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The IToohhanmer Company probably resulted from the dis- 

 putes and Jealousies that occurred amonn; the Directors of the 

 Dutch West Lidia Company. The privileges' granted to him 

 and his associates were ample and liberal in respect to trade and 

 commerce, very much more liberal than the Dutch West India 

 Company granted to their patroons. In addition to the office 

 of general agent of the crown of Sweden, it is highly probable 

 that Jost De Bogardt held the post of commander of this new 

 colony, as he is mentioned as occupying that position, in the in- 

 structions to Governor Printz, issued in 1642.^ 



Peter Hollandare, a Swede, appointed to succeed Peter Minuit 

 as governor of New Sweden, arrived in the first of the vessels 

 that brought out the Dutch colony,^ or what is more probable, 

 came in one of the vessels sent shortly afterwards for the relief 

 and reinforcement of the colony at Christina. His administra- 

 tion continued but one year and a half, when he returned to 

 occupy a military post in his native country.^ 



Since the unsuccessful effort of George Holmes and his small 

 company in 1G35, we have no notice of any attempt by the 

 English to make a settlement on our river till about this period. 

 Their operations, even now, are involved in much uncertainty. 

 Mr. Samuel Hazard, whose investigations have thrown so much 

 light on the early settlements on the Delaware, after diligent 

 search among the ancient records of New England, " can collect 

 but little definite information on the subject," except that several 

 attempts at settlement Avere made.^ In a Dutch document, 

 characteristically long, descriptive of New Netherland, publish- 

 ed in 1649, the efforts of the English "at divers times and places 

 to annex this South river," is adverted to. According to this 

 authority they had, previously to that time, been prevented from 

 making actual settlements "by divers protests and by being ex- 

 pelled by force, well knowing if they but once happened to settle 

 there, the river would be lost, or cause considerable trouble."" 



In the records of the United Colonies, evidence exists that an 

 effort was made in 1640 to plant a colony from New Haven. A 

 Captain Turner, agent for New Haven made a large purchase 

 "on both sides of Delaware bay and river." Besides trade, the 

 object of the purchase " was for the settlement of churches in 

 gospel order and purity."" 



In the year 1641, against the anxious admonition of Director 

 General Kieft,- a company of emigrants from New Haven, pro- 



' For an English translation of this grant, see Haz. Reg. iv. 178. 



2 lb. 220. 3 Hist. New Netherland, i. 365. 



< Acrelius, N. Y. Hist. Col. N. S. i. 410; Clay's Ann. 18. 



i Haz. Ann. 57. 6 N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 292. 



' Hnz. Ann. (as extracted from Haz. Hist. Col.) 57: also Trumbull Hist. Con. i. 116. 



* N. Y. Col. Doc. ii. 144 : Hist. New Netherland, i. 253. 



