. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . that I had come off with credit to myself;but this assurance did not tend to make me feel morecomfortable, because of my being uncertain as towhether or not he was a fit judge. ANCHORED OFF NEW CASTLE It was near to sunset before we were come to anchoroff New Castle, at which place our William had first ANCHORED OFF NEW CASTLE stopped when he came over in the ship Welcome, andthere took possession, with no little of odd ceremony,of the land he had bought from the Duke of was not much of interest to be seen, except thefort, for th
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . that I had come off with credit to myself;but this assurance did not tend to make me feel morecomfortable, because of my being uncertain as towhether or not he was a fit judge. ANCHORED OFF NEW CASTLE It was near to sunset before we were come to anchoroff New Castle, at which place our William had first ANCHORED OFF NEW CASTLE stopped when he came over in the ship Welcome, andthere took possession, with no little of odd ceremony,of the land he had bought from the Duke of was not much of interest to be seen, except thefort, for the settlement was as yet hardly more than i a halting place in the wilderness, even though it hadbeen called a townfor many years. While we lay atanchor, waiting forthe boats to bemade ready that thegovernor might goon shore, ThomasMasters, one ofWilliam Penns ad-visors in the Coun-cil, told me that asearly as the year1631, fifty years be-fore we had cometo America, theSwedes built a forthere, calling theplace Stockholm. The Dutch fromNew Amsterdam,. -> *>~ STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA 10 146 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA which is now New York, came over and captured theplace, when they named it Sandthock. Two years laterother Dutchmen came, and for some reason, ThomasMasters did not know what, the settlement was thencalled Nieu Amstel, and this, later, was changed to FortKasimir. Many years before we came to Philadelphia, theEnglish took possession of the place, and re-named itDelawaretown; but the Duke of York, who ownedall the land hereabout before he sold it to our WilliamPenn, made the name New Castle; and so it wasknown in 1677, when no less a party than two hundredand thirty, nearly all Friends, came from Englandwith the plan of making a town where they wouldbe safe from persecution by those who claimed tobelieve that Quakers did not worship God in a seemlymanner. But because of there being already here in NewCastle so many people of a different faith,—and ThomasMasters decl
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