Delaware

= = =﻿Delaware (1638)=

  __Captain David Pietersen de Vries__
 * Delaware was founded in 1638.
 * Initially founded by dutch traders and was called Zwaazendael.
 * It was the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
 * It was originally set up as a trading post.

Captain David Pietersen de Vries was a dutch navigator from Hoorn, Holland.In 1638, 28 colonists sailed to North America and set up the colony Swaazendael, now known as deleware. He went back to his home land and upon his second arrival to the new world, he found the settlers massacred and the colony burned down. After trading trips to the Americas he set patroonships at staten island and tappan that were also later destroyed by the native americans. He decided to write a book of his troubles called //Korte Historiael.// The colony was eventually resettled by the swedes and somewhere down the line was bought by the English.

__Economic Activity__

Some of the major economic activity of colonial Delaware included general farming, tobacco, fishing, and whaling. When the amount of english immigrants decreasing, deleware became a slave society cultivating tobacco as a cash crop. Before the revolution Delaware started to shift to a mixed agriculture.

__Capital__

Dover, Delaware



__Type of Colony__

The Delaware colony was a proprietary colony. This means it was a colony owned by one or more private land owners who have the power to set up and maintain the government.