THE COLONY OF DELAWARE

HOW IT WAS FOUNDED?

• Henry Hudson found Delaware and claimed it for the Dutch
• He at first called it "De La Warr"
• Later on it was renamed "Delaware"
• 30 Dutchmen began the first settlement in Delaware called Zwaanendael

WHY WAS IT FOUNDED?

• Settlers would be able to make a good living farming, fishing, and trading with the Indians for beaver skins
• Beaver fur hats were very popular in Europe, and they cost a lot of money

PEOPLE THAT SETTLED IN

• Peter Minuit was the first governor of New Sweden
• He also paid for the land known as Wilmington,Delaware
• Minuit brought settlers from Sweden

The Lenni-Lenape were the Native Americans that lived in Delaware before the Europeans arrived

DAVID PIETERSEN DE VRIES
WAS ONE OF THE COLONY'S LEADERS AND FOUND THE RUINS OF THE SETTLEMENT, ZWAANENDAEL

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• Early 1620s: Dutch settlers began to establish farms along the Hudson River
• By 1626: Minuit had sent some settlers south to the Delaware River to establish a trading post called Fort Nassau
• 1655: Dutch take over New Sweden
• 1664: English take over Delaware

WHAT Happened To Zwaanendael?

• A Lenape sachem took a tin medallion from the settlement
• He thought it could make a fine pipe for smoking tobacco
• When the colonists complained to the Indians about the thief, they executed him because they didn't want to stop trading.
• However the friends of the thief were enraged. So they burned down the settlement
• This is what happened before David Pietersen De Viries found the ruins and skulls of the settlers

WHY THE COLONY OF DELAWARE IS SPECIAL

• The Dutch traded with the Lenni-Lenape. They exchanged hatchets,mirrors,combs,iron pots, and smoking pots(for fish and deer meat)
• The Leape also liked a special kind of wooden cloth that the Dutch had, it was called duffel
• Duffel replaced deer skins and the making of Indian clothing

WORKS CITED

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Christina
• Life in the thirteen colonies Delaware
• The colony of Delaware