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HISTORY
Established in 1683
In about 1670 the English began to settle in the valley of the St. Jones River formally known as Wolf Creek. On
June 21, 1680, The Duke of York chartered St. Jones County, which was carved out of New Amstel/New Castle County
and Hoarkill/Sussex County. St. Jones County was transferred to William Penn on August 24, 1682, and became part
of Penn's newly chartered Delaware Colony. Penn ordered a court town to be laid out, and the courthouse was built
in 1697. The town of Dover was finally laid out in 1717, and became the capitol of Delaware in 1777. In 1787 Delaware
was first to ratify the U.S. Constitution, and became "the First State." Kent County was a small grain
farming region in the 18th Century. More recently, in the 1960's, Dover was the scene of the manufacturing of the
spacesuits worn by NASA astronauts in the Apollo moon flights by ILC Dover, now based in the small town of Frederica.
County Website:
http://www.co.kent.de.us/
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Old Barratt's Chapel (Methodist), Route 113,
Frederica vicinity, Kent County, DE
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Adjacent Counties
New Castle County, DE
- north
Salem County, NJ - northeast¹
Cumberland County, NJ - east¹
Cape May County, NJ - east¹
Sussex County, DE
- south
Caroline County, MD - southwest
Queen Anne's County,
MD - west
Kent County, MD - west
¹ Across Delaware bay, not a landed border
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