William Elliot Griffis

Name: The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River
Author: William Elliot Griffis

The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

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“The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River”, published in 1909, is a work by William Elliot Griffis. It explores elements such as Delaware, Swedes and Swedish.

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ When well-loaded ships sailed home from New Sweden, some enterprising Dutchmen, who hated the close corporation in Amsterdam, united themselves in an independent enterprise, and sent over a ship with colonists, well supplied, to settle on the Delaware.
These freemen, who were opposed to patroons and manors, arrived just at the nick of time, for the Swedes had not yet been reinforced. The first glow of excitement was over, and trade was poor. Not having enough to eat, the colonists from Sweden were about to move to Manhattan rather than starve. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ Small as is the State of Delaware, it has long and honorable history. Many landings of famous men and nationalities have been made on its shores, which face the ocean and a noble bay and river. The Dutch, the Swedes, the Cavalier English, the Quakers May and Verhulsten, Peter Minuit, George Holmes, and William Penn, stepped in succession on the soil. The descendants of the original cosmopolitan population were bitterly opposed to British rule, and were ready at the Revolution to assert and maintain independence. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ Everything changed when the Dutch ship, supplies, and people arrived. The Netherlanders, in hearty coöperation with the Scandinavians, settled a few miles farther up the river. In the autumn, fresh reinforcements and provisions arrived in three ships from Sweden. Leaving to the new officers his command, Minuit left for the West Indies to develop trade. Even more hearty was the mutual agreement of Dutch and Swedes as against the Yankees, when, in 1641, a party from New Haven entered the river and settled on the Schuylkill and at Salem on the Delaware. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ Printz built a palisaded house on the Schuylkill; but the Indians, now opposed to the Swedes, helped Hudde to build “Fort” Beversvrede.
When Printz sent twenty men to destroy the Dutch stronghold, the Indians compelled them to retire. Then, to spite Hudde, Printz built a house right in front of Fort Nassau, shutting out the view of the river. Hudde was helpless. With only six men to garrison two forts, many miles apart, he could do nothing. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ In 1888 our Swedish fellow citizens in the East and West, who, especially since 1830, have enriched our national composite with their virtues, energies, and industry, celebrated the quarter millennial of the first settlement of their countrymen within the United States. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ On the first Sunday in September, after sermon and worship, the seven vessels, with seven hundred men, — probably one third of all the able-bodied males in New Netherland, — and possibly the largest host of white men yet gathered for war on American soil, moved down the bay in gala array of flags and streamers. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ Stuyvesant thereupon bought of the sachems all the land on both sides of the river to the bay, except Fort Christina, which the Indians had sold to Minuit. Despite the protests of Printz, he built Fort Casimir on the site of the present Newcastle, four miles below the Swedish Fort Christina, naming it after his former commander, the Stadtholder of Friesland, and paying the Indians for the land. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter XIV: Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware River (1909)

“ Calling to her aid Peter Minuit, she bade him go and occupy the deserted Delaware region, dispatching him late in 1637 with two ships and fifty colonists to found New Sweden.
Just when the buds were opening, Minuit arrived inside Delaware Bay, in April, 1638, and began a settlement not far from Cape Henlopen and near Lewes in Delaware. One of the first buildings erected after the fort was the Lutheran church, the first in America. Rev. Reorus Torkillas was pastor of this Christian congregation. ”

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