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heard this intelligence, he was involved in acrimonious controversy with 

 his troublesome neighbors of Connecticut, but resolved on direful ven- 

 geance.^ Having fitted out a fleet, Stuyvesant sailed for the Delaware 

 on Sept. 5, 1655, and after sundry stoppages arrived before Fort Casimer 

 on the 10th, landed his force and demanded the surrender of the place ; 

 the commander, Sven Schute, asked leave to communicate with Eysingh 

 at Fort Christina ; this being refused, the fort was surrendered on arti- 

 cles of capitulation. Stuyvesant then proceeded to the latter fort, and 

 after a siege of fourteen days, it also was surrendered by Eysingh ; articles 

 of capitulation were signed, according to which the Swedes were suffered 

 to vacate the fort with flying colors, and the Governor and as many 

 persons as might choose to accompany him, besides being allowed their 

 private property, Avere offered a free passage to Sweden, whither they 

 ultimately returned. Thus ended, on Sept. 25, 1655, the short career of 

 Governor Eysingh and with him fell the whole Swedish Colony. 



Many improvements were made by the Swedes from Henlopen to the 

 Falls of Alumningh or Saukikans.^ They laid the foundation of Upland, 

 the present Chester ; Korsholm Fort was built at Passaiung ; Manaiung 

 Fort was placed at the mouth of the Schuylkill ; they marked the sites 

 of Nya Wasa and Gripsholm, somewhere near the confluence of the 

 Delaware and Schuylkill rivers; Straws Wijk, and Nieu Causeland (the 

 present New Castle); and forts were erected at Kinsessing, Wicacoa 

 (Southwark), Finlandt, Meulendael and Lapananel. On the Eastern 

 shore the Swedes had settlements at Swedesborough and other places. 



In the list of Swedes residing in New Sweden in 1693, given by Cam- 

 panius, we find the name of Jacob Clemsson, supposed to be the ancestor 

 of the Clemsons of Lancaster County. 



Trumbull, in his history of Connecticut, states "that in 1640 some 

 persons at New Haven, by Captain Nathaniel Turner, their agent, pur- 

 chased for thirty pounds sterling a large tract of land, for a number of 

 plantations, on both sides of Delaware bay or river, with a view to trade, 

 and for the settlement of churches in gospel order and purity : that the 

 colony of New Haven erected trading houses upon the lands, and sent 

 nearly 50 families to make settlements upon them ; and that settlements 

 were made under the jurisdiction of New Haven, and in close combina- 

 tion with that colony, in all their fundamental articles." It is difficult to 

 determine the truth of these allegations, but it seems that Connecticut 

 traders did visit the Delaware for purposes of trade and were very uncer- 

 emoniously treated by the Swedes and the Dutch under Kieft in 1642, 

 who expelled them, seized their goods and imprisoned them. The re- 

 monstrances and claims of indemnity made by Governor Winthrop to 

 Kieft and Printz were disregarded. 



1 Gordon. Hazard. 2 Gordon. 



