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Title: 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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Amandus, 1877-1974
Subjects: Swedes
Publisher: (Philadelphia) University of Pennsylvania
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ent to Paris and pre-sented his plans there; then he made proposals for the foundingof a New South Company in Holland in combination withSweden and finally he came forth with a project for a GeneralCotnmercial Company, which should include nearly all Euro-pean countries, approaching the English and French ambas-sadors on the subject and presenting new memorials and papers.^He was engaged in a futile cause, however, and his manyschemes mainly tended to fill the city archives of Europe withshort memorials and arguments, and to keep the Idea ofSwedish trade and colonization before the mind of Oxen-stierna. In the meantime other proposals were presented to the chancellor, which led to more definite results, and we arenow ready to trace the development of the activities that led to the founding of New Sweden on the Delaware. Copies of Mss. in Penn. Hist. So.; Jameson, Usselinx, p. 182 ff.; Odhncr,Sv. in. hist., pp. 299-300 (transl. in Penn. Mag., VH. 268 ff.)- BOOK II.% Qlolang, 1635-1043. f
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PART I.ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE, 1635-1642. CHAPTER XL Samuel Blommaert and the Copper Trade to theWest Indies. The South Company, founded through the efforts of Usse-linx for the purpose of making settlements in the New Worldand conducting extensive commercial enterprises, was turnedaway from Its original purpose and failed, and the other pro-jects that occupied his energies for years had even less success.As time went on, however, the Idea of Usselinx assumed shapethrough a different channel and finally materialized, but on asmaller scale. It was the commercial ambition of Swedish statesmen andtheir endeavors to interest Dutch merchants In the copper tradethat led to the founding of New Sweden. Copper mining wasone of the most Important industries in Sweden during the firsthalf of the seventeenth century and the copper trade was ofgreat significance and a source of large income to the Swedishgovernment. The Crown borrowed millions with copper assecurity and many of its debts to Dutch me

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