Dover, DE

Dover Hundred, the capital of Delaware, and seat of justice of Kent Co, is a borough on Jones's creek, 10 miles from its entrance into Delaware bay, 50 miles south of Wilmington; 120 miles from Washington.  It is built on four principal streets which intersecting form a square in the centre of the town.  Here is an elegant statehouse and several churches, banks, and other public buildings, are in the vicinity.  The buildings are neat and generally of brick.  It contains a monument erected to the memory of Col John Haslett, who fell at the battle of Princeton in 1777.

The population; in 1840 was about 900; in 1820 was 600; in 1830 was 1,300; in 1840 was 3,790 and in 1850 was 4,207