Delaware
Founded: 1638 by Peter Minuit and others
Major Industry: Agriculture (fishing), Manufacturing (lumbering)
Major Cities: Wilmington
Government: proprietary
Colony Named for: named for the Delaware tribe and for an early governor of colonial Virginia, Lord de la Warr
Became a State: December 7, 1787
Reasons: Formed from part of Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Settlers didn’t want to travel all the way from Pennsylvania. Peter Minuit formed New Sweden as part of New Netherlands. When King Charles II gave the Duke of York, New Netherland, he demanded to have New Sweden, he got it renaming it Delaware.
Target Residents(s): Had religious freedom, any type of christian, Quakers
Residency requirements: white male landowner
Target Resident(s): Christians, Quakers, Anyone
Religion: Lutheran, Dutch reformed, Anglican
Celebrities: Peter minuit
Sugar Ray Leonard
Henry Heimlich
Major Industry: Agriculture (fishing), Manufacturing (lumbering)
Major Cities: Wilmington
Government: proprietary
Colony Named for: named for the Delaware tribe and for an early governor of colonial Virginia, Lord de la Warr
Became a State: December 7, 1787
Reasons: Formed from part of Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Settlers didn’t want to travel all the way from Pennsylvania. Peter Minuit formed New Sweden as part of New Netherlands. When King Charles II gave the Duke of York, New Netherland, he demanded to have New Sweden, he got it renaming it Delaware.
Target Residents(s): Had religious freedom, any type of christian, Quakers
Residency requirements: white male landowner
Target Resident(s): Christians, Quakers, Anyone
Religion: Lutheran, Dutch reformed, Anglican
Celebrities: Peter minuit
Sugar Ray Leonard
Henry Heimlich