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 . < \. The Coming of the Swedes. 185 for the sale of his goods. Shortly after his arrival he sent theship Gripen^^ to Jamestown in Virginia with instructions toexchange its cargo for tobacco. The vessel arrived there aboutthe middle of April/^ but the captain was denied the freedomof trade, since the English governor was not allowed to grantsuch Go
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 . < \. The Coming of the Swedes. 185 for the sale of his goods. Shortly after his arrival he sent theship Gripen^^ to Jamestown in Virginia with instructions toexchange its cargo for tobacco. The vessel arrived there aboutthe middle of April/^ but the captain was denied the freedomof trade, since the English governor was not allowed to grantsuch Governor Berkeley proposed, however, that theSwedish government should notify the King of England thata district had been occupied on the Delaware by the Swedes andapply for permission to trade with the Virginia colony, forhe thought that such [a request] from Her Majesty of Swedenwould not be denied by the English King.^^ The ship re-mained at Jamestown about ten days to refresh with wood andwater, after which time she returned to the Christina River,^^unloaded her cargo, and set sail again on the twentieth ofMay to prey on Spanish vessels, for the purpose of increasingthe profits of the stockholders of the New Sweden Company.^^Minuit also
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