Identifier: historyofdelaw00smit (find matches)
Title: History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limits to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware county institute of science, Media, Pa
Subjects: National history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed by H. B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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1648. Both documents were got upwhen spirited controversies existed between the Swedes andDutch, and may be safsly 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 different 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 i N Y. Col. Doc. i. 588. 2 Armenveruis, on the Dutch map, is located on the Jersey side of the river, nearFort Nassau. s N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 593. 4 lb. 598. This purchase of land on the Schuylkill by Corsen, is referred to inHuddes Keport. He gives the date of the transaction confirming the purchases, asJune 10th, 1648. vi Part ofRvaaevcen,.? .Hop of New JVetherl/irvcb, Jl msterdam* I6T6.
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Bowm A Co >ith. PkOada 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, ($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 effect. 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 H

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