House Cf Garden 
THE COURT-HOUSE FROM THE INNYARD 
THE TOWN HALL 
should be granted to the happy inhabitants. 
The burghers, with their eyes on the troops 
and the frigate, agreed in all wisdom that the 
English rule was the best; but the head¬ 
strong Governor, Alex, de Hinijossa, con¬ 
vinced of the superiority of his own govern¬ 
ment, refused to accept the kindly advances 
of another nation. Consequently he retired 
with some soldiers to the fort. Carr, being 
no man to trifle, landed his troops and sent 
the ship down opposite the fort, which was 
now roughly dealt with from both sides. 
Damage was done, and lives were lost. This 
was the first bloodshed in all the disputes 
and conflicts of the place. The Dutch and 
Swedes had taken it one from the other with¬ 
out any killing, and now there were three 
Dutchmen dead and ten wounded. A hor¬ 
rible blot on peaceful New Castle ! But the 
Delaware, fortunately, has washed away the 
stain, leaving not a trace of the fort, dissolv¬ 
ing the very ground on which it stood. Carr 
was soon in possession, but his pretty prom¬ 
ises had been wafted away on the wind, for 
his soldiers and sailors, when they had re¬ 
duced the garrison, began plundering the 
town, helping themselves to what they liked 
and driving the luckless citizens from their 
rightful homes. All of New Amstel’s sol¬ 
diers and many of the unhappy townspeople 
were sold as slaves into Virginia. 
Thus the English provided themselves 
with homes and settled the future of the colo¬ 
nies. Eor if New Amstel, the last Dutch 
stronghold, had not been taken by them, the 
Dutch might have used this as a rallying 
place and promptly regained at least part of 
their possessions in the New World. I his 
region alone prevented the English from own¬ 
ing the territory on the Atlantic from the 
northern boundary of Maine to the southern 
boundary of Georgia. And now New Castle 
connected the vast English possessions in the 
New World. It is hard to believe, looking 
at the sleepy square and little streets of New 
Castle, that it was ever a place of such impor¬ 
tance. Until a short time ago there was a 
monument to bear witness to the town’s 
Dutch origin. The “Tile H ouse ”— so 
called because its roofing had been brought 
from Amsterdam—stood for tradition’s finger 
to point out as the one time residence of the 
stalwart de Hinijossa. 
The aspect of the town was now distinctly 
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