What is Delaware Colony?
{{Infobox country |conventional_long_name = Lower Counties on the Delaware Bay |common_name = Delaware |status = Colony of [[Kingdom of England|England]] (1664–1707)<br> Colony of [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] (1707–76) |government_type = Constitutional monarchy |event_start = |year_start = 1664 |event_end = [[United States Declaration of Independence|Independence]] |year_end = 1776 |date_end = |p1 = New Netherland |flag_p1 = Statenvlag.svg |s1 = Delaware |flag_s1 = Flag of the United States (1776-1777).svg |image_flag = Red ensign of Great Britain (1707–1800, square canton).svg |image_coat = |image_map =File:A map of Maryland with the Delaware counties and the southern part of New Jersey (page 1 crop).tiff |image_map_caption =Delaware in 1757 |capital = [[New Castle, Delaware|New Castle]] |common_languages = [[English language|English]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Munsee language|Munsee]], [[Unami language|Unami]] |currency = [[Delaware pound]] |representative1 = |year_representative1 = |representative2 = |year_representative2 = |title_representative = |deputy1 = |year_deputy1 = |deputy2 = |year_deputy2 = |title_deputy = |legislature = General Assembly of Delaware Colony |today = [[United States]] |demonym=|area_km2=|area_rank=|GDP_PPP=|GDP_PPP_year=|HDI=|HDI_year=}} '''Delaware Colony''' was a North American [[colony]]. It was in land on the bank of the [[Delaware River]] [[Delaware Bay|Bay]]. People settled to here in the 1600s. The first people here were [[Lenape]] and possibly the Assateague tribes of Native Americans. The first European settlers were [[Sweden|Swedes]]. In the 1700s, Delaware Colony's [[England|English]] colonists were mostly [[quake