A Pirate’s Life for Me!

Discover Delaware’s maritime challenges during the American Revolution, where both British and American privateers clashed along its coast. Learn about the Letters of Marque that empowered privateers like Robert Burton and Matthew Aiken to defend or disrupt colonial waters.

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Guide to Revolutionary War Records

Delaware Public Archives

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YES, I’m Finally A Member!

Have you been trying to join a lineage based society and hit a brick wall?  Maybe we can help. We did the other day when a patron came in to see if she could find documentation on an ancestor so that she could join the Society of Colonial Inn Keepers.  She was surprised at all the […]

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