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Delaware // Dover, DE // Middle Atlantic Region // Eastern Time (The First State)
New Sweden colony established:	March, 1638 by Peter Minuit and the New Sweden Company
English conquest:	September 30, 1664 by Sir Robert Carr
Part of Pennsylvania colony:	1681 - 1703
Independence declared^[1]:	June 15, 1776
Union admittance:	December 7, 1787 // 1^st state
^[1] Delaware was formed out of the "Lower Counties on the Delaware" (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex), a region of the Province of Pennsylvania. [Display overwiew of states formed out of the original 13 colonies]


#4282 // June 14, 2008 (self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series Delaware State Flag and beach scene	#1960 // April 14, 1982 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) State Bird & Flower of Delaware Blue Hen Chicken (Dendragapus obscursus) and Peach Blossom	#1633 // February 23, 1976 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) American Bicentennial Series Delaware State Flag

#2336 // July 4, 1987 // Dover, DE
Delaware Statehood
Ratification of the Constitution
on December 7, 1787
Bicentennial

Early version of Delaware's Coat of arms, 1776

Farmer, holding a sailing ship in his left hand,
representing the central role of farming to the state
and New Castle County's shipbuilding industry;

Shield with symbols representing
Sussex County (sheaf of wheat), Kent County (ear of corn),
Delaware River (blue stripe), and animal husbandry (ox);

Militiaman, representing the crucial role of the citizen-soldier
to the maintenance of American liberties

#3568 // April 4, 2002
(ex pane of 50 stamps, one for each state)
Greetings from Delaware

Illustration of contemporary postcard
in the style of the 1930s/1940s

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The state, the river, the bay, and an Indian tribe (originally Lenni Lenape) are named in honor of Sir Thomas West, Baron de la Warr (* 1577, † 1618), governor of the English Colony of Virgina. Delaware was the first state to ratify the US constitution on December 7, 1787. Find out more facts & trivia
Land Area rounded mi² [km²] 1,954 [5.061] ranked 49^th	Population (census 2010) 897,934 ranked 45^th	Population Density per mi² [km²] of land area 461 [177] ranked 7^th
The State of Delaware has three counties.