. A history of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey seen: woods filled with deer, turkeys, and partridges, andother game and vines full of grapes. Dutch Colonies on the Delaware. — The Dutch WestIndia Company, founded in 1621, was organized by a Swedenamed Wilham Ussehnx. Under its auspices a vessel wassent out to the South (Delaware) River under Captain ^ley,with instructions to build a fort for the purpose of defenseand for trading with the natives. This was done at the placewhere Gloucester, New Jersey, now stands. It was namedFort Nassau.^ ^ The site is opjiositc
. A history of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey seen: woods filled with deer, turkeys, and partridges, andother game and vines full of grapes. Dutch Colonies on the Delaware. — The Dutch WestIndia Company, founded in 1621, was organized by a Swedenamed Wilham Ussehnx. Under its auspices a vessel wassent out to the South (Delaware) River under Captain ^ley,with instructions to build a fort for the purpose of defenseand for trading with the natives. This was done at the placewhere Gloucester, New Jersey, now stands. It was namedFort Nassau.^ ^ The site is opjiositc the southern part of Phihulclphia. 6 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA A colony was started by the Dutch in 1629. ThroughPeter Minuit, Governor of Manhattan, land was boughtfrom the Indians, and in 1631 colonists to the number ofabout thirty settled near where Lewes, Delaware, now is,and called the place Swannendael. The next year, owing. Dutch Colonists and Indians to a dispute, all the settlers were killed by Indians andthe colony destroyed. Fort Nassau, which had been abandoned by the Dutch,was re-occupied by them in 1633 when they bought fromthe Indians lands on the Schuylkill River, and built a smallblock house for trading purposes. The Swedes on the Delaware. — The great Swedish hero,Gustavus Adolphus, wished Sweden to have a share incolonizing the New World, and one of the last things he didbefore the Battle of Liitzen (1632) in which he lost his life,was to sign a charter making provision for settlements. Thekings plans were carried out by Count Oxenstiern, the EARLY SETTLEMENTS Chancellor of Sweden, and near the close of 1637 two smallvessels filled with Swedish and Finnish colonists set sail forthe South or Delaware River, which was reached in 1638. Peter Minuit, who had left the Dutch, and entered theservice of the Swedes, was made leader of this was well fitted for his post on accountof his
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