Editing List of counties in Delaware (section)

==History==
Following the English conquest of 1664, all of the land on the western side of the [[Delaware River]] and [[Delaware Bay]] was governed as part of the [[Province of New York|New York Colony]] and administered from the town of [[New Castle, Delaware|New Castle]]. During the brief recapture of the colony by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] in 1673, additional court districts were created around [[Upland, Pennsylvania|Upland]] and Whorekill.<ref name="DHE">{{cite web|last=The [[Historical Society of Delaware]] |year=1997 |url=http://www.hsd.org/DHE/DHE_where_counties.htm |title=Delaware Counties |access-date=2006-06-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719162033/http://www.hsd.org/DHE/DHE_where_counties.htm |archive-date=2006-07-19 }}</ref> The latter was also known as Hoornkill, and is now the town of [[Lewes, Delaware|Lewes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lewestownpublishers.com/lewes_history/whorekill.html|title=The Name of Whorekill|author=Hazel D. Brittingham|year=1997|access-date=2007-04-24|publisher=Lewestown Publishers|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713202643/http://lewestownpublishers.com/lewes_history/whorekill.html|archive-date=2011-07-13}}</ref> The court at New Castle was left with the central portion of the colony. The jurisdiction left to the court at became [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County]], and the county seat remained at New Castle until 1881 when it was moved to [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]. In 1680, Whorekill District was divided into Deale County and St. Jones County.<ref name="DCH">{{cite web |last= Delaware Genealogical Society |publisher= Delaware Genealogical Society |year= 1997 |url= http://delgensoc.org/delhund.html |title= Delaware Counties and Hundreds |access-date= 2006-06-01 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060613055310/http://delgensoc.org/delhund.html |archive-date= 2006-06-13 }}</ref> After this division, Lewes became the county seat of  Deale, which was later renamed ''Sussex County''.<ref name="DCH"/> The former Upland District was named after the [[New Sweden]] settlement of [[Upland, Pennsylvania|Upland]], and was renamed [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]] in 1682.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.phillyh2o.org/backpages/SW_Chapter01.htm |access-date=2008-02-24|title=History of Philadelphia 1609–1884|author=J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott|chapter=Chapter 1: Topography of Philadelphia|publisher=Philadelphia Water Department}}</ref> Chester County is now located within the present boundaries of [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dsf.chesco.org/|access-date=2008-04-02|title=Chester County website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080419133232/http://dsf.chesco.org/|archive-date=2008-04-19}}</ref>

[[Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore|Lord Baltimore]], the Proprietor of [[Maryland]], claimed all present-day Delaware, and organized its northern and eastern portions as Durham County, Maryland. However, this county existed only on paper. The southern and western portions of present-day Sussex County were organized as portions of several adjacent Maryland counties and were not recognized as part of Delaware until the [[Mason-Dixon line|Mason-Dixon Survey]] was run in 1767.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/|title=A brief history of the Mason-Dixon survey line|author=John Mackenzie|access-date=2007-04-24|publisher=University of Delaware|archive-date=2007-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312150011/http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to [[Georgetown, Delaware|Georgetown]].<ref name="DCH"/> The county seat of St. Jones (renamed ''Kent County'' in 1681<ref name="DCH"/>) is at [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]].<ref name="DCH"/>

After 2000, a fourth "Appoquinimink County" was proposed to be carved out of [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County]]. The effort intended to end the zoning restrictions of the Unified Development Code on the undeveloped farmland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.co.new-castle.de.us/czo/brwsframe_j.asp|title=Unified Development Code|access-date=2008-10-01|publisher=[[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041216052313/http://www.co.new-castle.de.us/czo/brwsframe_j.asp |archive-date = December 16, 2004}}</ref>

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