Random facts of Delaware Colony

• The ships that brought Peter Minuit and the New Sweden company were called Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip.








• The final spot of the fort was decided because the settlement wanted to be close enough to the Lenape Indians to be able to trade beaver pelts with them.








• The Dutch built a fort 7 miles away from the Swedish fort so they could menace them.








• The reason for the destruction the first fort in Delaware was a misunderstanding between the Lenape indians and this group called the New Netherlands. The New Netherlands people got massacred.








• The first governor was Johan Printz. He weighted over 400 pounds.

• The Lenape Indians called him "Big Belly."








• Delaware colony was a melting pot of countries or ethnicities.








• William Penn was granted Pennsylvania and then later received Delaware.








• William Penn owned Delaware until shortly after the Revolutionary war.








• Delaware became the first of the United States on December 7, 1787.








• Delaware had two different names changes before it became well.... Delaware. It was called New Netherlands and New Sweden.








• Delaware got it's name from the Delaware river and the river was named after Lord de la Warr, the governor of the Jamestown Colony.