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The City of Wilmington,
like most eastern cities,
has been evolving for
over 350 years. After
periods of Swedish (1638),
then Dutch (1655), then
British (1664) colonization,
the area stabilized
under British rule (with
Quaker influence) and
was granted a borough
charter in 1739 by the
King of England which
changed the name from
Willington (after Thomas
Willing, the first 'developer"
of the land who organized
the area in a grid pattern
like Philadelphia) to
Wilmington, presumably
after Spencer Compton,
Earl of Wilmington,
a favorite of the King.
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