Primarily a historical sketch, not genealogical. Jacob Alricks, "director and commissary-general of the Colony of Burgomaster and Governors of the City of Amstersdam on the South River of New Netherland," led a group of a few soldiers and twenty families to New Amstel [New Castle] in 1657. There were five or six Hollenders and the rest Swedes. By 1658, there were some 600 persons in the colony. The colony was unable to support itself, there was...

Joshua Clayton (d.1761), son of Thomas Clayton of County York, England, immigrated to Kent County, Delaware. Contains genealogical data about other Clayton individuals immigrating to Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1600s. Direct lineage of Joshua shown through six generations. Includes ancestry in England to 1066 A.D. The family settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware, 1801-1904. The family settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware,...

Charles Brown Lore (March 16, 1831 – March 6, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as Attorney General of Delaware and U. S. Representative from Delaware.

Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert (July 1, 1833 – August 29, 1880) was a career United States Army officer, a Union Army General commanding both infantry and cavalry forces in the American Civil War, and a U.S. diplomat.