...Swedish settlement by William Kieft, director-general of the New Netherlands, on claim of prior possession by the Dutch......May 6, 1638 Peter Minuit having been drowned in a storm at sea off the West Indies , Lieut. Peter Hollender, commissioned governor of New Sweden, arrives with new immigrants at Christiana just as the colony had resolved to break up......April 11, 1640 Dutch settlement made a few...