72 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1657. 



" The suppliant is permitted, agreeably to the capitulation, to 

 take possession of the lands of her lord and father in Printzdorp,' 

 and to use it to her best advantage," was the response of the 

 Director-general. 



The Dutch West India Company had become greatly embar- 

 rassed by the large amount of their debts, which had been in- 

 creased by the aid afforded by the city of Amsterdam, towards 

 the conquest of the Swedes on the Delaware. To liquidate this 

 debt, that part of the South river extending from the west side 

 of Christina kill to the mouth of the bay, " and so far as the 

 Minquas land extended" was, after much negotiation, transferred 

 to that city, with the company's rights and privileges, and sub- 

 ject to conditions agreed upon by the contracting parties. These 

 conditions with a slight modification, were ratified by the States 

 General on the 16th August, 1656 — the Colony thus established 

 taking the name of Nieuer Amstel} 



As the jurisdiction of the City's Colony, as thus established, 

 did not extend over the district claiming our particular attention, 

 the doings within it will only be briefly noticed. The government 

 of the Colony was organized by the establishment of a board of 

 commissioners to reside in the City of Amsterdam ; 40 soldiers 

 were enlisted and placed under the command of Captain Martin 

 Krygier, and Lieutenant Alexander D'PIinoyossa, and 150 emi- 

 grants, freemen and boors, were forthwith dispatched, in three 

 vessels, to settle in the new Colony. Jacob Alrichs accompanied 

 the expedition as Director of New Amstel.'^ 



Alrichs assumed the government of the Colony towards the 

 close of April, 1657, when Hudde was appointed to the com- 

 mand at Fort Christina, (the name of which was changed to Al- 

 tona,) and also of New Gottenburg.^ 



Over the Swedes and Finns, who were exclusively the inhabi- 

 tants of the river above the Colony of the City of Amsterdam, 

 Goeran Vandyck had been appointed with the title of schout fis- 

 scal and under him Anders Jurgen. 



Goeran Vandyck, the schout, suggested to Stuyvesant the 

 necessity of concentrating the Swedish inhabitants, and procured 

 from him a proclamation inviting them to assemble in one settle- 

 ment, either at Upland, Passayunk, Finland, Kingsessing or 

 where they pleased. The invitation was not accepted.* The 

 appointment of " one Jurgin the Finn on Crooked Kill," as court 

 messenger is mentioned.^ 



Andries Hudde, who held a military command under the 

 Company, was also provisionally engaged in the New Amstel 

 Colony, as clerk in " the dispatch of law suits and occurring 



1 See. N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 619-636; Hist. New Netherland, ii. 327-:?:57. 



2 N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 441-446. » Hist. New Nefherlaud,ii. 336. 

 * Acrelius, 421. 5 Haz. Ann. 236. 



