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the first settlers in Delaware were the Dutch but then sweden took over but the dutch wanted back and so they did.

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As explorers it was the English, as settlers and traders it was the Dutch West Indies Company and the first Colonists were the Swedes.

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The first people in the state of Delaware were Native America Indians called Lenni-Lenape (meaning - original people), who spoke an Algonquian language.

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The Dutch West Indies Company.

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The Dutch.

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