SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Pennsylvania
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New York
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New Jersey
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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: -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-3: -In 1685 King James II determined that Maryland would not have the three counties of Delaware, but it was not until 1732 that Maryland’s proprietor agreed that the longitudinal line separating his colony from Pennsylvania would run from a point fifteen miles south of the most southern point in Philadelphia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Delaware was part of a group of colonies known as the Middle Colonies, along with Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Delaware was the southernmost colony of the middle colonies, and even had a beach on the Atlantic coast.