three lower counties
A Deputy of the Duke governed Delaware from 1664 to 1682. When William Penn received his land grant of Pennsylvania in 1681, he received the Delaware area from the Duke of York, and dubbed them "The Three Lower Counties on the Delaware River". While never incorporated into Pennsylvania, Delaware was under its administration, and although the two established separate assemblies in 1704, they shared the same governor until the Revolutionary War.
The three lower colonies
New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Pennsylvania was once called New Sweden.
There are more than four countries that were once French colonies. Vietnam was once a French colony, as was Algeria, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritius, part of India, part of the United States, and many others.
Once Penn established the water route to his capital in Philadelphia thing began to really perk up. The Colony was no longer in the wilderness, the Native Americans were not hostile to the Quakers and new settlements began to spring up.
Connecticut colony
no. It was a Spanish colony.
Brazil is the answer. It was once a Portuguese colony and referred to as Colonial Brazil.
Louisiana was once a French colony as well as Canada and Haiti.
Delaware
The main function of what was once a colony, but is now modern day New York, was to produce timber and other building supplies for the lower colonies, as the area was once heavily forrested.