1656.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 71 



charfjc lier cargo at a reduced duty, and to take in provision for 

 her return voyage. 



The conquest of New Sweden was not quietly acquiesced in 

 hy the home government. Their minister protested against the 

 outrage, and chiimed restitution,' but this chiim was disregarded ; 

 the Dutch being well aware that nothing more serious than paper 

 missiles could be resorted to, the Swedes at that time being en- 

 gaged in a war Avith Poland. The Directors of the West India 

 Company did not hesitate to communicate to Stuyvesant their 

 approbation, in general, of his conduct.^ 



After Governor Printz left the country, his plantation at 

 Tinieum seems to have been very much neglected, and for a time 

 wholly abandoned. The interference of Commander Jaquet to 

 prevent his daughter, Mrs. Papegoya from resuming the possess- 

 ion of the property, gave this lady occasion to memorialize the 

 Director-general. She says, "It is, without doubt, well known 

 to the Director-general, that our late lord governor, my highly 

 revered lord and father, prepared a farm, partly cultivated by 

 freemen, who are returned to Sweden, and surrendered it to him, 

 and partly cleared by his orders, and cultivated for several years; 

 that this was granted by the King (Queen ?), and by the present 

 royal majesty was confirmed, but which now since three years, 

 being abandoned, was again covered with bushes, and the dwel- 

 ling-house nearly destroyed by the Indians, and so I have been 

 obliged to repair it, by three Finns, and to sow its fields, when, 

 unexpectedly, I was forbidden by the present commander, to take 

 possession of it again ; wherefore I am compelled to inform the 

 Director-general of this event, with humble supplication that it 

 may please him graciously, and from the friendship between him 

 and my lord and father, to favor me with this possession, as I 

 am confident his honor will do ; and solicit further that my people 

 may remain unmolested at Printzdorp,^ and continue to cultivate 

 its soil ; and that his Honor, (fcc, may be pleased to grant me, 

 for my greater security, letters patent for that spot, and so too 

 for Tinnakonk. I hope that my lord and father Avill acknowledge 

 it as a mark of great friendship, and as far as it is in his power, 

 be remunerated with thankfulness ; Avith which I recommend the 

 Director-general to the protection of God Almight}'. Dated at 

 Tinnakonk August 3, 1656. The Director General's humble 

 servant, Armgard Printz."* 



» Ilaz. Reg. i. 36; N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 587. 515, Ac; Haz. Ann. 210. The final settlement 

 of this controversy wa«i not made till 1667. See Hist. New Xetherlaml, ii. Appendi.x H. 



* The directors regarded the capitulation as too formal, and make that the occasion 

 of giving Stuyvesant a lesson in diplomacy. " What is written and copied," they say 

 " I* too lontj preserved, and may sometime, tchen it is neither desired nor expected, be 

 brought forward, ichereas words not recorded, are by lemjth of time foryotten, or may 

 be explained, construed or excused. Haz. Ann. 209. 



* The precise location of Printzdorp will be established hereafter. 



* Albany Rec. xi. 618; xiii. 154; Haz. Ann. 219. 



