CONSIGNOR, contracts. One who makes a consignment to another. 2. When goods are consigned to be sold on commission, and the property remains in the consignor; or when goods have been consigned upon a credit, and the consignee has become a bankrupt or failed, the consignor has a right to stop them in transitu. (q.v.) Abbot on Sh. p. 3, c. 3.
Only in December 1865, when the 13th Amendment went into effect on a national scale, did slavery cease in Delaware. By then there were only a few hundred left. Many male slaves had enlisted in black regiments during the war.
Delaware was named after Lord De la Warr, one of the first governors of Virginia, by Capt. Samuel Argall of the Virginia Colony who visited the area in 1610. The first non-native settlement was founded in 1631. Found in: Trivia. PREVIOUS ARTICLELawrence Welk Born in Strasburg.