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as far as ten pounds, without appeal. The English laws were established 

 in the town, and among the inhabitants, on both sides of Delaware. The 

 office of Sellout was converted into that of Sheriff, for the Corporation 

 and river, annually chosen. And they were to have free trade, without 

 being obliged to make entry at New York, as before."^ 



"The fears of the Government of Maryland, lest the title of Lord Bal- 

 timore to the country on Delaware Bay should be weakened by non- 

 claim, produced occasional irruptions of a very hostile character."^ An 

 act of violence was committed at HoarkilP [1672] by a party of Mary- 

 landers led by one Jones, who seized the magistrates and other inhabi- 

 tants, plundered them and carried off the booty. They were Joined by 

 one Daniel Brown, a planter of lioarkill. Brown was soon taken, sent 

 to New York, and there tried and convicted ; but on promise of amend- 

 ment and security given for his good behavior in future, was dismissed. 



Grovernor Lovelace wrote a letter to Governor Calvert of Maryland, 

 on this aggression, and instructed Captain Carr, his deputy at Delaware, 

 to resist future aggressions. 



Charles II having declared war against the States General of Holland, 

 Dutch privateers soon infested the American coasts, and plundered the 

 inhabitants of New Castle and Hoarkill. With a view to repairing their 

 losses, permission was granted to them by the government to impose, 

 for one year, a duty of four guilders, payable in wampum,' on each anker 

 of strong rum imported or sold there. Wampum being the chief cur- 

 rency of the country and scarce, the Governor and council of New York 

 issued a proclamation increasing its value, whereby " instead of eight 

 white a;nd four black, six white and three black should pass for a stiver: 

 and three times so much the value in silver. This is the Indian money, 

 by them called Wan)x>um; by the Dutcli^ Seivant. It is worked out of 

 shells, into the form of beads, and perforated to string on leather. Six 

 beads were formerly valued at a Stiver ; twenty Stivers made what they 



1 ProiKl. 2 Gordon. 



^Uoarkill, the settlement so called, from a small river, or creek, near Cape-Inlopen, 

 or Renhpen, at the mouth of Delaicare bay, was a place of considerable imjjortance to 

 the Swedes about that time, though since chiefly become a residence for pilots only, 

 and called Leicis-toion; before which, at the entrance of the bay, is the road for ships. 



This place (from an old MS.) is said to have been named Hoarkill by the Dutcli,, 

 from the Indians prostituting their young women to the Netherlander s : otherwise it is 

 by David Piertersz de Uries, who, about the year 1630, first endeavoured to settle there, 

 called Sioanendale. 



Other accounts afBrm that the original of the name arose from the winding and 

 turning of the creek, much in the shape of a horn, whence the Dutch word, Iloernkill : 

 this is the tradition of the inhabitants there, &c. But soon after it came into the hands 

 of the English, it took the above name of Lewis-toicn, and the creek appears to be much 

 diminished, &c. — Proud. 



