Identifier: historyofdelawar02smit (find matches)
Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed by H.B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ives us to understand that thetransaction occurred in 1648. Both documents were got upwhen spirited controversies existed between the Swedes andDutch, and may be safaly regarded as attempts to patch up anIndian title to lands by the latter, that would ante date anyclaim set up by the Swedes. The extreme jealousy of the West India Company, lest anyone should share with them, in the smallest degree, the trade ofNew Netherland, led to fierce disputes with patroons still residingin Holland. The difierent interpretations put on the charter ofthe company, and on the privileges granted by them to thepatroons, were well calculated to widen the breach between the 1 N.Y. Col. Doc. i.588. 2 Armenveruis, on the Dutch map, is located on the Jersey side of the river, nearFort Nassau. 3 N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 693. * lb. 598. This purchase of land on the Schuylkill by Corsen, is referred to inHuddes Heport. He gives the date of the transaction confirming the purchases, asJune 10th, 1648. (/ ^r <^ •A
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1635.) HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 19 parties. With the view of terminating these unpleasant quarrels,and it may have been partly on political considerations, theDirectors of the company were authorized by the Assembly ofXIX of the States General, to repurchase patroonships. Under this authority, the patroon owners of Swanendael onthe 7th of February, 1635, retransferred all their right, title andinterest in their lands on both sides of the bay, to the WestIndia Company for the sum of 15,600 guilders, (f 6,240.) Allcharters, maps and papers concerning the aforesaid colonies,were to be delivered over to the purchasers. This transactionwas well calculated to put an end to private enterprise on theDelaware river on Dutch account, and probably had that eifect. The British government never having recognized the claims ofthe Dutch to any part of North America, a party from theEnglish colony on the Connecticut river, consisting of GeorgeHolmes, his hired man Thomas Hall, and about a dozen ot

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