1655.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. t>9 



its sudden downfall was manifestly the direct result of the rash, 

 unjustifiable and unauthorized acts of Governor Rysingh, in 

 capturing Fort Casiniir. 



The hardships of the Swedes, though they were not protracted 

 under the Dutch government, did not terminate with the capture 

 of their forts. We are informed by Acrelius, that " the flower 

 of their troops were picked out and sent to New Amsterdam, 

 under the pretext of their free choice, the men were forcibly 

 carried §n board the ships. The women were ill treated in their 

 houses, the goods pillaged, and the cattle killed.""' 



But little has come down to us in respect to the domestic 

 administration of affairs in the Swedish Colony. The admin. s- 

 tration of justice was doubtless conducted by means of a military 

 tribunal of which the Governor was the head. Printz felt himself 

 disqualified for the performance of the duties of a judge, and in 

 a dispatch to the Swedish West nidia Company, dated February 

 20th, 1647, he makes known his difficulty in this wise : " Again, 

 I have several times solicited to obtain a learned and able man. 

 1st, To administer justice and attend to the law business, some- 

 times very intricate cases occurring, in which it is difficult, and 

 never ought to be for one and the same person to appear in Court 

 as plaintiff as well as judge."- .... As the seat of govern- 

 ment was located at Tinicum from the commencement of the 

 Administration of Governor Printz, it may be concluded that the 

 seat of justice was also located there. 



Mrs. Papegoya the daughter of Governor Printz, it will have 

 been seen did not return to Sweden with her husband. For 

 many years she continued to reside at Tinicum, rather in poverty 

 than affluence. Tinicum is no longer mentioned as a fortified 

 place, and if the fort was not destroyed by the Dutch as mentioned 

 by Campanius, it was suffered by them to go into decay. 



The government of the Dutch on the river was established by 

 the appointment of John Paul Jaquet as vice-director, and com- 

 mander-in-chief, and Andreas Hudde as secretary and surveyor, 

 and keeper of the keys of the fort, kc. The council was to consist 

 of the vice-director, Hudde, Elmerhuysen Klienand two sergeants 

 in purely military affairs ; in matters purely civil, or between 

 freemen and the company's servants, two of the most expert 

 freemen were to be substituted for the two sergeants. The in- 

 structions given Jaquet, show a want of confidence in the Swedes. 

 " Good notice" was to be taken of their behaviour, and in case 

 any of them were found to be not well affected, they were re- 

 quired to depart, "with all imaginable civility,'" and if possible 



1 Acrelius, 417. 



■^ Record of Upland court, 29, (note) as copied from Swedish MSS., Archive 

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 



