USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The lower counties of Delaware were governed as part of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1682 until 1701, when the lower counties petitioned for and were granted an independent colonial legislature; the two colonies shared the same governor until 1776. The English colonists who settled Delaware were mainly Quakers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The lower counties on Delaware, a separate colony within the Pennsylvania Province, broke away during the American Revolution and was established as the Delaware State and also became one of the original thirteen states.

Detailed explanation-3: -On June 15, 1776, the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania declares itself independent of British and Pennsylvanian authority, thereby creating the state of Delaware.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pennsylvania and Delaware were proprietary colonies. New York and New Jersey originally were proprietary colonies, but eventually became royal colonies, New York in 1685 and New Jersey in 1702.

Detailed explanation-5: -The colonies that became the state of Delaware lay in the middle of the North American Atlantic coast, extending about 120 miles north from the Atlantic Ocean along the southwestern shore of the Delaware (South) Bay and River to within 10 miles of Philadelphia.