Young folks' history of the United States . onies. However, the Dutch built a fort of their own,near Christiana ; but the Swedes captured it. Thenthe Dutch company would bear it no longer; andthey ordered their governor, Peter Stuyvesant torevenge their wrongs, to drive the Swedes from theriver, or to compel their submission. So, in 1655, theDutch governor sailed up the Delaware River, tookback his own fort, and then took the Swedish Swedish Government had, by that time, grownmuch weaker in Europe, and did nothing to defend itsonly colony; and, after seventeen years of separateexiste
Young folks' history of the United States . onies. However, the Dutch built a fort of their own,near Christiana ; but the Swedes captured it. Thenthe Dutch company would bear it no longer; andthey ordered their governor, Peter Stuyvesant torevenge their wrongs, to drive the Swedes from theriver, or to compel their submission. So, in 1655, theDutch governor sailed up the Delaware River, tookback his own fort, and then took the Swedish Swedish Government had, by that time, grownmuch weaker in Europe, and did nothing to defend itsonly colony; and, after seventeen years of separateexistence. New Sweden was merged in New Nether-lands,subse- Then came the English, in 1664, and drove out the que^nthis- j)^^^^ fj.^^^ ^I^g ^^j^^lg ^f ^g^^ Netherlands; so that Delaware belonged, in turn, to three different this it was at one time a part of Pennsylvania,and then at last (1703) a separate colony; but it wasalways a small and peaceful community, being shel-tered from the Indian attacks by the other coloniesaround CHAPTER XIII. THE OLD DOMINION AND MARYLAND. The OldDocuiuiou. JohnSmith. VIRGINIA. I HAVE described the early colonies in geographicalorder, beginning with New England, because thisorder is so much easier to remember than any no colony can claim to date back so far as Vir-ginia, The Old Dominion as it is sometimes but a ruined church, at a place called James-town, now marks the spot where the first Virginiasettlement was made, in the year 1607, thirteen yearsbefore the landing of the Pilgrims at King James I. gave a charter to two companies,one of which was to settle south of a certain region,and the other north of it, leaving a vacant space be-tween them, it was the southern or Virginia companythat settled Virginia. The commander of the vessels that brought out thefirst Virginia colony was Capt. Newport; but the lead-ing person among those on board was Capt. JohnSmith, a man who had led a very strange
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