Editing Delaware River (section)

==Origin of the name==
[[File:3rdLordDeLaWarr.jpg|thumb|The Delaware River is named in honor of [[Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr|Thomas West]], 3rd Baron De La Warr]]

The Delaware River is named in honor of [[Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr]] (1577–1618), an English nobleman and the [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia colony's]] [[List of colonial governors of Virginia|first royal governor]], who defended the colony during the [[First Anglo-Powhatan War]].<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|no-icon=1|first=Albert Frederick|last=Pollard|wstitle=West, Thomas (1577-1618) <!--N.B.: Hyphen not en dash on Wikisource. --> |display=West, Thomas (1577–1618)|volume=60|pages=344–345}}</ref> Lord de la Warr waged a [[Punitive expedition|punitive campaign]] to subdue the [[Powhatan]] after they had killed the colony's council president, [[John Ratcliffe (governor)|John Ratcliffe]], and attacked the colony's fledgling settlements.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Tyler |editor-first=Lyon Gardiner |title=Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography |location=New York |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |year=1915 |volume=I |pages=33–34 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Grenier |first=John |title=The First Way of War: The American War-Making of the Frontier, 1607–1814 |url=https://archive.org/details/firstwaywarameri00gren |url-access=limited |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstwaywarameri00gren/page/n39 24]–25 |isbn=0-521-84566-1 }}</ref> Lord de la Warr arrived with 150 soldiers in time to prevent the colony's original settlers at [[Historic Jamestowne|Jamestown]] from giving up and returning to England and is credited with saving the Virginia colony.<ref name="DNB" /> The name of the barony (later an [[Earl De La Warr|earldom]]) is pronounced as in the current spelling form "Delaware" ({{IPAc-en|audio=en-us-Delaware.ogg|ˈ|d|ɛ|l|ə|w|ɛər}} {{respell|DEL|ə|wair}})<ref>''Random House Dictionary''</ref> and is thought to derive from [[French language|French]] ''de la Guerre''.

It has often been reported that the river and bay received the name "Delaware" after [[English colonial empire|English]] forces under [[Richard Nicolls]] expelled the [[Dutch colonization of the Americas|Dutch]] and took control of the [[New Netherland|New Netherland colony]] in 1664.<ref>World Digital Library. [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4062 ''Articles about the Transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104904/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4062/ |date=January 26, 2013 }}. Retrieved March 21, 2013</ref><ref>Versteer, Dingman (editor). "New Amsterdam Becomes New York" in ''[https://archive.org/details/newnetherlandreg00vers The New Netherland Register]''. Volume 1 No. 4 and 5 (April/May 1911): 49-64.</ref> However, the river and bay were known by the name ''Delaware'' as early as 1641.<ref>Evelin, Robert. ''A direction for Adventurers With small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentleman, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully, And the true Description of the healthiest, pleasantest and richest plantation of New Albion in North Virginia''. (London, s.n., 1641).</ref> The [[U.S. state|state]] of Delaware was originally part of the [[William Penn]]'s [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania colony]]. In 1682, the [[James II of England|Duke of York]] granted Penn's request for access to the sea and leased him the territory along the western shore of Delaware Bay, which became known as the "Lower Counties on the Delaware".<ref>{{cite book |last=Munroe |first=John A. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vs7NcOKnlNUC&pg=PA45 |chapter=Chapter 3. The Lower Counties On The Delaware |title=History of Delaware |location=Newark, Delaware |publisher=University of Delaware Press |year=2006 |page=45 |isbn=0-87413-947-3 }}</ref> In 1704, the Lower Counties were given political autonomy to form a separate provincial assembly, but they shared Pennsylvania's provincial governor until the two colonies separated on June 15, 1776, and they remained separate as [[U.S. state|states]] after the establishment of the United States.

The name "Delaware" also came to be used as a collective name for the [[Lenape]], a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people who inhabited an area of the basins of the [[Susquehanna River]], Delaware River, and lower [[Hudson River]] in the [[northeastern United States]] at the time of European settlement,<ref>{{cite book |last=Schutt |first=Amy C. |title=Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8122-3993-5 }}</ref> as well as for their [[Delaware languages|language]]. As a result of disruption following the [[French and Indian War]], [[American Revolution|American Revolutionary War]], and the later Indian removals from the eastern United States, the name "Delaware" has been spread with the Lenape's diaspora to municipalities, counties and other geographical features in the American Midwest and Canada.<ref>{{cite book |last=Weslager |first=Charles A. |title=The Delaware Indians: A History |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=1990 |isbn=0-8135-1494-0 }}</ref>