82 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1662. 



the court, he is a ruined man, and submits a petition to the 

 Governor in which his deep humility is apparent. He alleges 

 that he broke the door in search of his wife, and both in this 

 proceeding and in his marriage by himself, he acted in ignorance. 

 He had already paid nearly 200 gl. and craved the aid of the 

 General to save him from further punishment, and also to " save 

 his reputation and condition as a minister."^ 



A corn-mill was now in the course of erection at " Turtle 

 Falls, about one and a half miles (Dutch) from Fortress Altona," 

 on condition, however, " that the garrison should not pay for 

 their grist." A mill of some kind was in existence at New Am- 

 stel called a Rosmolen (Ross mill,) to which the people of Altona 

 resorted, or when they could not be served, were compelled to go 

 to the old ^'Swedish miW at the distance of six miles (Dutch) 

 from Altona. This old Swedish mill was the mill built by Gover- 

 nor Printz on Cobb's creek. 



The West India Company having assented to a favorable modi- 

 fication of the conditions under which the City of Amsterdam held 

 its colony, and the city having agreed to furnish pecuniary aid to 

 emigrants, a reasonable prospect was presented, that immigration 

 in that direction would proceed with great rapidity. Among 

 those who were allured by the proposed advantages, was a com- 

 munity of Menonists, who proposed to plant themselves at Hore- 

 kill. Their articles of association are remarkably singular. 

 The associators were to be married men or single men twenty-four 

 years old. Clergymen were excluded from the community, as 

 were also, " all intractable people — such as those in communion 

 with the Roman See ; Usurious Jews ; English stiff-necked Qua- 

 kers ; Puritans ; fool-hardy believers in the Millennium ; and 

 obstinate modern pretenders to revelation." Laws, subject to 

 the approval of the authorities of the City of Amsterdam could 

 be passed by the votes of two thirds of the members, but no 

 magistrate was to be allowed any compensation for his services — 

 *' not even a stiver."^ 



Enticed by the favorable terms offered to emigrants by the 

 City of Amsterdam, sixteen or eighteen families, chiefly Finns, 

 had embraced them by removing within it^ jurisdiction. They 

 were to be eighteen years free from tax and to have their own 

 judges and religion, Avhile at the same time they meant to retain 

 the lands from which they emigrated.^ 



The location of Printzdorp has presented a difficulty to wri- 

 ters on the early settlements on the Delaware. The following 

 extract from a letter written by Beekman to the Director-general 



1 Haz. Ann. 332. Ac. 



2 Broadhead's Hist. N. Y. 1698.— N. Y. Col. Doc ii. 175. 



3 Haz. Ann. 337, from Albany Rec. 



