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 . adarrived here safely, it is likely that the colony would have been recaptured aswas feared by Stuyvesant. See Falken Exped., 1664, Skepsexp., 1664-66() ; cf. also Anrep., Attart., under Sjohjelm; Doc, II. 233, 236; XII. 445 ff.,455; The Com. Col. to Ch. Schneider, concerning the ship Folk in the Sound,September 7, 1663. 8 Trotzig to the chancellor, May 2
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 . adarrived here safely, it is likely that the colony would have been recaptured aswas feared by Stuyvesant. See Falken Exped., 1664, Skepsexp., 1664-66() ; cf. also Anrep., Attart., under Sjohjelm; Doc, II. 233, 236; XII. 445 ff.,455; The Com. Col. to Ch. Schneider, concerning the ship Folk in the Sound,September 7, 1663. 8 Trotzig to the chancellor, May 24, 1664, De la Gard. Saml. (). Aresume of this letter is found in Palmsk. Saml., 322 f., 335-6 (Up. B.). Trotzig till Kongl. Maj., January 26, and to the Riksk., February 16, () has a misprint or mistake in note 1, p. 83. The letter is notaddressed to E. Oxenstierna (who had long been dead), but to De la Gardie. 10To Appelbom, March 5, 1664, , fol. 182; Memorial for Leyonberg,April 28, 1664, , fol. 487 ( Concerning New Sweden and the Guinean case).Letters were also sent to Silfvercrona and Appelbom about the African Company,, July 20, November 19, 1664 (fol. 202, 257), April 15, 1665 (fol. 468).. Magnus Gabriel de laGardie Efforts to Regain the Colony. 651 about the Finnish families. Accordingly Trotzig went toWaterlandt,1 where the colonists were housed, to investigate inperson. He found that they were about 140 souls, old andyoung, many children, boys as well as girls, small and quitelarge, who ran about mostly naked in shirts. The children andmost of the [grown] people talk Finnish and part of the mentalk Swedish. Friends in New Sweden had written to themabout the glories of the country and one of the immigrantsshowed a letter from his brother dated in New Sweden, had made their way across Norway to Christiania, insome instances having passports (one passport being dated at Medelpad, March 5, 1664, with the Seal of the Socken upo
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