The Swedish settled the Delaware river in 1638. The name of the settlement was New Sweden and it lasted from 1638 to 1655.
The swedes founded the first permanent settlement.
The Puritans
The Delaware Valley and River region is understood to have been settled by two native American tribal groups. The Delaware Indians settled to the north, while the Leni Lenape were in the south.
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The Delaware River.
The Delaware River was named after Delaware because the Cherokee indeans named Delaware and the Delaware River.
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Delaware River Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
The Dutch first settled in the area in the 1600s. Native Americans were the Delaware, Mahican and Wappinger tribes--part of the Algonquin language group.