Delaware Colony

Delaware Colony was a North American colony. It was in land on the bank of the Delaware River Bay. People settled to here in the 1600s. The first people here were Lenape and possibly the Assateague tribes of Native Americans. The first European settlers were Swedes. In the 1700s, Delaware Colony's English colonists were mostly quaker.

Lower Counties on the Delaware Bay
1664–1776
Flag
Delaware in 1757
Status	Colony of England (1664–1707) Colony of Great Britain (1707–76)
Capital	New Castle
Common languages	English, Dutch, Munsee, Unami
Government	Constitutional monarchy
Legislature	General Assembly of Delaware Colony
History
• Established	1664
• Independence	1776
Currency	Delaware pound
Preceded by Succeeded by New Netherland Delaware
Today part of	United States

The Lower Counties of Delaware were governed from Pennsylvania from 1682 until 1701. The Lower Counties then petitioned to become a colony. This made the two colonies independent. They had the same governor until 1776. At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the colonies decided to create the state of Delaware.

Sources

• Johnson, Amandus. The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638–1664 (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1911)
• Weslager, C. A. A Man and His Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel ( Kalmar Nyckel Foundation. Wilmington, Delaware. 1989)

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