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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.
The history of Delaware as a political entity dates back to the early colonization of North America by ... Delaware: The History Of Delaware Colony, 1638–1776 (2004)
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 Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), established in 1664 as proprietary colony; ... Colonial America: A History to 1763 (4th ed.).
Swedish overseas colonies. Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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 ...
The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European ... was a Swedish colony that existed along the Delaware River Valley from 1638 to 1655 and ...
After Muncietown was selected as Delaware County’s seat of justice in 1827, three settlers — William Brown, Lemuel Jackson and Goldsmith Gilbert — donated property to the state for a county ...