Major Peter Jaquett was a hero and distinguished officer who served in thirty-two battles of the American Revolution with the Delaware Continentals. He was a native of New Castle County, born at Long Hook on 6th of April, 1755. He died at the age of 79 on 13 September 1834 and is buried in Old Swedes Cemetery. For more information on Peter Jaquett, click here.

Early in 1994 our founding president, William B. Neal, agreed to organize a chapter that would include the Northern and Eastern sections of New Castle County. Invitations were mailed to prospective charter members in March, and on the 10th day of April 1994 the Delaware Society's Board of Managers approved petitions to grant a charter to the Major Peter Jaquett Chapter. The Chapter's organizing meeting was held at the General Robinson House on the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, April 13, 1994. The charter was presented on September 14, 1994, the one hundred and eightieth anniversary of "The Star Spangled Banner". The national anthem was sung and toasts were given to the President of the United States, to the Governor of the State of Delaware, and to Major Peter Jaquett and the Patriots of the American Revolution. Delaware's Governor Thomas Carper spoke of the challenges of today's patriots.