SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Swedish, Dutch, English
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Dutch, Germans, Swedish
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Americans, Native Americans, English
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English, Dutch, Puritans
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dutch founded the first European settlement in Delaware at Lewes (then called Zwaanendael) in 1631.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first European colony in the Delaware Valley was established by Swedish settlers in 1638.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1631, 11 years after the landing of the English pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first white settlement was made on Delaware soil. A group of Dutchmen formed a trading company headed by Captain David Pietersen de Vries for the purpose of enriching themselves from the New World.
Detailed explanation-4: -History of the State House "William Penn is the father of representative government in Delaware. In 1681 this idealistic English Quaker became proprietor of two colonies in America: Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware. He tried to unite the two into one.