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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#22 - DELAWARE
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| DELAWARE. |
| DELAWARE is the smallest
State in the Union. It was named
after Lord De La Warr, the first
governor of Virginia, one of
whose navigators, Captain Argall,
named Delaware Bay in honor of
his chief, and the title was
gradually transferred to the
peninsula. Hendrik Hudson
discovered Delaware Bay in 1609,
a year before Captain Argall
sailed up the lonely expanse. The
first white settlers were De
Vries and thirty-two Hollanders,
who founded a colony near the
site of Lewes in 1631. These
pioneers were all massacred by
the Indians. In 1638 Peter Minuit
was sent out by Queen Christina
to found here "a country in
which every man should be free to
worship God as he chose." He
built Fort Christina on the the
site of Wilmington, and
garrisoned it with sturdy Swedes
and Finns. In 1651 Governor
Stuyvesant came around from New
Amsterdam and erected Fort
Casimir, on the site of New
Castle, to hold these Baltic men
in check, but on Trinity Sunday
of 1654 they swarmed into the new
fortress and raised over it the
banner of Sweden. Finally,
however, the Dutch conquered. |
| In 1682
Delaware was granted to William
Penn. Delaware entered earnestly
into the Revolution, and
Washington's army lay about
Wilmington before the battle of
Brandywine. Delaware was one of
the original thirteen States, and
the first to ratify the
Constitution. After the Secession
troubles began, Delaware refused
to join the South and sent nine
regiments into the national army. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Penn
Ascending the Delaware; At the
Battle of Brandywine;
Governor Printz Maltreating the
Dutch Ambassador;
Landing of Swedish Emigrants at
Paradise Point. |
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