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__**Deleware**__
 * **name of colony-Deleware**
 * **founder-Peter Minuit**
 * **year founded-1638**
 * **was founded to trade and for profits**
 * **Deleware was never a seperate colony**
 * **used to be part of the Penn Oroprietor ship**
 * **was known as the iower counties**
 * **in 1701 it was a seperate Assembly**
 * **had the same governor as pennsylvania**
 * **is a british colony**
 * **there is great soil and farmland**
 * **In 1704 Deleware, Pennsylvaina,and New Jersy became the middle eastern colonies**
 * **was started by settling on land that had been also part of Pennsylvaina**
 * **originally was New Sweden**
 * **Deleware was the first state to ratify the constitution and became a state in 1787**
 * **gets it's name from the river and bay that seperates it from it from New Jersey**
 * **Is bordered by New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland**
 * **State motto- Liberty and independece**
 * **state nickname-First state**
 * **There was 783,600 people living in Deleware in the year 2002**
 * **capital-Dover**
 * **it is the second smallest state**
 * **it has 96 miles of lane from north to south and 39 miles of land frm east to west**
 * **Deleware was conitered a border state**
 * **95%of Deleware lies in the Alantic colstal plain**
 * **2/3 of Deleware's land drains into the Deleware river and the ocean**
 * **Average temp.-35oF in the winter to 76oF in the summer**
 * ** Snow fall is normally greastest in Febuary **