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 . ived offers from His Majesty to enter Danishservice. But he determined to see Gothenburg and left for thatcity soon afterwards.^ The young king of Sweden through hisbrilliant campaigns against Poland, had attracted the attentionof Europe and the success of the Swedish arms in Russia hadspread his fame far and Hundreds of Hollanders hadsettled in Sweden
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 . ived offers from His Majesty to enter Danishservice. But he determined to see Gothenburg and left for thatcity soon afterwards.^ The young king of Sweden through hisbrilliant campaigns against Poland, had attracted the attentionof Europe and the success of the Swedish arms in Russia hadspread his fame far and Hundreds of Hollanders hadsettled in Sweden; many of them entered Swedish service androse to positions of distinction and honor.^ May we not there-fore suppose that Usselinx had some faint hope of finding Swe-den a more propitious place for the furtherance of his plansthan the ungrateful republic on the Zuyder Zee, and King Gus-tavus Adolphus a more ardent supporter and a more liberal Jameson, p. 83 ff. ^ For the struggle in Russia see Geijer, HI. 76 ff.; Cronholm, I. 194 ff.; andfor the Swedish-Polish campaigns, see Geijer, HI. 82 ff.; Cronholm, I. 287 Chapter I. Such men were Van Dijck, Cabeliau, Welshuisen, Blommaert, Spiring, Erickvon der Linde and others. 52 ma. fe L
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