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    The Delaware Colony, officially known as the three "Lower Counties on the Delaware", was a semiautonomous region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania...
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  • whom the following were named: Delaware, the U.S. state Delaware Colony, English colony (1664–1707) then British colony (1707–76) preceding statehood Lenape...
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    from the adjacent Delaware Bay, which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia's first...
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    become the Province of New Jersey and the Province of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Colony later separated from Pennsylvania, which was founded by William Penn...
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    Haven Colony was a small English colony in Connecticut Colony from 1638 to 1664, with outposts in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The...
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    counties on Delaware, a separate colony within the Pennsylvania Province, broke away during the American Revolution and was established as the Delaware State...
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    end of the Swedish colony in Delaware as an official entity, but it remained a semi-autonomous unit within the New Netherland colony and the cultural,...
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    landed along the shores of the Delaware to establish a whaling colony in the mid-Atlantic of the New World. The colony lasted only until 1632, when De...
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    were known by the name Delaware as early as 1641. The state of Delaware was originally part of the William Penn's Pennsylvania colony. In 1682, the Duke of...
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    slavery in Delaware began when it was Delaware Colony and continued until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865. The Delaware River...
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  • another Dutch expedition to the Delaware River, attacked all the Swedish communities and forcibly ended the New Sweden colony, incorporating the whole area...
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    Castle and the land below it on the Delaware Bay should be separated from Maryland and administered as a new colony. In 1681, William Penn received his...
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    been transferred from New York Colony in 1682. In 1701 these counties became a separate colony called Delaware Colony, although it shared the same colonial...
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    Delaware. Retrieved February 27, 2018. "Beach". Sea Colony. Sea Colony. Retrieved March 16, 2021. "Climate Statistics for Bethany Beach, Delaware"....
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    New Sweden (category Wilmington, Delaware)
    Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New...
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    the land on the western side of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay was governed as part of the New York Colony and administered from the town of New...
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    states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The colony was originally conceived by the...
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    broke from Pennsylvania to form the Delaware Colony. Among the 13 colonies, the Province of Maryland was the only colony with a substantial Catholic population...
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    Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New...
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    The institution was founded in 1636 by a vote of the legislature of the colony to provide money for "a school or college" at Newtowne (the present Cambridge)...
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    John Morton (American politician) (category Politicians from Delaware County, Pennsylvania)
    Salomon Ilmonen, who researched Delaware and John Morton for Delaware's 300th anniversary. Thanks to the Delaware colony and John Morton, American Finns'...
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  • This is a list of the individual Delaware year pages. In 1776, the Delaware General Assembly of Delaware Colony voted to break all ties with the British...
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    New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, with the exception of the Delaware Colony and the Province of Pennsylvania. The region's political structure...
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    dragged on, William Penn granted the Delaware Colony its own legislature in 1701, establishing it as a separate colony. The dispute over the boundaries of...
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    Province of New Jersey Province of Pennsylvania Delaware Colony Southern Colonies Province of Maryland Colony of Virginia Province of North Carolina Province...
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    Valentine Hollingsworth (category Burials in New Castle County, Delaware)
    13, 1710) was an Irish Quaker settler of Brandywine Hundred in the Delaware Colony in the late 17th century. Hollingsworth was born to Henry and Catherine...
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    Pennsylvania were granted permission to form a new, semi-autonomous Delaware Colony. As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote...
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    Mason–Dixon line (category Borders of Delaware)
    additional grant of the "Three Lower Counties" along Delaware Bay, which later became the Delaware Colony, a satellite of Pennsylvania. Maryland considered...
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    with the Delaware Valley. Eventually, the Dutch, who had maintained that their claim to Delaware arose from the colony of 1631, recaptured Delaware and incorporated...
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    was known as the Colony of The city. On December 22, 1663, the Dutch transferred property rights to the territory along the Delaware River to England...
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