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*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | *[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*By June 3, 1631, the Dutch had begun settling the Delmarva Peninsula by establishing the Zwaanendael Colony on the site of present-day Lewes, Delaware. <ref name="Penn">"Pennsylvania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania, accessed 8 April 2021.</ref> | |||
By June 3, 1631, the Dutch had begun settling the Delmarva Peninsula by establishing the Zwaanendael Colony on the site of present-day Lewes, Delaware. <ref name="Penn">"Pennsylvania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania, accessed 8 April 2021.</ref> | |||
===New Sweden=== | ===New Sweden=== | ||
Starting in 1638, Swedes and Finns settled between present-day Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, and small settlements in West New Jersey. New Sweden claimed and, for the most part, controlled the lower Delaware River region (parts of present-day Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) but settled few colonists there. In 1655, the Dutch took possession of all New Sweden.<ref>"New Sweden" in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia]'' (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref><ref name="Penn"/> | Starting in 1638, Swedes and Finns settled between present-day Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, and small settlements in West New Jersey. New Sweden claimed and, for the most part, controlled the lower Delaware River region (parts of present-day Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) but settled few colonists there. In 1655, the Dutch took possession of all New Sweden.<ref>"New Sweden" in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia]'' (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref><ref name="Penn"/> | ||