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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.
Delaware had no established religion at this time. The American Revolutionary War began in April 1775, and on June 15, 1776, the Delaware Assembly voted to break all ties with Great Britain, creating the independent State of Delaware. [1] On July 4, 1776, Delaware joined 12 other British colonies to form the United States of America.
Moved from Chester, PA to Wilmington, DE in 1958 Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) Wilmington, Delaware: 1698 Religious Oldest Swedish Church in the United States Brecknock: Camden, Delaware: ca. 1700 Residence Dutch House: Newcastle, Delaware: 1701 Residence Built either in the mid 1690s or 1701. Historic home and museum Maston House: Seaford ...
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)
Zwaanendael or Swaanendael / ˈ z w ɑː n ən d ɛ l / was a short-lived Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch for "swan valley." The site of the settlement later became the town of Lewes, Delaware.
The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [3] Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley , Long Island , and northern New Jersey , reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used ...
University of Delaware, Division of Urban Affairs – via HathiTrust. (fulltext) Carol Hoffecker (1974). Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830-1910. University Press of Virginia – via State of Delaware, Delaware Public Archives. (fulltext) David W. Singleton (1975). "Firefighting Productivity in Wilmington: A Case History".
The ships reached Delaware Bay in March 1638, and the settlers began to build a fort at the site of present-day Wilmington, Delaware. They named it Fort Christina, in honor of the twelve-year-old Queen Christina of Sweden. It was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley. [4]