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|conventional_long_name = Delaware Colony
|common_name            = Delaware
|continent              = North America
|country                = United States
|status                 = Colony
|empire                 = United Kingdom
|government_type        = Constitutional monarchy
|event_start            =
|year_start             = 1664
|event_end              = [[United States Declaration of Independence|Independence]]
|year_end               = 1776
|date_end               =
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|s1                     = Delaware
|flag_s1                = Flag_of_Delaware.svg
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|capital                = New Castle, Delaware|New Castle
|common_languages       = English
|currency               = Pound sterling
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|legislature            = General Assembly of Delaware Colony
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'''Delaware Colony''' in the North American [[Middle Colonies]] was a region of the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] although never legally a separate [[colony]]. From 1682 until 1776 it was part of the Penn proprietorship and was known as the lower counties. In 1701 it gained a separate Assembly from the three upper counties but had the same Governor as the rest of Pennsylvania.

==  Dutch and Swedish Settlement==

The first European exploration of what would become the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] ship [[''[[Halve Maen'']]'' under the command of [[Henry Hudson]] in 1609.  Follow-up expeditions by [[Cornelius May]] in 1613, and [[Cornelius Hendricksen]] in 1614 mapped the shoreline of what would become Delaware for inclusion in the [[New Netherlland]] colony.  Initial Dutch settlement was centered up river at what is today [[Philadelphia]] and across the river from it.  The first attempt to settle Europeans in the territories that would become the State of Delaware was not made until 1629 when agents of the [[Dutch Wet India Co(contracted; show full) ''The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America.'' New York: Sachem Publishing Associates, Inc., pp. 106-108.</ref> The [[Swedish colonization of the Americas|New Sweden Company]] was organized and overseen by [[Clas Fleming (admiral)|Clas Larsson Fleming]], a Swedish admiral and administrator. [[Samuel Blommaert]], a [[Flemish people|Flemish]] director of the [[Dutch West India Company]]  who had grown frustrated with the company's policies assisted the fitting-out
  <ref> ''A History of the Kalmar Nyckel and a New Look at New Sweden'' by John R.Henderson [http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/kalmar.html]</ref>  The expedition was led, and had been instigated by [[Peter Minuit]], the founding governor of [[New Netherland]] who had been dismissed by the Dutch West India Company which operated the colony as a concession.  Minuit resented the company and was welll aware of the spareness of Dutch occupation along the ''Zuyd'&(contracted; show full)[[Category:States and territories established in 1664]]
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[[it:Colonia del Delaware]]
[[lt:Delavero kolonija]]
[[ja:デラウェア植民地]]
[[ro:Colonia Delaware]]