New Sweden on the Delaware [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512808131

Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
1. The Swedes and the Great Gustavus
2. A Prospectus and a Ropewalk
3. Two Swedes, and Three Dutchmen
4. A Landfall and a Little Fort
5. Primeval Forests and Neolithic Men
6. Difficulties and Discouragements
7. Welcome Dutchmen and Unwelcome Englishmen
8. The Forest-Destroying Finns
9. Printz, the Big Swede
10. Printz as Empire-Builder
11. Printz as Jurist
12. Printz as Diplomat
13. Printz as a Man of Action
14. Printz and Stuyvesant
15. A Homesick Handful
16. The Katt’s Catastrophe
17. New Sweden at Its Zenith
18. The Coming of the Dutch and the Building of Casimir
19. Disappointment and Discord
20. The Character of a Governor
21. The Character of a Queen
22. The Voyage of a Plague Ship
23. An Argument and Remonstrance
24. The Sweeping of a New Broom
25. The Gathering of the Storm
26. The Taking of Trefaldighet
27. The Capture of Christina
28. The Last of the Swedish Governors
29. The Results
30. Log Cabins and Wooden Spoons
31. Preaching and Preachers
32. The Departure of the Swedes
33. The Reasons Why
Index

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47 Dutch house, 71; 100, ioj; 108; Rising, Johan, Jr., 134

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Sküte, Lieut. (continued) surrenders Casimir, 121; 134; courtmartialed, 147 Smidt, Capt. Dirck, 118, 134 South Company, organized, 11; its prospectus, 11; campaign for capital, 12; failure of, 13; merges with Ship Co., 14, 45 Spain, 9 Spiring, Peter, 16, 17, 45 States-General, charters W . I. Co., 10 Stettin, 6 Sudden, Timon, 57, 59, 75, 77 Stille, Olof, 135 Stuyvesant, Gov. Pieter, comes to Manhattan, 68; authorizes Dutch trade on River, 69; sends embassy to River, 70; sends warship, 81; leads expedition to River, 81, 82; builds Fort Casimir, 83; seizes Gyllene Haj, i n ; instructions concerning Casimir, 114; prepares war on Swedes, 116; fleet enters River, 117; demands surrender, 118; takes Casimir, 121; besieges Christina, i2j; ravages colony, 126; offers its return, 128; returns to Manhattan, 147; replies to Rising, 148 Sweden, in XVII Century, 2; commerce, 9; laws and literature, 3; wars, 3-4; enters Thirty Years' War, 4; army of, j ; military successes, 4-7; truce with Poland, 4 Swensson, Jacob, 134 Symonssen, Michel, 18 Texel, the, 18, 36

Thickpenny, John, 57 Thirty Years' War, 4 Tienhoven, Adriaen van, 79, ioj, 107

Tilly, Count, 6, 7 Timber Island, 138 Tinicum Island, jo; fort burnt, 66, 87; court at, 113 Tinnekonck (see Tinicum) Tomquncke, 41 Torkillus, Rev. Reorus, 36, 4J, 48, 54. ' 4 2

Turner, Capt. Nathaniel, 41, 60 Ulm, 7 Unalachtigo Indians, 27 Unami Indians, 27 Upland, j i , 56 Usselinx, Willem, plans West India Co., 10; his career, 9-15; interests Gustavus Adolphus, 11; organizes South Co., 12; joins New South Co., 14; final years, 14 Varcken's Kill; English colony at, 42; 49, 51, 52, 55, 58, 59, 62

Verstraten, Lieut. Dirck, 118, 125 Vliet, Capt. Cornells van, 36 Vries, Capt. David Pieterssen de, quoted, 48 Waeter, Jan Hindrickson van de, 18

Wallenstein, 6, 7 Wassenaer, quoted, 25, 27 West India Co. (Dutch), planned, 10; chartered, 10 Weymouth, 101 Wilmington, 19 Winthrop, Gov., 60, 62 Woollen, John, 57-58, 60

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