UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Oliver Ellsworth,from1789to1796.
William S. Johnson,”1789”1791.
Roger Sherman,”1791”1793.
S. M. Mitchell,”1793”1795.
Jonathan Trumbull,”1795”1796.
Uriah Tracey,”1796”1807.
J. Hillhouse,”1796”1810.
C. Goodrich,”1807”1813.
S. W. Dana,”1810”1821.
David Doggett,”1813”1819.
James Lanman,”1819”1825.
E. Boardman,”1821”1823.
H. W. Edwards,”1823”1827.
Calvin Willey,”1825”1831.
Samuel A. Foot,”1827”1833.
G. Tomlinson,”1831”1837.
Nathan Smith,”1833”1835.
John M. Niles,”{1835”1839.
1843”1849.
Perry Smith,”1837”1843.
Thaddeus Betts,”1839”1840.
J. W. Huntington,”1840”1847.
R. S. Baldwin,”1847”1851.
Truman Smith,”1849”1855.
Isaac Toucey,”1852”1857.
Francis Gillette,”1854”1856.
L. S. Foster,”1855”1867.
James Dixon,”1857”1869.
Orris S. Ferry,”1867”1879.
W. A. Buckingham,”1869”1875.
Wm. W. Eaton,”1875”1881.
DELAWARE.

The first settlement of Delaware was made by the Swedes, in pursuance of the policy of the valiant Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden. European wars, in which he was engaged, and in which he lost his life in 1633, deferred the project, but it was carried into effect in 1638, near the present city of Wilmington. They extended their settlements from the entrance of Delaware bay far up the river, until the Dutch, from New Netherlands, who claimed the country, attacked and reduced them to submission, uniting New Sweden, as it had been called, to their own colony, in the year 1655. It fell, with that colony, into the hands of the English in 1664. It was included in the grant made to William Penn, in 1692. It was long attached to Pennsylvania, but in 1703 received permission to form a separate government, on the wise and liberal plan pursued by Penn. This form of government continued through the Revolutionary war.

The surface of the State is level, or gently undulating, the climate is agreeable, except that, in winter, the sea breeze is somewhat harsh; the soil is sandy but fertile. Grain and fruit are raised, peaches being produced in great profusion. Her commercial and manufacturing business is limited, and she is destitute of mineral wealth.

It is next to Rhode Island in size, containing the small area of 2,120 square miles, or 1,356,800 acres. Population 125,015.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.
George Read,from1789to1793.
R. Bassett,”1789”1793.
John Vining,”1793”1798.
Kensey Johns,”1794”1795.
Henry Latimer,”1795”1801.
Joshua Clayton,”1798”1799.
W. H. Wells,”{1799”1804.
1813”1817.
Samuel White,”1801”1810.
J. A. Bayard,”1804”1813.
O. Horsey,”1810”1821.
N. Van Dyke,”1817”1826.
C. A. Rodney,”1822”1823.
T. Clayton,”{1824”1827.
1837”1847.
D. Rodney,”1826”1827.
H. Ridgely,”1827”1829.
L. McLane,”1827”1829.
J. M. Clayton,”{1829”1837.
1845”1849.
A. Naudain,”1830”1836.
R. H. Bayard,”1836”1845.
P. Spruance,”1847”1853.
John Wales,”1849”1851.
J. A. Bayard,”1851”1864.
M. W. Bates,”1857”1859.
J. P. Comeygs,”1856”1857.
W. Saulsbury,”1859”1871.
G. R. Riddle,”1864”1867.
J. A. Bayard,”1867”1869.
Thomas F. Bayard,”1869”1881.
Eli Saulsbury,”1871”1877.