44 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1646. 



ported to show the rough and vulgar expressions, his excellency 

 was capable of using in the presence of a lady.' 



Nor were the Dutch annoyed alone by the Swedes. A letter^ 

 from President Eaton of New Haven, to Governor Kieft, dated 

 August 12th, 1646, 0. S., complains of "-injuries and outrages," 

 to the persons and estates of the English, received at Manhattaes, 

 Delaware river, &c. Since the removal of the English colony 

 from Salem creek, there is no account of that people being 

 present in the river, except those in conference with Governor 

 Printz, above mentioned, and a trading vessel from Boston in 

 1644 ; four of whose crew were inhumanly murdered by the 

 Indians, and the balance — a man and a boy carried off by them. 

 These, through the instrumentality of Governor Printz, were 

 procured from their captors and sent to Boston — the man to be 

 tried for his life on the charge of having betrayed the vessel into 

 the hands of the Indians.^ 



It is not very creditable to the Rev. John Campanius, who 

 accompanied Governor Printz to America, that he has not fur- 

 nished a better account of the progress of ecclesiastical affairs 

 during his residence. He was no doubt much occupied in learn- 

 ing the language of the Indians, into which he translated Luther's 

 catechism. This work was partly accomplished during the six 

 years he resided in New Sweden. The Rev. Reorus Torkillus 

 dying about the time of the arrival of Campanius, the latter no 

 doubt officiated at Christina as well as at New Gottenburg. During 

 the year 1646, a church was erected at the seat of government 

 at Tinicum, which was consecrated to divine services on the 4th 

 of September and also its burying place, by the Rev'd pastor. 

 " The first corpse that was buried there was that of Catharine, 

 the daughter of Andrew Hanson. She was buried on the 28th 

 of October, in the same year being the feast of St. Simon and 

 St Jude."" 



The site of the burying place, and doubtless that of the church 

 also, was close on the margin of the river, and is now occupied 

 by a part of its bed between the Lazaretto and Tinicum hotel, 

 but nearer the latter. It is not many years since human bones 

 were seen protruding from the undermined and receding bank of 

 the river. 



The younger Campanius relates that " the Indians were fre- 

 quent visitors at his grandfather's house. When for the first 

 time he performed divine service in the Swedish congregation, 

 they came to hear him, and greatly wondered that he had so 



1 Iludde's Report, 436. 



2 For the lotter, see N. Y. Hist. Col. i. 191, in which it is republished from vol. ii. 

 Haz. Hist. Col. 



* Haz. Ann. 82, as extracted from Winthrop's Journal. 



* Campanius, 79-80. 



