Editing Sussex County, Delaware (section)

===European discovery===
There is no agreement on which European group was the first to settle in Sussex County. Historians believe that, in the early years of exploration from 1593 to 1630, Swedish explorers were likely the first Europeans to see the Delaware River and the lands of present-day Sussex County.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

On an expedition for the [[Dutch West India Company]], [[Henry Hudson]] recorded discovery in 1609 of what was later named the [[Delaware River]]. Attempting to follow him, [[Samuel Argall]], an English explorer, was blown off course in 1610 and landed in a strange bay which he named after the Governor of Virginia, [[Thomas West, Lord De La Warr]].

In the first half of 1613, [[Cornelius Jacobsen Mey]], a Dutch navigator, discovered and named both [[Cape May, New Jersey|Cape May]] and [[Cape Henlopen]] (originally Hindlopen) in the Delaware Bay. Later it was found that what May had named Henlopen was [[Fenwick Island (Delaware–Maryland)|Fenwick Island]], protruding into the Atlantic Ocean. The name of the cape was moved to its present location just east of Lewes.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}