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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.
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.
A map of the Thirteen Colonies (in red) and nearby colonial areas (1763–1775) just before the Revolutionary War. In response, the colonies formed bodies of elected representatives known as Provincial Congresses, and colonists began to boycott imported British merchandise. [62]
The lower counties on Delaware, a separate colony within the Pennsylvania Province, broke away during the American Revolution and was established as the Delaware State and also became one of the original thirteen states. The colony attracted English Quakers, Germans, and Scots-Irish frontiersmen.
On March 4, 1681, what had been the colony of New Sweden was formally partitioned into the colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The border was established 12 miles north of New Castle, and the northern limit of Pennsylvania was set at 42 degrees north latitude.
Delaware was primarily referred to as a "state" in its 1776 Constitution; however, the term commonwealth was also used in one of its articles. [12] Two U.S. territories are also designated as commonwealths: Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The location of the state of Delaware in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the state of Delaware An enlargeable map of the 3 counties of the state of Delaware. Indigenous peoples; Netherlands colony of Nieuw-Nederland, 1624–1652; Swedish colony of Nya Sverige, 1638–1655; Netherlands province of Nieuw-Nederland, 1652–1664
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...