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Johan Paul Jaquet (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
nity......May, 1654 Vice-Governor Pappegoia returning to Sweden soon, Rising assumes supreme authority as director-general of New Sweden......1654 Gov. Peter Stuyvesant of Manhattan captures forts Trinity and Christiana, sends to Europe all Swedes refusing allegiance to Holland, and brings the colony under Dutch rule......Sept. 16-25, 1655 Governor Rising and companions embark for Sweden on the De Waag, and bid farewell to Delaware......Oct. 1, 1655 Stuyvesant commissions Johan Paul Jaquet governor of the Dutch colony on the Delaware, who selects Fort Casimir as his residence......Nov. 29, 1655 Swedes arriving on the ship Mercurius, not knowing of the change in government, attempt to ascend the river and land, but are dismissed by the Dutch without bloodshed......March 24, 1656 Governor-general and council give seventy-five deeds for land, chiefly for lots in New Amstel, now New Castle. The first made......April 12, 1656 Dutch West India Company transfers to th
Chesapeake (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
e, appointed minister plenipotentiary to France......Feb. 19, 1801 Du Pont powder-mills near Wilmington established by Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont de Nemours......1802 Caesar Rodney, of Delaware, appointed Attorney-General of United States......Jan. 20, 1807 James A. Bayard, one of the negotiators of the treaty of Ghent, signed......Dec. 24, 1814 Caesar Rodney appointed minister plenipotentiary to Buenos Ayres......Jan. 27, 1823 Act passed establishing free schools......1829 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal completed at cost of $2,250,000......1829 Locomotive introduced on New Castle Railroad......1831 Louis McLane, of Delaware, appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury......Aug. 8, 1831 State constitution revised by a convention of thirty delegates at Dover......Nov. 8, 1831 Wilmington made a city......1832 New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, 16 1/2 miles long, completed......1832 Louis McLane appointed United States Secretary of State......May 29
Robert Carr (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
xander Hinoyosa succeeds......Dec. 30, 1659 Colony of the Company surrenders its rights to the Colony of the City......Feb. 7, 1663 Colony passes into British control under the Duke of York......Oct. 1, 1664 New Amstel surrenders to Sir Robert Carr, sent to subject the country by Charles II., and called New Castle......Nov. 3, 1664 Swedish church erected at Crane-hook 1 1/2 miles from Fort Christiana......1667 Temporary council of Deputy-Governor Carr and six others, swearing allGovernor Carr and six others, swearing allegiance to the Duke of York, established at New Castle......1668 Konigsmarke, better known as the Long Finn, instigating rebellion against the Duke of York in Delaware, is arrested and imprisoned in New York; afterwards transported to the Barbadoes......Dec. 20, 1669 George Fox, the Friend, holds a large meeting in New Castle......1672 New Castle incorporated and a constable's court erected......May, 1672 Anthony Clove appointed governor of Delaware under the Dutch, who retake New
Thomas McKean (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
Delaware are defined......1733 James Adams introduces printing into Delaware, publishing at Wilmington, for six months, the Wilmington Courant......1761 Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney sent as delegates to the first Colonial Congress at New York......Oct. 7, 1765 Caesar Rodney chosen commissioner to erect State-house and public buildings in Dover......1772 Thomas McKean, George Read, and Caesar Rodney elected delegates to the first Continental Congress......1774 Assembly unanimously approves resolution of Continental Congress of May 15, and overturns the proprietary government, substituting the name of the province on all occasions for that o Evening after battle of Brandywine, President McKinley captured by a party of British; George Read, speaker of Assembly, succeeds him......Sept. 12, 1777 Thomas McKean, of Delaware, elected President of Continental Congress......July 10, 1781 Richard Basset, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Jacob Broom, John Dickinson, and George Rea
Hutchings G. Burton (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
new constitution framed and submitted to the people, but rejected......Oct. 11, 1853 Amendment to constitution changing day of State elections......Jan. 30, 1855 Henry Dickinson, commissioner from Mississippi, invites the State to join the Confederacy; proposition rejected unanimously by the House and by a majority of the Senate......Jan. 3, 1861 Delaware declares for the Union......April 15, 1861 Delaware added to the Military Department of Washington......April 19, 1861 Governor Burton calls for volunteers for United States army, and obtains a regiment of about 775 three-months' men. (Subsequently two regiments of about 1,000 each were enlisted for the war)......April 23, 1861 A peace convention at Dover resolves against the war and for a peaceable recognition of the Confederacy......June 27, 1861 Delaware raises its quota for volunteer army, under calls of July and August, without drafting; in all about 5,000 men furnished by the State......1862 Governor Can
William Beekman (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
rt Casimir and the adjacent territory of New Amstel, which becomes known as the Colony of the City......Aug. 16, 1656 Jaquet is removed for mismanagement, and Jacob Alrich appointed in Holland as governor of New Amstel......April, 1657 William Beekman appointed vice-governor of the Colony of the Company, with headquarters at Altena, now Wilmington,......Oct. 28, 1658 Beekman secures a deed of land from the Indians, and erects a fort at the Hoorn-kill......May 23, 1659 Governor AlricBeekman secures a deed of land from the Indians, and erects a fort at the Hoorn-kill......May 23, 1659 Governor Alrich dies; Alexander Hinoyosa succeeds......Dec. 30, 1659 Colony of the Company surrenders its rights to the Colony of the City......Feb. 7, 1663 Colony passes into British control under the Duke of York......Oct. 1, 1664 New Amstel surrenders to Sir Robert Carr, sent to subject the country by Charles II., and called New Castle......Nov. 3, 1664 Swedish church erected at Crane-hook 1 1/2 miles from Fort Christiana......1667 Temporary council of Deputy-Governor Carr and six others, s
Henry Dickinson (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
Pea Patch Island, derived from Delaware by United States and from New Jersey by James Humphrey, many years in litigation, awarded to United States by Hon. John Sargeant, referee......Jan. 15, 1848 John Middleton Clayton, of Delaware, negotiates the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with the British government......April, 1850 A new constitution framed and submitted to the people, but rejected......Oct. 11, 1853 Amendment to constitution changing day of State elections......Jan. 30, 1855 Henry Dickinson, commissioner from Mississippi, invites the State to join the Confederacy; proposition rejected unanimously by the House and by a majority of the Senate......Jan. 3, 1861 Delaware declares for the Union......April 15, 1861 Delaware added to the Military Department of Washington......April 19, 1861 Governor Burton calls for volunteers for United States army, and obtains a regiment of about 775 three-months' men. (Subsequently two regiments of about 1,000 each were enlisted for t
Charles McKinley (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
...1774 Assembly unanimously approves resolution of Continental Congress of May 15, and overturns the proprietary government, substituting the name of the province on all occasions for that of the King, and directs the delegates to vote on independence according to their own judgment......June 15, 1776 Convention at New Castle frames a new constitution, assumes the name The Delaware State, and designates Dover as capital......Aug. 27, 1776 Evening after battle of Brandywine, President McKinley captured by a party of British; George Read, speaker of Assembly, succeeds him......Sept. 12, 1777 Thomas McKean, of Delaware, elected President of Continental Congress......July 10, 1781 Richard Basset, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Jacob Broom, John Dickinson, and George Read sign the Constitution of the United States as representatives from Delaware......Sept. 17, 1787 Delaware first State to adopt the federal Constitution, and without amendments......Dec. 7, 1787 New constituti
De La Warr (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
point, tangent to a circle having a radius of 12 miles and with New Castle as its centre. An arc of this circle forms the northern boundary of the State, and separates it from Pennsylvania in about lat. 39° 50′. Delaware River and Bay separate if from New Jersey on the east, and Maryland lies to the south and west. Area, 2,050 square miles, in three counties. Population, 1890, 168,493; 1900, 184,735. Capital, Dover. Henry Hudson discovers the Delaware River......Aug. 28, 1609 Lord de la Warr, governor of Virginia, enters the bay called by his name......1610 Samuel Godyn, a director in the Dutch West India Company, purchases 16 Dutch square miles from the natives, at the mouth of the Delaware......July 25, 1630 David Petersen de Vries makes a small settlement at the Hoorn-kill, now Lewes, just within the entrance to Delaware Bay, and calls it Swanendael......March, 1631 De Vries having left the colony soon after, returns to find it destroyed by the Indians; all the
Finn (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
the City......Feb. 7, 1663 Colony passes into British control under the Duke of York......Oct. 1, 1664 New Amstel surrenders to Sir Robert Carr, sent to subject the country by Charles II., and called New Castle......Nov. 3, 1664 Swedish church erected at Crane-hook 1 1/2 miles from Fort Christiana......1667 Temporary council of Deputy-Governor Carr and six others, swearing allegiance to the Duke of York, established at New Castle......1668 Konigsmarke, better known as the Long Finn, instigating rebellion against the Duke of York in Delaware, is arrested and imprisoned in New York; afterwards transported to the Barbadoes......Dec. 20, 1669 George Fox, the Friend, holds a large meeting in New Castle......1672 New Castle incorporated and a constable's court erected......May, 1672 Anthony Clove appointed governor of Delaware under the Dutch, who retake New York......Aug. 12, 1673 By treaty of Westminster, Delaware reverts to the English, and Sir Edmund Andros r
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