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NEW See also:CASTLE , a See also:city of New Castle See also:county, See also:Delaware, U.S.A., in the See also:northern See also:part of the See also:state, at the See also:head of Delaware See also:Bay, on a high point of See also:land extending into the Delaware See also:river, 6 m. See also:south of See also:Wilmington. Pop. (189o) 4010; (1900) 3380 (315 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 3351• It is served by the See also:Philadelphia, See also:Baltimore & See also:Washington (See also:Pennsylvania See also:System), and (via Wilmington) the Baltimore & See also:Ohio See also:railways, and by steamship lines connecting with Baltimore, Philadelphia and river ports. The " old " county See also:court See also:house, possibly built by the Swedes, is in New Castle; and there are a public library, the Immanuel See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (partly built in 1689), and several residences of Dutch and colonial types. The city has a See also:good See also:harbour and an excel-See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent river front for manufacturing sites and for See also:shipping; it is included in the customs See also:district of Wilmington. Its See also:industrial establishments include shipyards, See also:rolling See also:mills and See also:steel See also:works, See also:flour-mills, and manufactories of See also:cotton and woollen goods. The See also:shad See also:fisheries are of some importance. In 1651 See also:Governor See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Stuyvesant of New Netherland established near the See also:place Fort Casimir, as the first determined move in his aggressive policy against the Swedes, who had settled in this vicinity about 1640. The Swedes captured the fort in 1654, but this precipitated the crisis in which New See also:Sweden (Delaware) was lost to the Dutch in 1655. Fort Casimir (renamed Fort Amstel) was made the seat of See also:government of the See also:local Dutch possessions, and in 1657 was placed under the See also:jurisdiction of the City of See also:Amsterdam, under which it remained, though prospering little—disease, See also:famine and fears of See also:English attack causing most of the inhabit-ants to leave in 1658 and 1659—until just before the English seized the settlements in Delaware in 1664. Under the English the name was changed to New Castle, and See also:trade and See also:commerce prospered; and an arc with a See also:radius of 12 m., having the New Castle court house as a centre, became the northern boundary of the " counties on the Delaware." New Castle was frequently the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting place of the colonial legislature, and after the legislative separation of Delaware from Pennsylvania in 1704 it was the seat of See also:administration of the See also:colony until 1777. It was chartered as a city in 1875.
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