1662.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 83 



on the 14th of Se{)tember, 1662, leaves no room for doufit on 

 that subject. 



"I inquired, at the request of Hendrick Iluyfren, into the 

 situation of a certain lot of land, situated at the south-west side 

 of Upland-kill, and was informed by the Swe<lish commissaries, 

 and otlier ancient inhabitants of the said nation, that aforesaid 

 tract is called Printzs inUat/e, which had already het-n in posses- 

 sion, during sixteen yenrs^ of the Swedish Governor John Print z, 

 and his daughter, who owns it. I cannot hear that this tract 

 has ever been in possession of one Hans Ammonsen or his heirs, 

 or that any land was cultivated by him in that neighborhood, 

 but well that it was said so of one Elias Sullengreen, after the 

 arrival of Governor Rysingh, that his wife's father had a dona- 

 tion in writing from Queen Christina, of a certain piece of 

 land, situated between iMary's corner (Marytjens Iloeck) and 

 Upland kill. I receive(l this information this day at Fort 

 Altona."' 



The grant to John Amundson Besh, by Queen Christina in 

 1653, appears to have the same position as Printz's village. It 

 will be remembered that Amundson did not accompany the ex- 

 pedition of Rysingh as military commander, agreeably to his 

 appointment, at the time the grant was made to him. This circum- 

 stance may have led to its revocation. It will also be remembered 

 that Governor Printz, in 1647, after the royal grant of Tinicum 

 had been made to him, asked her Swedish Majesty to " confer on 

 him certain lands and occupations."- Doubtless these lands had 

 been laid off and particularly designated in his application ; and 

 as the time this application was made, accords well with the time 

 that "the Swedish commissaries and other ancient inhabitants," 

 remembered that the tract on the south side of Upland kill had 

 been in possession of the Governor and his daughter, no doubt 

 can remain as to the locality oi Printzdorp.^ 



It is quite possible that Governor Printz may not have received 

 a grant for this land before his return to Sweden. The claimant 

 Sullengreen seems to have been the son-in-law of Amundson. 



A murder was committed by an Indian within four hundred 

 rods of Fort Altona, for which the Minquas were suspected. This 

 happened on the 17th of November, and on the 3rd of December, 

 three Minquas chiefs with their suite presented themselves at the 

 fort. The Swedish commissary, with Mr. Huygens and Jacob 

 Swens being sent for, the chiefs charge the offence on a captive 

 Seneca residing among their tribe. In their remarks, the chiefs 

 aver that it cannot be proven that the Christians have ever been 

 injured or offended by their nation ; "but on the contrary they 



1 Haz. Ann. 3S9.— Albany Rec. xvii. 238. -' Haz. Reg. iv. 315. 



•* This will be more I'ully continued hereafter. 



