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Northern Lights 
On Governor Printz *s Doorstep 
On May 25, representatives of fifteen 
American societies, guests of the Genealogical 
Society of Pennsylvania and the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Society of Colonial Dames, gathered on 
the lawn and broad porches of the Corinthian 
Yacht Club on Tinicum Island, near Phila¬ 
delphia, to honor the memory of Governor 
Johan Printz and the Swedish Colony which 
Gustavus Adolphus had once thought of as 
“the jew r el of his kingdom.” For the first 
time in two hundred and fifty years the 
Swedish flag and Swedish song floated to¬ 
gether over the Delaware, but the smoking 
steamers going out to sea were not now halted 
by a tribute-levying shot across the bows from 
the cannon of Governor Printz. 
Hampton L. Carson, President of the His¬ 
torical Society of Pennsylvania and former 
Attorney-General of the State, vividly retold 
the story of the Swedish colony on the Dela¬ 
ware from the landing of the first expedition 
in 1638 on their own Plymouth Rock, an 
abrupt ledge still to be seen at Wilmington, 
until after twenty years of struggle Peter 
Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands, 
overpowered the Swedes under the young suc¬ 
cessor to Governor Printz. It was on the 
present site of the Corinthian Yacht Club 
that Governor Printz built his mansion, and 
the fort, called New Gothenburg, is believed 
to have been on the shore some two hundred 
yards to the west of the Club house. Gov- 1 
ernor Printz was the first American yachts¬ 
man, and his yacht was the ancestor of the 
score or more of delicate and sturdy yachts 
that lie anchored off Tinicum Island. 
Captain Axel F. Wallenberg, Minister from 
Sweden, spoke for the homeland of the Dela¬ 
ware Swedes, and explained how the history 
of the colony fitted into that of Gustavus 
Adolphus and the Thirty Years War, the 
reign of Queen Christina, and the wars 
against Russia and Poland ending in the 
brilliant but costly career of Charles XII. 
He told with dramatic effect how he had seen 
this soldier King “face to face” w r hen his 
sarcophagus was opened a few years since, 
and instinctively had stood at attention for 
his command. 
Addresses were also delivered by Thomas 
Willing Black, Vice-president of the Swedish 
Colonial Society, and Dr. Thomas Lynch 
Montgomery of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. Balch is author of The 
