On September 12, 1673, the Dutch established New Amstel in present-day Delaware, fairly coterminous with today's New Castle County. However, in 1673, the Dutch attacked the territory, reclaiming it for their own. In 1672, the town of New Castle was incorporated and English law ordered. One of the first acts by the Duke was to order removal of all Dutch from New Amsterdam he renamed New Amstel as New Castle.
In 1664, the Duke of York, James, was granted this land by King Charles II. On December 22, 1663, the Dutch transferred property rights to the territory along the Delaware River to England. This land was known as the Colony of The City. John Paul Jacquet was immediately appointed governor, making New Amstel the capital of the Dutch-controlled colony.Īs payment for regaining the territory, the Dutch West India Company conveyed land from the south side of Christina Kill to Bombay Hook, and as far west as Minquas land. Consequently, Fort Christina fell on September 15 to the Dutch, was renamed Fort Altena and New Netherland ruled once again. They allowed only Dutch colonists to settle in the area and on August 31, 1655, the territory was converted back to Fort Casimir.
Having learned of the fall of Fort Casimir, the Dutch sent Stuyvesant to drive the Swedes from both sides of the river. On June 21, 1654, the Lenape met with the Swedes to reaffirm the purchase. The Swedes had complete possession of the west side of the Delaware River. Fort Casimir surrendered and was renamed Fort Trinity in 1654. Printz, officially assumed Printz's duties and began to expel all Dutch from New Sweden. In 1654, Johan Risingh, commissary and councilor to the Governor Lt. Stuyvesant began to build Fort Casimir (contemporary New Castle). He purchased land from the Lenape that covered Minquas Kill to Bompties Hook ( Bombay Hook) the Lenape had sold part of the property to the Swedes in 1638. Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherland, sailed up the South River in 1651. Printz settled on Tinicum Island, as the seat of government and capital of the New Sweden colony. She directed boundaries to be set and to reach Cape Henlopen north along the west side of Godyn's Bay ( Delaware Bay), up the South River ( Delaware River), past Minquas Kill ( Christina River), to Sankikans (Trenton Falls). In 1640, New Sweden was founded a few miles south of Christina. However, a dispute ensued between the Swedes and the Dutch, who asserted a prior claim to that land. They contracted with the Lenape Native Americans for land of Old Cape Henlopen north to Sankikans (Trenton Falls), and inland as far as they desired. The Swedes laid out the town at the site of modern-day Wilmington. The first permanent European settlement on Delaware soil was Fort Christina, resulting from Peter Minuit's 1638 expedition on the Swedish vessels Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel.
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It also has a professional auto racing track in New Castle known as Airport Speedway, with races on Saturday nights throughout the summer. New Castle County is home to two minor league sports teams: the Wilmington Blue Rocks (baseball) and the Delaware Blue Coats (basketball), both of which play in Wilmington. It is also the most economically developed of the three. It has more people than the other two counties, Kent and Sussex, combined. New Castle County has the highest population and population density of any Delaware county, and it is the smallest county in the state by area. The county is named after William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle ( c. New Castle County is included in the Philadelphia- Camden- Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Wilmington, which is also the state's most populous city. As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S.
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