingly British, with the Church of England showing the most striking gains before the Revolution.
Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies which revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. After the Revolution began in 1776, the three Lower Counties became "The Delaware State", and in 1776 that entity adopted its first constitution, declaring itself to be the "Delaware State".
Delaware Colony was a North American colony. It was in land on the bank of the Delaware River Bay. People settled to here in the 1600s. The first people here were Lenape and possibly the Assateague tribes of Native Americans. The first European settlers were Swedes. In the 1700s, Delaware Colony's English colonists were mostly quaker.
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1631 – Delaware becomes an early Dutch Settlement. 1631- A fort is built on the first Dutch Settlement on Cape Henlopen on Lewes Creek, in the Zwaanendael Colony. 1638 – Swedish colony of ‘New Sweden’ is the first permanent European settlement in Delaware. 1643 – Governor Johan Björnsson Printz administers the colony until 1653.
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The Duke of York transfers control of the Delaware colony to English Quaker William Penn, who receives possession in New Castle by tokens of a twig, water and soil . 1684-1736 The colonial government of Maryland lays claim to southern and western Delaware, so Col. George Talbot builds a small fort near the present town of Christiana . 1689
Mar 7, 2024 · Delaware, a confederation of Algonquian -speaking North American Indians who occupied the Atlantic seaboard from Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to western Long Island. Before colonization, they were especially concentrated in the Delaware River valley, for which the confederation was named. However, the people traditionally refer to themselves as ...
