02 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1669. 



The order issued in 1666, for repatenting lands, was renewed 

 l>y Governor Lovelace, and William Tom was appointed collector 

 of quit-rents on the Delaware. Those who had neglected to 

 take out patents, are not on that account to„be exempt from the 

 payment of these dues. 



The Swedes and Finns had conducted themselves Avith so much 

 propriety, that they had very fully secured the confidence of the 

 government. But this year an insurrection broke out, headed 

 by one Marcus Jacobson, generally known as the "Long Finn," 

 who gave out that he was "the son of Coningsmark," heretofore 

 one of the king of Sweden's gene/als. He had for a confederate, 

 one Henry Coleman, also a Finn, and a man of property. Cole- 

 man had " left his habitation, cattle and corn" to reside among 

 the Indians, with whose language he was well versed, where also 

 the Long Finn generally kept. No treasonable acts are charged 

 against these confederates except "raising speeches, very sedi- 

 tious and false, tending to the disturbance of his Majesty's 

 peace and the laws of the government." 



On the 2nd of August, Governor Lovelace issued a proclama- 

 tion* for the arrest of the parties, with an order to confiscate the 

 property of Coleman, in case he did not surrender himself in 

 fifteen days. The principal in the insurrection was soon arrest- 

 ed, and upon information of that fact being communicated to the 

 governor and council, they expressed their great satisfaction on 

 account "of the prudence and careful management" of the oflS- 

 cers on the Delaware, " in circumventing and securing the prime 

 mover of this commotion."^ 



Jeuffro Papegay, Armgart Printz, was somewhat implicated, 

 " though what she had done was not of any dangerous conse- 

 quence, yet it was a demonstration of her inclination and temper 

 to advance a strange power, and a manifestation of her high in- 

 gratitude for all those indulgences and favors she hath received 

 from those in authority over her."^ 



The Governor also perceived from the papers sent to him that 

 " the little domine'^ hath played the trumpeter in this disorder." 

 The quality of his punishment was referred to the discretion of 

 Captain Carr. 



The instructions to Captain Carr were " to continue the Long 

 Finn in custody and irons, until he can have his trial;" the ap- 

 pearance of " those of the first magnitude concerned with him 

 was to be secured by imprisonment or by taking security ;" but 



J Sec. State's Office, Albany— " Orders, Warrants," Ac, ii. 2f)fi ,• Ilaz. Ann. 375. 



2 Sec. State's Office, Albany — " Council Book," iii. 13. 



» Haz. Ann. 377 ; Albany Roe. " Orders," &e., ii. 271. 



* Mr. Hazard suposes the "Little Domine" here mentioned to have been the Rev. 

 Mr. Fabricius. Thi.s gentleman wns not then on the Delaware. The reference must 

 have been to the Rev. Mr. Lawrence Carolus, or Mr, Lock as he is frequently called, 

 who probably was a Finn. 



