Editing Delaware Colony (section)

==English conquest==
In 1664, after English Colonel [[Richard Nicolls]] captured [[New Amsterdam]], Robert Carr was sent to the [[Delaware River]] settlements. He took over New Amstel, pillaging it and mistreating its settlers, some of whom he sold into slavery in Virginia.<ref>{{cite book| author=Scharf, John Thomas|title=General history|publisher=L. J. Richards & Company|date=1888|page=67}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Gerrit van Sweeringen's account of the settling of the Dutch and Swedes at the Delawaare in: Pennsylvania archives|date=1877|publisher=J. Severns & Company|page=752}}</ref> Carr translated the name of the post from Dutch into English and it has been known since as [[New Castle, Delaware|New Castle]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/> Carr and his troops continued down the shore, ravaging and burning settlements, including a Mennonite utopian community led by [[Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy]] near present-day [[Lewes, Delaware]]. This effectively ended the Dutch rule of the colony and, for that matter, ended their claims to any land in colonial North America. The English took over New Netherland, renaming it New York. Delaware was thenceforth claimed by New York under a Deputy of the [[James II of England|Duke of York]] from 1664 to 1682, but neither the Duke nor his colonists controlled it. The proprietors of Maryland took action to take advantage of this situation.<ref name="encyclopedia"/>