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DELAWARE

For organic acts relating to the land now included within Delaware, see in other parts of this work:

Virginia Charter of 1606 (Virginia, p. 3783).

Dutch West India Company, 1621 (p. 59).

Maryland Charter, 1632 (Maryland, p. 1669).

Grant to the Duke of York, 1664 (Maine, p. 1637).

Grant to the Duke of York, 1674 (Maine, p. 1641).

Grant to Penn, 1681 (Pennsylvania, p. 3035).

Concessions to Pennsylvania, 1681 (Pennsylvania, p. 3044).

Frames of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682, 1683, 1606 (Pennsylvania, pp. 3052, 3064, 3070).

For the charter to the Swedish South Company see Hazard, Annals of Pennsylvania, pp. 16-20, Jameson, William Usselinx, 114–117.

CHARTER OF DELAWARE—1701^[1][2]

William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto belonging, To all to whom these Presents shall come, sendeth Greeting.

Whereas King Charles the Second, by his Letter Patents, under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the Fourth Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty, was graciously pleased to give and grant unto me, and my Heirs and Assigns for ever, this Province of Pennsylvania, with divers great Powers and Jurisdictions for the well Government thereof.

And whereas the King’s dearest Brother, James Duke of York and Albany, &c. by his Deeds of Feoffment, under his Hand and Seal duly perfected, bearing Date the Twenty-Fourth Day of August, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Two, did grant unto me, my Heirs and Assigns, all that Tract of Land, now called, the Territories of Pennsylvania, together with Powers and Jurisdictions for the good Government thereof.

And whereas, for the Encouragement of all the Freemen and Planters, that might be concerned in the said Province and Territories, and for the good Government thereof, I the said William Penn, in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Three, for me, my Heirs and Assigns, did grant and confirm unto all the Freemen, Planters and Adventurers therein, divers Liberties, Franchises and Properties, as by the said Grant, entituled, The frame of

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1. Laws of the Government of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Upon Delaware, Published by Order of the Assembly, Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New Printing Office, Market-Street, MDCCXLI, 3-8.
2. The counties of “New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware,” were granted by James Duke of York, to William Penn in 1682, and were known as “the Territories.”