History of Delaware

History of Delaware

Author: John Andrew Munroe

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780874139471

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"Originally undertaken by the author as a Bicentennial project in 1975, and now the standard history of the state, this volume chronicles the history of Delaware from the early 1600s to the present."--BOOK JACKET.


Delaware, the First State

Delaware, the First State

Author: Carol E. Hoffecker

Publisher: B B& A Publishers

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780970580405

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Examines the history of Delaware, from its first inhabitants and the arrival of European settlers to the effect of modern times on its business and government.


History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York

Author: Jay Gould

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1438485417

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When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Street's most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. Long before his adventures in finance, the future "robber baron" was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. Originally published in 1856, when Gould was just twenty, Gould's History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York is based on primary sources and original testimony from second and third generation settlers, many of them Gould's own friends and cousins. The book continues to be an important source on the first settlement of the region and is highly regarded by scholars. This edition features a new introduction by Edward Renehan, the biographer of both Gould and John Burroughs.