3-i AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



in America ; lie died in 1643, aged 35. The establishment of the Swedes 

 led to remonstrances on the part of Kieft, then director-general of New 

 Netherland, which were unheeded by Minnewit, whose intercourse with 

 the Indians was of an amicable character. Minnewit died at Christina 

 several years afterwards. 



John Printz, appointed Governor, accompanied by John Campanius, 

 with another colony, on board the ship of war " Fame," and the trans- 

 port "Swan," arrived in the Delaware on February 15th, 16-13, at Fort 

 Christina, after a passage of 150 days. Agreeably to his instructions, he 

 erected on the island of Tennekong or Tinnicum, a fort called New Got- 

 tenberg, a handsome residence which he named PrintzhofY or Printz Hall, 

 and a church. The principal inhabitants had their dwellings and plan- 

 tations on this island. His instructions acknowledged the right of soil 

 in the Indians, directed him to confirm the contract made by Minnewit, 

 to maintain a just, upright and amicable intercourse with them, and if 

 possible also with the Dutch : still, in case of hostile interference on their 

 part, he was to "repel force by force." 



During the same year Printz is said to have erected on or near the 

 present Salem creek, another fort called Elftsborg or Elsingborg, for the 

 purpose of shutting up the river, a matter which greatly exasperated the 

 Dutch whose ships, when passing, had to lower their colors and were 

 boarded by the Swedes. Eeport says that the latter had, however, soon 

 to vacate the fort on account of the mosquitoes, and that they called it 

 Moschettosburg. 



Two years before this, in 16-11, some sixty English from New Eng- 

 land had settled at Salem Creek and on the Schuylkill, whom the vigilant 

 Kieft speedily expelled. 



Printz returned to Sweden in 1653, leaving his son-in-law, John Pappe- 

 goya, vice-governor, who in 1651: also returned to Sweden, and John 

 Eysingh, commissary and counsellor, assumed the government. The 

 Dutch, in addition to the forts at Nassau and Lewistown (Hoarkill,) had 

 erected Fort Casimir at Sandhocken, the present site of Newcastle. The 

 Swedes, not relishing its close proximity to Christina, Eysingh followed 

 up the remonstrances of his predecessor Printz, by demanding its sur- 

 render ; but receiving a refusal, determined to take it by force or strata- 

 gem. Approaching the fort he fired two salutes, landed some twenty or 

 thirty soldiers, whom the commandant received as friends ; but perceiv- 

 ing the weakness of the garrison, they forthwith mastered it, seized the 

 effects, and forced those who chose to remain to take the oath of allegi- 

 ance to the Queen of Sweden. The capture of the fort having taken 

 place on Trinity Sunday, they changed its name into Trefalldigheet or 

 Trinity. 



When Stuyvesant, then Governor at Fort Amsterdam (New York,) 



