Delaware, early Dutch settlers, 207, 208; the Swedes, 201, 208; fall of New Sweden, 209; annexed to Pennsylvania, 210, 216, 217; a separate colony, 61, 210, 217; geography, 218, 219; social classes, 222-224; occupations, 224, 225; trade and commerce, 225, 226; life and manners, 227; religion, 230; general characteristics, 210; Indian affairs, 277; influence of Virginian ideas on, 280; population (1700), 221, 222; (1750), 266. --, Lord, governor of Virginia, 72. -- River, early settlements on, 51, 197-199, 207-210, 215, 216; Dutch claims on, 163; conflicts between Dutch and Swedes, 200. De Monts, Sieur, colonizes Nova Scotia, 35, 36, 242. De Soto, Hernando, expedition of, 11, 30, 31, 47. Detroit, site discovered, 248, 249. Digger Indians, status, 9. "Discovery," the, carries colonists to Virginia, 69. Dominica, Leeward Islands, 237, 238. Dorchester, Mass., fortified, 131; emigration from, to Connecticut, 140, 141. Drake, Sir Francis, explorations, 37, 52; relieves Raleigh's colony, 39; resists the Armada, 40. Dudley, Joseph, president of Andros's council, 175, 176. --, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, 127, 135, 175; governor, 129. "Duke's laws," the, in New York, 203, 204. Dummer, Jeremiah, "Defence of the American Charters," 266, 267. Dunkards, in Pennsylvania, 230. Dutch, the, early claims in America, 44; colonial policy, 50, 51; as ocean carriers, 103, 104; plant New Netherlands, 196-198; patroon system, 198-200; operations on the Connecticut, 136, 140, 141; collisions with English traders and settlers, 47, 145, 155, 162-164, 199, 200; Swedish opposition, 51, 208, 209; wars with England, 159, 163, 164, 168, 201-203; fall of New Netherlands, 168, 202, 203; New Netherlands recaptured, but lost again, 205; in the West Indies, 236-238; in New York, 203, 204, 220, 221, 223, 227, 229, 231, 232; in New Jersey, 210, 211, 221; in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 207-210, 215, 217, 221, 222. -- East India Company, sends out Hudson, 196. -- Reformed Church, in middle colonies, 230. -- West India Company, chartered, 197; patroon system, 198-200, 223; plan of government, 203; Delaware settlements, 207, 209; pacific policy towards New England, 163. East India Company, 66. East Indies, Dutch in the, 50. East New Jersey, as a separate province, 212-214; population (1700), 221. Eaton, Theophilus, heads New Haven colony, 144, 145. Edward VI., king of England, 36. Edwards, Jonathan, character, 183; revival work, 190. Eliot, John, the Indian missionary, 170, 189. Elizabeth, queen of England, interest in American colonization, 37, 38, 40, 52, 53, 67, 68; English commerce under, 104; Puritanism under, 114, 115.