In 1624, the Dutch West India Company founded a colony called New Netherland. The first settlement was at Fort Orange (Albany).
In 1638, The Swedish formed a colony at Fort Christina (Wilmington) after the name of Queen Christina of Sweden. The Dutch captured this colony in 1655 and made it part of New Netherland.
The British captured New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it New York in honor of king's brother the Duke of York. King Charles II granted the colony to his brother.
He in turn granted the land between the Delaware and the Hudson to two men, Lord John Berkeley (1607-1678) and Sir George Carteret (1615-1680).
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Carteret came from the island of Jersey in the English channel and he named the area New Jersey after his homeland.
In 1676 the colony was divided into East and West Jersey, Carteret took the possession of East Jersey. In 1681, his widow sold this area to William Penn and 11 other Quakers.
William Penn hoped to turn this new colony into a heaven for religious tolerance of Quakers and others. In 1682, the area now called Delaware was ceded to William Penn. In 1704, it was allowed its own assembly.
However, until the revolution Delaware and Pennsylvania shared a governor. Meanwhile East and West Jersey were reunited in 1702.
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