The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . ne Hook] inclu-sive, but, since the above was somewhat remote from Chris-tina so that Rising could not superintend it daily, he requesteda grant of Timber Island with half of the land down to theSkoldpaddekill (Mudturtle Kill), the other half to be boughtby him. The donation was recommended by Johan Papegoja,Sven Skute, Johan Bockhorn, Gerit Bicker, Andries H
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . ne Hook] inclu-sive, but, since the above was somewhat remote from Chris-tina so that Rising could not superintend it daily, he requesteda grant of Timber Island with half of the land down to theSkoldpaddekill (Mudturtle Kill), the other half to be boughtby him. The donation was recommended by Johan Papegoja,Sven Skute, Johan Bockhorn, Gerit Bicker, Andries Hudde,Gregorius van Dyck and four The director did notwait for an answer from Sweden, but proceeded in Decemberto clear oft Timber Island at his own expense with the assistanceof the officers and freemen for the purpose of making a plan-tation there. Various kinds of fruit trees were also planted inthe autumn both by Rising and the The grain was thrashed in the fall and most of it was prob-ably ground at the mill as the mill-dam was repaired in August, 37,1 About 70 to 80 acres, cf. above, Chap. VI. w Risings Journal, August 25 ff. 30 Rising to Oxenstierna, July 11, , July 17, 1654. Risings Journal (Up. B.).. Ill wing and preparing the ground in the north according to Olaus Magnus (1555). D Types of manure Forks (of w 11 from Finland. (G.) Social and Economic Life. 525 making it probable that the mill was in good the end of October, when some of the most necessaryduties had been attended to, Rising went up to Naamans Kill,in company with several good men, where he found aserviceable little waterfall for a sawmill. It was thought verynecessary to build a saw-mill for the needs of the country andfor supplying the neighbors with lumber and, as saw-blades hadbeen taken over for this purpose, it would not be difficult toerect such a We have already seen that English merchants went to NewSweden to sell goods shortly after Risings arriv
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