Afore its coastline wis splorit bi Europeans in the 16t century, Delaware wis inhabitit bi several groups o Native Americans, includin theLenape in the north anNanticoke in the sooth. It wis initially colonisit biDutch traders atZwaanendael, near the present toun oLewes, in 1631.[6] Delaware wis ane o the13 colonies pairticipatin in theAmerican Revolution an on 7 Dizember 1787, became the first state tae ratifee theConstitution o the Unitit States, tharebi becomin kent asThe First State.
↑"Delaware". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved24 Februar 2007.
↑Johnson, Amandus (1911).The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware: Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664: with an Account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American Companies, and the Efforts of Sweden to Regain the Colony, Volume 1. University of Pennsylvania. p.167.
↑Myers, Albert Cook (1912).Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707, Volume 13. C. Scribner's Sons. p.8.
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