Sources-Delaware

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Location: Delaware, USA

Category: Source

Contents 1 The State of Delaware 1.1 Primary Sources 1.2 Delaware Journals 1.3 Delaware Sources (General) 1.4 New Castle County 1.5 Kent County 1.6 Sussex County

The State of Delaware

Primary Sources

including transcriptions and abstracts

• Delaware Historical Society Digital Collections has many digitized primary sources
• Delaware Land Records, 1677-1947 link
• Delaware, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 link
• Colonial Dames of Delaware. A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800 (Baltimore, 1911)
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware. 1676-1681. Lancaster, PA: Wickersham Printing Company, 1904
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. Records of the Court of New Castle County, Delaware, 1681-1699. Meadville, Pa. : Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1935.
• Wright, F. Edward. Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle County, Delaware, 1742-1761. Lewes, Delaware: Delmarva Roots, 2001

Delaware Journals

• Delaware History published by Delaware Historical Society. 1946-present. Publishes transcriptions of primary sources from all eras of Delaware history, including Dutch, Swedish, Quaker, and other colonial sources, revolutionary sources, (diaries, letters, trade sources), as well as historical articles on key figures of Delaware history and more general topics. Most volumes have an annual name index and a bibliography for the year or years prior, including journal articles published in other magazines. https://dehistory.org/learn/publications/

Delaware Sources (General)

• Conrad, Henry Clay, History of the State of Delaware (Wilmington, Delaware, 1908)
• Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware. (Chambersburg, PA: J.M. Runk & Co, 1899)
• Scharf, John Thomas. History of Delaware: 1609-1888. (Philadelphia: L.J. Richards & Co., 1888)
• Craig, Peter S. 1671 Census of the Delaware. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999)
• Craig, Peter S. The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware.(Winter Park, Fla: SAG Publications, 1993)
• Sellers, Edwin Jaquett. Allied Families of Delaware: Stretcher, Fenwick, Davis, Draper, Kipshaven, Stidham. (Philadelphia: E.J. Sellers, 1901)

New Castle County

• The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Kent County

Sussex County

• Turner, C. H. B., Some Records of Sussex County, Delaware (Allen, Lane & Scott, Philadelphia, 1909)

See also:

• New Sweden Sources
• Delaware American History and Genealogy Page
• Delaware State Research Guide from Ancestry
• Delaware sources list on genealoger.com
• Colonial Delaware Records