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Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry delaware
Cape Henlopen (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry delaware
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Delaware,
The first of the thirteen original States that ratified the federal Constitution; takes its name from Lord De la Warr (Delaware), who entered the bay of that name in 1610, when he was governor of Virginia.
It had been discovered by Hudson in 1609.
In 1629 Samuel Godyn, a director of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians a tract of land near the mouth of the Delaware; and the next year De Vries, with twenty colonists from Holland, settled near the site of Lewes.
The colony was destroyed by the natives three years afterwards, and the Indians had sole possession of that district until 1638, when a colony of Swedes and Finns
State seal of Delaware. landed on Cape Henlopen, and purchased the lands along the bay and river as far north as the falls at Trenton (see New Sweden). They built Fort Christiana near the site of Wilmington.
Their settlements were mostly planted within the present limits of Pennsylvania.
The Swedes were conquered by the Dutch of
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