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''the poor deluded sort," were to be subjected to a method for 

 keeping them in order which the Governor is pleased to say was 

 prescribed by their own countrymen, and which is, " severity, 

 and laying such taxes on them as may not give them liberty to 

 entertain any other thoughts but how to discharge them."' 



In the commission for the trial of the insurgents on the Dela- 

 ware, the names of the judges are omitted in the record." The 

 sentence was passed by the council at New York on the Long 

 Finn, or that passed by the commission on the Delaware was 

 confirmed. He was deemed worthy of death, but, " in regard 

 that many others being concerned with him in the insurrection, 

 might be"* involved in the same premunire," amongst them 

 " divers simple and ignorant people," the said Long Finn M'as 

 sentenced "to be publicly and severely whij)i)"ed and stigmatized 

 or branded in the face with the letter (11.) with an inscription 

 written in great letters and put upon his breast, that he received 

 that punishment for attempting rebellion." After undergoing 

 this sentence the culprit was to be sent to " Barbadoes and some 

 other of those remote plantations and sold." In compliance with 

 the latter part of his sentence, he was put on board of Mr. 

 Cossen's ship Fort Albany, bound for Barbadoes, in January, 

 1669-70, where, no doubt, he was sold into slavery.^ What be- 

 came of Coleman is not certainly known. He probably remained 

 among the indians for some years, when his oflFence was over- 

 looked by the government.^ 



So few of the names of those implicated in the insurrection 

 are given, that it is diflScult to fix on the particular district of 

 country that was its principal seat. The leader was a F'inn ; 

 the '"'Little Domine" was a Finn, and as the Swedes and Finns 

 did not understand each other's language well, it is probable that 

 the hot bed of the conspiracy was in the district of country 

 chiefly settled by Finns below Upland. This supposition is 

 strengthened by the fact that Mrs. Papegoya was implicated ; 

 for though not a Finn, she doubtless then resided on her estate 

 of Frintzdorp in the vicinity of the Finnish settlement; she 

 not being in possession of Tinicum at this time.^ 



1 Mr. Bancroft gives to this order a general application. It evidently had reference 

 only to the more ignorant and deluded of those who joined in the conspiracy. See 

 Hist. U. S. ii. 321. 



2 Sec. State's Office, Albany—'' Court of Assizes," ii. 437. 



* Sec. States Office, Albany — " Court of Assizes," ii. 464; " Council Book," iii. 14. 



* In 1076, by virtue of a warrant from Governor Andros, one hundred acres of land 

 in the south part of Darby township was surveyed to Heniin'ck Coleman and Peter 

 PuUen. Coleman was probably the same person. See " Delaware Lands," Sec. State's 

 Office. Albany. Henry Coleman conveyed his share of the same land in 1696. See 

 Recorder's Office, Chester Co. Book A. 



* The object and expectations of the conspirators are not well understood. Secretary 

 Matthias NicoUs, sent by Col. Niculls " to make inquiry into the matter," says, " they 

 pretended an e.vpectation of some Swedish ships to come and reduce the place," N. Y. 

 Col. Doc. iii. 186. 



