The Wedge of land between the northwest part of the arc and the Maryland border was claimed by both Delaware and Pennsylvania until 1921, when Delaware's claim was confirmed.

The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, sailed into Delaware Bay, which lay within the territory claimed by the Dutch, passing Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes ' Landing on March 29, 1638.

The Swedes claimed the section of land purchased included the land on the west side of the South River from just below the Schuylkill, in other words, today's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and coastal Maryland.

Located on the lower Delaware River within territory earlier claimed by the Dutch, it was called New Sweden.

At this time, Penn also claimed that the Delaware territory extended as far south as Fenwick Island.

Whereas Penn claimed the Delaware territories extended to Fenwick Island, Calvert claimed the Colony ended at Lewes with all the land south of the settlement belonging to Somerset County.

Named after Thomas Fenwick, a planter from England who settled in Maryland, Fenwick Island lay in the part of Delaware which was claimed by Lord Baltimore and his heirs during the Penn-Baltimore border dispute.

* 1682 August 24-Penn divided the Province into three counties, Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester ; The last comprised all lands west and south of the Delaware and the Schuylkill ; therefore the site of Mount Carmel was originally in an area claimed by Chester County

Gun rights groups claimed that this action was a straw purchase, intended to avoid the NICS, and may have also violated Delaware firearms purchase laws.

At the time, the Dutch had claimed the area south to the Delaware ( then called " South River ").

The Swedes claimed an area for the Realm of Sweden on the south side of the Delaware that encompassed much of the present-day U. S. state of Delaware, eventually including parts of present-day southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey on the north side of the river.

Maryland sent Henry Coursey to New York to engage Andros and eventually the Iroquois in peace talks, while at the same time they sent surveyors to lay out plots on land also claimed by New York on Delaware Bay.

In 1641 the colony claimed the area that is now South Jersey and Philadelphia after buying the area south of Trenton along the Delaware River from the Lenape tribe.

The colony of New Netherland set up by England's great Imperial rival in this era, the United Provinces specifically claimed the Delaware River valley and was vague about its border with Virginia.

Delaware was thenceforth claimed by New York under a Deputy of the Duke of York from 1664 to 1682, but not actually held in the Duke's possession nor his colonists, a situation taken advantage of by the proprietors of Maryland.

The colonial administrators claimed that they had a deed dating to the 1680s in which the Lenape-Delaware had promised to sell a portion of land beginning between the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River ( near present Wrightstown, Pennsylvania ) " as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half.

After the Beaver Wars, the Iroquois claimed the Ohio Country as their hunting ground by right of conquest, and treated the Shawnee and Delaware who resettled there as dependent tribes.

The British claimed the Delaware River watershed based on the explorations of John Cabot in 1497, Captain John Smith and others.

Parretti was later convicted of perjury and evidence tampering in a Delaware court for statements he made in a 1991 civil case, brought by Credit Lyonnais to validate their removal of Parretti, to the effect that a document he claimed allowed him to retain control of MGM was authentic ;

The land here was claimed from the native Delaware tribe by Casper Taub, one of the area's earliest European settlers.

Just before the American Revolution, early settler Casper Taub claimed Friendship, along with neighboring Bloomfield and Garfield, from the native Delaware tribe.

In Delaware Nation v. Pennsylvania ( 2004 ), the current nation claimed included in the original purchase, but the US District Court granted the Commonwealth's motion to dismiss.

William Penn's heirs, John Penn and Thomas Penn, claimed a deed from the 1680s by which the Lenape promised to sell a tract beginning at the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River ( modern Easton, Pennsylvania ) and extending as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half.

According to Dave Doyle at the National Geodetic Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the common corner of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, at The Wedge is marked by Boundary Monument # 87.

* The Wedge, part of the boundary between the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware in the United States.

The Wedge ( or Delaware Wedge ) is a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Even though the area of the Wedge is quite small, just over one square mile, to understand its significance requires some background of the colonial history of the Province of Maryland, the Delaware Colony, and the Province of Pennsylvania.

Clearly Maryland no longer had a claim to the Wedge, as it is east of the Mason – Dixon Line and as both Pennsylvania and Delaware were owned by the Penns, there was no particular incentive to determine which possession it was a part of, at least until they became separate states.

* Pennsylvania claimed the Wedge because it was beyond the Twelve-Mile Circle and past the Maryland side of the Mason – Dixon Line, therefore neither part of Maryland or Delaware.

By simple merits of the geometry, the Wedge more logically fit as a part of Delaware, which exercised jurisdiction of the area.

Delaware Route 273 and Delaware Route 896 cut across the Wedge.

) include a Delaware choice of law clause, because of the deep body of law in Delaware on these issues.

Delaware has also attracted some major credit card banks because of its relaxed rules regarding interest.

However, in general, the state is viewed as a positive location for corporate tax purposes because favorable laws of incorporation allow companies to minimize the corporate expenditures ( achieved through legal standardization of corporate legal processes ), creating a nucleus in Delaware with operating companies often in other states.

Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between Thomas McKean ( who voted yes ) and George Read ( who voted no ).

The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from Newcastle in 1777 because of its central location and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware River.

Over a century later, it was decided in the case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore that because the Dutch had colonized Zwaanendael in 1631, that portion of Maryland's charter granting Delaware to Maryland was void.

Most of the Delaware – Pennsylvania boundary is an arc, and the Delaware – Maryland boundary does not run truly north-south because it was intended to bisect the Delmarva Peninsula rather than follow a meridian.

The Transpeninsular Line was responsible for the founding of this unique bi-state town because the Charter of the Delaware Railroad Company permitted only the building of a railroad within the State of Delaware and the charter of the corresponding railroad company in Maryland permitted only the laying of railroad track within the State of Maryland.

The Transpeninsular Line was responsible for the founding of this unique bi-state town because the Charter of the Delaware Railroad Company permitted only the building of a railroad within the State of Delaware and the charter of the corresponding railroad company in Maryland permitted only the laying of railroad track within the State of Maryland.

Hampton was once known as " Junction " because the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad crossed through here.

322 would cross the Delaware River on the Chester-Bridgeport Ferry, via Flower Street, causing major backups because of limited space on the ferries.

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western took a circuitous path to ownership of Avondale because its 1854 charter limited its ownership of coal lands.

Records show that the Hibblertown Hotel ( present Ackerson house on State Street ), the Dill ’ s Tavern ( oldest tavern, was located on the south side of Emery ’ s, now torn down ) and the What Cheer Inn ( present Duckloe Showroom at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Main Street ) all prospered because of loggers.

A popular story is that Exmore received its name because it is the tenth railroad station south of the Delaware state line, so there were " X more " stations to go.

Chancellor William B. Chandler, III of the Delaware Court of Chancery, despite describing Eisner's behavior as falling " far short of what shareholders expect and demand from those entrusted with a fiduciary position ..." found in favor of Eisner and the rest of the Disney board because they had not violated the letter of the law ( namely, the duty of care owed by a corporation's officers and board to its shareholders ).

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western No. 565 in the movie, but because the Central Railroad of New Jersey would not transport the locomotive out of Chester, New Jersey, only some of the BR & W coaches appear in the movie.

In an April 22, 2011 interview with The Delaware County Daily Times, Scott Lucas commented on the release saying, “ It ’ s kinda weird but kinda cool because it doesn ’ t cover our entire career, so I was like, “ Let ’ s call it The Island Years .”

Since that time, and because most large publicly traded corporations in the US are incorporated under corporate administration friendly Delaware law, and because the US's wealth has been increasingly securitized into various corporate entities and institutions, the rights of individual owners and shareholders have become increasingly derivative and dissipated.

He chose the location because of the natural energy that the water provided ; the availability of timber and willow trees ( used to produce quality charcoal required for superior black powder ); the proximity to the Delaware River ( on which other ingredients of the powder – sulfur and saltpeter – could be shipped ); and the quarries of gneiss which would provide building materials for the mills.