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places within the present hmits of Delaware and Penn- 

 sylvania; among these maybe enumerated, Moco;7onam, 

 the preient town of Chester, Manaiung, a fort at the 

 mouth of the Scluiyikiil. They seemed to flourish ; but 

 amid their prosperity, some envied them; for it appears, 

 the Dutch colonists viewed the Swedes as rivals, or in- 

 truders. Notwithstanding the solenm protestations of the 

 Swedes, the Dutch built a fort in 1651, at New Castle, in 

 the very heart of New Sweden. Risingh, Printz's suc- 

 cessor, by a well raalurcd stratagem, displaced the intru- 

 ders. Ttiis SU2CCSS did not daunt the Dutch;— viewed as 

 an insu'.t to tliem,P^'tor Stuyvesant, Dutch governor, em- 

 barked at New Amsterdam, with an armament consisting 

 of six vassals, and sevan hundred choice men; invaded 

 New Swadeii; reduced the whole colony, in 1655. Al- 

 though the Swadish empire was of brief destiny; the tri- 

 umph of the Dutch was alike short. "In 1664, Charles 

 II. of England, regardless of previous settlements by 

 others, deemed it not inexpedient to grant all the large 

 territory, not only of New Nctherland, but New Sweden, 

 to his brother, the L'uke of York: and the country was 

 taken possession of by an expedition of three ships and 

 six huiJrad men, u ider the connuand of Col. Richard 

 Nichols. New Amsterdam was thenceforth called New- 

 York." The Duke's grant, from the King, also included 

 New Jersey. He likewise obtained Delaware. In 1682 

 William Penn purchased New Castle, and the country 

 for a coni])ass of tv/elvc miles around it, of the Duke of 

 York; luid afterwards extanded liis j)urchase to Cape 

 Henloi)tn. This country, called the Lower Couniics of 

 Delaware, remained a portion of the colony of Pcmisyl- 

 rania, till I70i3. 



