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This category includes people who were notable in the Delaware Colony prior to the era of American Revolution.That is, they were notable before about 1765. People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Delaware in the American Revolution, instead of this category.
The Delaware Colony, officially known as the three Lower Counties on the Delaware, was a semiautonomous region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania and a de facto British colony in North America. [1] Although not royally sanctioned, Delaware consisted of the three counties on the west bank of the Delaware River Bay.
Flag of Delaware Location of Delaware on the U.S. map. This is a list of all people prominent enough to be contained in Wikipedia who were associated with the U.S. state of Delaware, including those who were born, lived or were otherwise associated with locally performed activities in a recognizable way.
Myers, Albert Cook ed., Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630–1707 (1912) Ward, Christopher Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, 1609- 1664 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930) Wiener, Roberta and James R. Arnold. Delaware: The History Of Delaware Colony, 1638–1776 (2004) Weslager, C. A.
The seven remaining ships arrived at Jamestown only to bring diseased and hungry passengers to the stressed colony. [50] [51] Council members in bold. [6] [7] Those who died in Bermuda (or were lost at sea) are indicated with a Latin cross ( ️). Titles and occupations are from era accounts, but use modern British spellings.
Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784) [2] was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware.He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence ...
The stories of the pirates who once sailed southern Delaware’s coastal waters live on in the minds of area residents. Pirates of Fenwick Island: How buried coins, ghostly sounds keep the legend ...
Subsequently, in November 1609, the Powhatans killed John Ratcliffe, the Jamestown Colony's Council President, and attacked the colony in what became the First Anglo-Powhatan War. [12] As part of England's response, De La Warr recruited and equipped a contingent of 150 men and outfitted three ships at his own expense, and sailed from England in ...