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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.
Nautical chart of the Dutch colony Zwaanendael and Godyn's Bay (Delaware Bay), 1639 The Delaware watershed was claimed by the English based on the explorations of John Cabot in 1497, Captain John Smith , and others and was given the name of a title held by Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , the governor of Virginia from 1610 until 1618.
A palisaded fort was built, with the "red lion, rampant," of Holland affixed to its gate, and the country was named Swaanendael or Zwaanendael Colony, while the water was called Godyn's Bay (now Delaware Bay). The existence of the little colony was short, for the Indians came down upon it as the result of a misunderstanding and it was destroyed ...
In 1610 captain Samuel Argall named Delaware Bay in honor of Lord De La Warr. Shortly afterwards Dutch settlers along the bay gave it a different name, but the name Delaware Bay was restored when the English took control of the area in 1665. [14] Lord De La Warr contracted malaria or scurvy in 1611.
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km 2 ) in area, [ 2 ] the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean .
De Vries Palisade, also known as DeVries Palisade of 1631, is an archaeological site located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It is the site of the Zwaanendael Colony, the first permanent European presence on the Delaware Bay in 1631, settled by a group of settlers under David Pietersz. de Vries. The settlers landed near this spot to form a ...
Three of the New England Colonies had established churches prior to the Revolutionary War, all Congregational (Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), while the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations had no established churches. [123]
It has often been reported that the river and bay received the name "Delaware" after English forces under Richard Nicolls expelled the Dutch and took control of the New Netherland colony in 1664. [10] [11] However, the river and bay were known by the name Delaware as early as 1641. [12]