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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
onopoly of land. A company was soon formed to colonize the tract acquired by Godyn and Blommaert. The first settlement in Delaware, older than any in Pennsylvania, Chap. XV.} 1630. was undertaken by a company, of which Godyn, Van Rensselaer, Blommaert, the historian De Laet, 1630. and a new partner, David Pietersen de Vries, were members. By joint enterprise, in December, 1630, Murphy's Voyages of De Vries. Brodhead's History, 205, 207, 220. a ship of eighteen guns, commanded by Pieter Heyes and laden with emigrants, store of seeds, cattle, and agricultural implements, embarked from the Texel, partly to cover the southern shore of Delaware Bay with fields of wheat and tobacco, and partly for the whale-fishery on the coast. A yacht which went in company, was taken by a Dunkirk privateer; early in the spring of 1631 the larger vessel reached its des- 1631. tination, and just within Cape Henlopen, on Lewes Creek, planted a colony of more than thirty souls. The superintendence