Delaware Biographical and Genealogical History -Vol 1&2

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Biographical and Genealogical
History
Of The
State of Delaware
Containing
Biographical and Genealogical
Sketches of
Prominent and Representative Citizens
And Many of the Early Settlers
In Two Volumes
By J. M. Runk & Co.
Published 1899
780 + 853 pages, illustrated, searchable
- Bonus Book
-
Once Upon A Time In Delaware
By Katherine Pyle, 1911 Second Edition
172 pages, illustrated, searchable
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The
Delaware River
watershed was claimed by the British based on the explorations of John
Cabot in 1497, Captain John Smith
and others, and was given the name held as a title by Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr,
the Governor of Virginia from 1610
until 1618. At that time the area was considered to be part of the
Virginia
colony.
However, the Dutch thought they also had a claim, based on the 1609 explorations of Henry
Hudson, and under the auspices of
the Dutch West India Company were the first Europeans
to actually occupy the land. They
established trading posts in 1624 at
"Hooghe Eyland" (
High
Island
), now
Burlington
Island
, opposite
Burlington
,
New Jersey
,
in 1626 at
Fort
Nassau
, now
Gloucester
City
,
New Jersey
, and at Zwaanendael, now
Lewes
,
Delaware
in 1631. Peter Minuit was the Dutch Director-General of the New
Netherlands during this period and probably spent some time at the
Burlington
Island
post,
thereby familiarizing himself with the region.
In any case, Minuit had a falling out with the directors of the Dutch West India Company,
was recalled from the New Netherlands,
and promptly made his services available to his many friends in
Sweden
, then a major
power in European politics. They established
a New Sweden Company and, following much
negotiation, he led a group under the flag of
Sweden
to the
Delaware River
in 1638.
They established a trading post at
Fort
Christina
, now in
Wilmington
,
Delaware
. Minuit
claimed possession of the western side of
the
Delaware River
, saying he had found no
European settlement there. Unlike the Dutch West India Company, the Swedes
intended to actually bring settlers to their outpost and begin a colony.
While the Dutch settlement at Zwaanendael, or present day Lewes, was soon destroyed in a
war with native Americans, the
Dutch never gave up their claim to the area and, in 1651, under
the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, built
Fort
Casimir
, now
New Castle
,
Delaware
. Three years later, in 1654, Johan Rising, the Swedish governor captured
Fort
Casimir
from Dutch. For the Swedes, this
was a catastrophic miscalculation as the next
summer, 1655, an enraged Stuyvesant led another Dutch expedition to the Delaware
River, attacked all the Swedish communities and forcibly ended the New Sweden colony,
incorporating the whole area back
into the
New Netherland
colony
It was not long, though, before the Dutch too were forcibly removed by the British, who
asserted its earlier claim. In 1664,
James, the Duke of
York
and brother of King Charles II,
outfitted an expedition that easily ousted the Dutch from both the
Delaware
and
Hudson
Rivers
, leaving the Duke of York the proprietary authority in the entire
area.
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