94 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1671. 



It will be remembei-ed that Mrs. Papegoya had sold the island 

 of Tinicum to a Mr. De La Grange. The grantee soon after died, 

 and his widow Margaret intermarried with Andrew Carr. This 

 year Governor Lovelace issued a patent confirming the whole 

 island to the said Andrew and his wife. See Appendix, note 0. 



Previous to the insurrection of the Long Finn, there had been, 

 as before stated, two murders committed on the river by the 

 Indians. As yet the murderers had not been apprehended, but 

 the Governor by his orders to Captain Carr, evinces a determina- 

 tion not to let them go unpunished. 



On the 13th of April, a pass was granted "to the Magister 

 •Jacobus Fabritius, pastor of the Lutheran confession,*-' to go to 

 New Castle, or any place on the Delaware.^ This personage, 

 who at this period, and for some years later, bore no very en- 

 viable reputation, subsequently, it will be seen, became the first 

 clergyman at Wiccaco, and by a course of good conduct gained 

 the confidence and respect of his employers. 



Early in 1671, at the suggestion of Captain Carr, several 

 orders were made by the Governor and council in respect to the 

 Delaware. No persons were to be permitted to distill liq-uor 

 without license; the number of victuallers and tapsters to be 

 ascertained — three only to be allowed in New Castle, and "some 

 few up the river," who may be licensed; constables are to be 

 appointed to keep the king's peace. As to the tenure of lands 

 on the Delaware, it was to be held " in free and common socage 

 as his Royal Highness, by his Majesty's patent, holds all his 

 territories in America, that is to say according to the custom of the 

 Manor of East Greenwich, only with this proviso, that they like- 

 wise pay, the Quit rents reserved in their several patents, as 

 acknowledgments to his Royal Highness." 



As to the mill, that Carr had represented to the council as 

 being "up Delaware river at y^ Carcoons Hooke," and which 

 " did heretofore appertain to y^ publique, and now is endeavour- 

 ed to be engrossed by some particular persons for their private 

 uses," it was ordered "that care be taken for y" letting out y^ 

 said Mill for y** best advantage to some person who will under- 

 take y*" same, and that y*' profitt thereof be reserved for y" pub- 

 lique."^ This is the old Swedes mill on Cobb's creek. 



At a council held at New York on the 25th of September, at 

 which Peter Alricks was present to give particular information 

 in respect to the two murders committed by the Indians ; as to 

 the number of Indians, &c. One proposition for having the mur- 

 derers destroyed, came from an Indian sachem. It was " to 

 cause a Kinticoif" to be held, and in the midst of their mirth, 



1 Sec. State's Office, Albany—" Court of Assizes," ii. 502. 



•^ lb. 713 to 720. 



3 Did our word " Cantico" originate with the Indians ? 



