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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
s designed to guard some obstructions in the river there. Other formidable obstructions were placed in the river below forts Mifflin and Mercer, in the form of chevaux-de-frise—sunken crates of stones, with heavy spears of iron-pointed timber, to receive and pierce the bows of vessels. Besides these, there were floating batteries on the river. See Mercer, Fort; Mifflin, Fort. Governors of Delaware: under the Swedes. Name.Date. Peter Minuit1638 to 1640 Peter Hollender1640 to 1642 Johan Printz1643 to 1652 Johan Pappegoia.1653 to 1654 Johan C. Rising1654 to 1655 under the Dutch. Peter Stuyvesant 1655 to 1664 governors of Delaware: English colonial. From 1664 up to 1682, under the government of New York; and from 1683 up to 1773, under the proprietary government of Pennsylvania. State. Name.Date. John McKinley1776 to 1777 Caesar Rodney1778 to 1781 John Dickinson1782to 1783 John Cook1783 Nicholas Van Dyke1784 to 1786 Thomas Collins1786 to 1789 Joshua Clayton
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
Sweden, arrives with new immigrants at Christiana just as the colony had resolved to break up......April 11, 1640 Dutch settlement made a few miles from Christiana under a hereditary fief grant from the crown of Sweden......Nov. 2, 1640 Johan Printz, a Swede, appointed governor of New Sweden, arrives at Christiana with two vessels of war......Feb. 15, 1643 Fifth Swedish expedition arrives at Christiana......March 11, 1644 Dutch States-General and West India Company secure from the Indians a deed to all lands between Christiana Creek and Canarosse, the same which had been sold to the Swedes by the Indians, and erect Fort Casimir, now New Castle......July 19, 1651 Governor Printz, returning home, appoints his son-in-law, Johan Pappegoia, governor of the colony......October, 1652 Johan Claudii Rising, arriving at Fort Casimir, in the ship Eagle, direct from Sweden, with reinforcements for the colony in New Sweden, demands its surrender, takes the fort without bloodshed
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
as mouth of the Schuylkill......1616 Cornelius Mey ascends the Delaware River, and builds Fort Nassau, on the east side, nearly opposite the present Philadelphia......1623 [This first occupation by the Dutch is soon abandoned.] Swedish government sends out two vessels, the Key of Calmar and the Griffin, with a few Swedes; entering the Delaware, they erect a fort near the mouth of Christiana Creek, called Fort Christiana in honor of the then Queen of Sweden......1638 Swedish Governor Printz fixes his residence on Tinicum Island, a few miles below Philadelphia, and builds a fort for defence......1643 [First European settlement in Pennsylvania.] Swedes settle Upland (now Chester), first town settled in Pennsylvania......1643 Dutch from New York capture the Swedish forts on the Delaware, and take possession of the country......Sept. 25, 1655 This territory surrendered to the English......September, 1664 Dutch recover possession for a few months, 1673, but the p