Delaware Colony
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Was one of the British Middle Colonies that would later become part of the United States in 1776.
Establishment
January 1665: The first European settlers in Delaware were the Swedes and the Dutch, with the land eventually coming under English control in 1664. This transfer of power was a result of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, during which the English successfully captured the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which included present-day Delaware.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) from mid-17th to late 18th century.
1.1.Third Anglo-Dutch War
Was a conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France.
September 1673: The Dutch recaptured New Netherland from England with a fleet of 21 ships led by Vice Admiral Cornelius Evertsen and Commodore Jacob Binckes.
March 1674: The Treaty of Westminster concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War and ceded New Netherland to England.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
January 1675: Whorekills was restored to the Province of New York when New York was recaptured from the Dutch in November, 1674.
January 1683: Delaware was governed as part of Pennsylvania in 1682 by William Penn, who was the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. This arrangement lasted until 1701 when Delaware was granted its own separate assembly.
January 1702: The Lower Counties petitioned for and were granted an independent colonial legislature.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
Disestablishment
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Selected Sources
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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