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Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
rom 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 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 Ind
Frederica (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
editor......1875 Act passed imposing a fine on any person taking part in any political torchlight parade......1881 High license bill passed by legislature......1889 Pillory and whipping for female convicts abolished......1889 Monument over grave of Caesar Rodney, 1728-84, member of Continental Congress, signer of Declaration of Independence, and president (governor) of the State, unveiled......Oct. 30, 1889 A secret-ballot law passed, and the governor made president of the State board of education instead of the president of Delaware College at session of the legislature......Jan. 6–May 16, 1891 Ex-Gov. John W. Hall dies at Frederica......Jan. 23, 1892 Inland waterway between Lewes and Chincoteague Bay, 75 miles long, begun......1893 Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Old Swedish Church celebrated......June, 1893 Thomas F. Bayard dies at Dedham, Mass.......Sept. 28, 1898 Deadlock in senatorial election not broken......1901 District of Columbi
Amsterdam (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
nor 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 the city of Amsterdam Fort 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 Governo
Gunning Bedford (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
s 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 constitution, framed by a convention at New Castle, changes the name to The State of Delaware, and goes into operation without submission to the people......June, 1792 Act appropriating receipts from marriage and tavern licenses for a sc
De Vries (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
. 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 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
Du Pont (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
tion without submission to the people......June, 1792 Act appropriating receipts from marriage and tavern licenses for a school fund......1796 James A. Bayard, of Delaware, 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 G.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, 1833 Explosion of 5,000 lbs. of powder at Du Pont's powder-mills, Wilmington......April 18, 1847 Title to 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
John Dickinson (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
ing 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 constitution, framed by a convention at New Castle, changes the name to The State of Delaware, and goes into operation without submission to the people......June, 1792 Act appropriating receipts from marriage and tavern licenses for a school fund......1796 James A.
Dutch (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
rt Casimir, in the ship Eagle, direct from Sweden, with reinforcements for the colony in New Sweden, demands its surrender, takes the fort without bloodshed, and renames it Fort Trinity......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-
Richard Basset (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
irects 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 constitution, framed by a convention at New Castle, changes the name to The State of Delaware, and goes into operation without submission to the people......June, 1792 Act appropriating receipts from marriage and taver
Edward Bulwer (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-delaware
wn Railroad, 16 1/2 miles long, completed......1832 Louis McLane appointed United States Secretary of State......May 29, 1833 Explosion of 5,000 lbs. of powder at Du Pont's powder-mills, Wilmington......April 18, 1847 Title to 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 Mili
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