If one New Jersey senator has his way, New Jersey will call Delaware Bay something else and will get some land from Delaware.

The present-day name was given in 1610 by Sir Samuel Argall, a British sea captain, who named the bay after Sir Thomas West, De La Warr, who was the governor of the Virginia colony at the time. The ...

The present-day name was given in 1610 by Sir Samuel Argall, a British sea captain, who named the bay after Sir Thomas West, De La Warr, who was the governor of the Virginia colony at the time.