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 . coperwerck,elck vat van 1,000 a 1,200 pont gewicht, derwaerts gesonden worden, dat grootvertier in de coperen soude brengen . . en de croon Sweden soude, de navigatiein hun lant crygen om van trap tot trap voorder daerin te gaen en behandelende ganse cust van Aphrica, dat jaerlijcx meer dan 25,000 staven yser trect, ensouden door experientie het yser soo bequ
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 . coperwerck,elck vat van 1,000 a 1,200 pont gewicht, derwaerts gesonden worden, dat grootvertier in de coperen soude brengen . . en de croon Sweden soude, de navigatiein hun lant crygen om van trap tot trap voorder daerin te gaen en behandelende ganse cust van Aphrica, dat jaerlijcx meer dan 25,000 staven yser trect, ensouden door experientie het yser soo bequaem in Sweden maecken, dat het inplaets van Naems yser gebruyct soude connon worden. Letter to Oxenstierna,June 3, 1635. Kernkamp, Zweed. Arch., p. 72, 73, 74. ^* Letters, June 9, June 23, 1635, to A. Oxenstierna. Ox. Saml. () ; Kern-kamp, pp. 75-7. Letters to A. Oxenstierna, July 4, August 22, 1635. Ox. Saml. () ;Kernkamp, pp. 78, 81, 85. ?A««A/ri£iN ^-y *-**,:^>4.^^-v,^ /ey e^ *^2^^^v,«c»^f nVl) ?^^r**>7-^?^^ 1-/^ v*/^^;;://,. .-^^*«J.:>i *-«v^»^> yU. Last page of Blommaerts first letter to Oxenstierna, June 3, 1635. Original in (R. A.), Stockholm. CHAPTER XII. Peter Minuit and the Plans for the Founding of aNew Sweden Company. In the autumn a new element was brought Into the plans ofSwedish transatlantic trade: Peter Minuit had a meeting withBlommaert.^ Minuit had been governor of New Netherlandfor a number of years. In 1629 the directors of the DutchWest India Company voted to institute a so-called Patronat,but It soon became ver} unpopular and the right of patronagewas withdrawn in less than two years. Peter Minuit, who hadfaithfully followed the instructions of the directors, was sus-pected by the new party In power of being in too much sympathywith the Patronat idea and this led to his recall. He left NewAmsterdam in the beginning of 1632 and arrived In Hollandearly in the summer.^ He was a man of great energy and couldnot be Idle in
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