78 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1660. 



Others were fur maintaining their own rights, in keeping their 

 own farms and lots. Miss Printz, (as Mrs. Papegoya is usually 

 called by the Dutch writers,) was among the latter. She could 

 not remove her residence, " the heavy building not permitting 

 her to change it, and the church where she usually worships being 

 upon that spot." She says further that " she offers her lands 

 without any compensation, but can nevertheless induce no 

 person to settle in her neighborhood."' 



Finding that the Swedes could not agree among themselves, 

 Beekman commanded a list to be delivered to him within eight 

 or ten days, designating where it suits best for every person to 

 fix his future residence ; promising his assent in case it comport- 

 ed with the Governor's order ; otherwise he would be compelled 

 to designate where each of them should reside. At the urgent 

 request of the Swedes, from four to six weeks more time was 

 granted ; Miss Printz and others requesting Beekman to aid them ; 

 for which purpose, he informs Stuyvesant, " more soldiers will be 

 required." At the solicitation of the Swedish Commissaries, 

 Beekman asks permission from the Governor to allow the Swe- 

 dish nation, "to remain in their present possessions till they have 

 harvested their corn." He had understood that they intended to 

 unite them in one village at Perslajough,^ &c. Peter Kock, 

 Peter Andrieson and Hans Moenson w^ere among those who took 

 a decided stand against removing to Passayunk. There was not 

 sufficient land obtained there "for the pasture of their creatures,"' 

 and they " ardently wished not to remove." They add "if com- 

 pelled to go, then we will go, or depart to a spot ivhere ive may 

 live in peace.''^ 



Beekman eventually became convinced of the injustice of the 

 order for removing the Swedes into one village. He represented 

 to Stuyvesant that it was "unmerciful to force people from their 

 cultivated lands, and put them to new labor and expense." The 

 Swedes were therefore allowed to remain at their respective 

 settlements ; a result not brought about by any kind feelings en- 

 tertained towards them by the Director-general. Persuasion had 

 failed, and as for compulsion, the means were not at hand. The 

 Swedes outnumbered the Dutch on the river, and within the ter- 

 ritory of the company, very few if any Dutch had settled. Dis- 

 sensions were also rapidly growing between the officials of the 

 two Colonies. More favorable privileges being offered by D'Hin- 

 oyossa, a number of Swedes had joined the city colony, and 

 others had removed to Sassafras river.^ Apprehensions that the 

 whole Swedish territory would be abandoned, may also have had 

 some weight in suspending the operation of this iniquitous measure. 



1 Beekman's letter to Stuyvesant, Ilaz. Ann. .306. 



2 Passayunk. ^ llaz. Ann. 314. * Acrelius, 422. 



