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from thirty-five to thirty-six thousand guiklers are estimated for 

 this trade and that of the Indians. In the same document it is 

 especially urged, that a contract be immediately made for fifty 

 head of slaves, " for procuring which the West India Company 

 had a ship ready to sail." These slaves were ordered in pur- 

 suance of a report made by Director Alexander d'llinoyosa, who 

 regarded them as '* particularly adapted to the preparation of the 

 va!It'//s which are found exceedingly fertile."' 



Hendrick Iluygens, the commissary, is about to remove from 

 iV. Lei/den which was on Tinicum. He probably fixed his resi- 

 dence at Upland, as he reports to Bcckman, "a horrid deed" 

 that was committed at that place by a Finn named Jan Ilen- 

 drickson against " the honest Juriaen Kuys Sneart, whom he had 

 cruelly beaten. "- 



The Swedes entertained a more kindly feeling towards the 

 officials of the City Colony, than towards those of the Company, 

 which appears to have been reciprocated ; for no sooner is the 

 authority of the City extended over the Swedish settlements, 

 than we find Peter Kock, a Swede, appointed to the important 

 trust of "collector of tolls on imports and exports from the Colony 

 of the city," and Israel [Helm,] another Swede, to superintend 

 the fur trade at the upper end of Passayunk. 



Mrs. Papegoya is now absent from the river, but the precise 

 time she left, is not mentioned. Israel [Helm,] who appears to 

 have accompanied this lady to Sweden, returned early in Decem- 

 ber with D'Hinoyosa and Peter Alrichs, who had been on a visit 

 to Fatherland. A formal transfer of the whole river was imme- 

 diately made by Stuyvesant to D'Hinoyosa, who received it on 

 behalf of the Burgomasters of the city of Amsterdam.^ The 

 Burgomasters did not, however, accept of this enlargement of 

 their American possessions, without apprehension that the whole 

 might not soon be rescued from them ; but they did not discern 

 the real source of danger. News of the fitting out of a secret 

 expedition in Sweden,* had reached Governor Stuyvesant, and 

 could not have been unknown in Holland. A demand was also 

 formally made by the resident Swedish minister at the Hague, 

 for a restoration of New Sweden to the Swedish Company,'^ which 

 clearly shoAvs the real object of the expedition. But a series of 

 maritime disasters that befell the ships composing the expedition, 



1 N. Y Col. Doc. ii. 21.S-214. The valleys here mentioned are the rich alluvial flats 

 along the Delaware which were then overflowed at high tide, and which now consti- 

 tute the embanked marsh lands along the river and some of its tributaries. The Dutch 

 being perfectly familiar with the art of reclaiming overflowed grounds in Fatherland, 

 it was to them and not to the Swedes, that we are indebted lor introduction of the 

 plan of reclaiming these lands on the Delaware. 



* Haz. Ann. 345 ; Albany Rec. iv. 415. 



3 Haz. Ann. 355 : Albany Rec. .Nxi. 445. ♦ N. Y. Col. Doc. ii. 230. 



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