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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
he Indians; all the settlers killed......Dec. 5, 1632 Owners of Swanendael transfer their interest in the property to the directors of the Dutch West India Company......Feb. 7, 1635 First permanent settlement of Europeans in Delaware by Swedes under Peter Minuit, a former director of the Dutch West India Company at Manhattan. They locate at Christiana, within the present limits of Wilmington, build a fort and erect a church within its walls, and name the territory New Sweden ......March, 1638 Minuit buys from five chiefs the Minquas territory on west side of the Delaware, from Bombay Hook to the river Schuylkill, with no western boundary specified......March 29, 1638 Protest against Swedish settlement by William Kieft, director-general of the New Netherlands, on claim of prior possession by the Dutch......May 6, 1638 Peter Minuit having been drowned in a storm at sea off the West Indies, Lieut. Peter Hollender, commissioned governor of New Sweden, arrives with new imm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
e......October, 1637 Rev. John Wheelwright, brother of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, disfranchised and banished for supporting her......Nov. 2, 1637 He journeys to New Hampshire and founds Exeter......1637 Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, under sentence of banishment, is committed to Joseph Welde, of Roxbury, for safe-keeping, until the court shall dispose of her......Nov. 2, 1637 She is excommunicated, sent out of the jurisdiction, and retires to Narraganset Bay, where her husband had gone......March, 1638 John Harvard, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, bequeaths his library and half of his estate, which amounted to £ 700, for a college......Sept. 14, 1638 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company organized as the Military Company of Boston......February, 1638 Rev. John Harvard dies at Charlestown......Sept. 14, 1638 Three thousand emigrants arrive from England during......1638 Printing-press established at Cambridge by Stephen Daye......March, 1639 Colleg