Delaware Colonial Records: Difference between revisions

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==Military Records==
==Military Records==
*Records of colonial military service can be found in: Delaware Public Archives Commission. ''Delaware Archives''. 5 Vols, (Wilmington:n.p., 1911-, film 0928150ff).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/744040?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Colonial Delaware Soldiers and Sailors 1638-1776''] by Henry C. Peden, (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1995).
==Colonial Census Records==
In 1693, a census was taken of the Swedes in Delaware to see if there was a need for more pastors and religious books in Swedish.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the counties of the Western Hemisphere''] (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
**[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/633634?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Cecil County, Maryland, 1638-1693'' by Peter Stebbins Craig, (Winter Park, FL: SAG Publications, 1993).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/218413?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Early Delaware Census Records, 1665-1697''] by Ronald Vern Jackson, (Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing System, 1977).


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<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the counties of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the counties of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
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