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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Sweden, founding of (search)
heir forces were still too weak, they always kept one or another of their people upon the east side of the river to watch those who might visit the country. As soon, therefore, as Menuet landed with his Swedish company, notice of the fact was given to the Director-General of the Hollanders in New Amsterdam. He waited for some time, until he could ascertain Menuet's purpose; but, when it appeared that he was erecting a fortress for the Swedes, he sent him the following protest: Thursday, May 6, 1638. I, William Kieft, Director-General of the New Netherlands, residing upon the island of Manhattan, in the Fort Amsterdam, under the government belonging to the High and Mighty States-General of the United Netherlands, and the West India Company, chartered by the Council Chamber in Amsterdam, make known to you, Peter Menuet, who style yourself Cornmander in the service of her Royal Majesty, the Queen of Sweden, that the whole South River of the New Netherlands, both above and bel
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
ey locate at Christiana, within the present limits of Wilmington, build a fort and erect a church within its walls, and name the territory New Sweden ......March, 1638 Minuit buys from five chiefs the Minquas territory on west side of the Delaware, from Bombay Hook to the river Schuylkill, with no western boundary specified......March 29, 1638 Protest against 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 miles from Christiana under a hereditary fief grant from the crown of Sweden......Nov. 2, 1640 Johan Printz, a Swede, appointed governor of New Sweden, arrives at Christiana with two vessels of war......Feb. 15, 1643