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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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. Belfry or bell tower 366 89. Per Brahe 376 90. Indian woman in costume 377 91. Copy of Governor Winthrops letter to Governor Printz. ... 396 92. Stuyvesants letter to Governor Printz, July 24, 1650 432 93. Copy of the Indian declaration, July 3, 1651 438 94. Copy of the Indian relation of July 13, 1651 440 95. Copy of the Indian certificate of July 16, 1651 441 96. First page of Printzs letter of August i, 1651 444 97. Second page of Printzs letter 445 98. Third page of Printzs letter 446 99. Fourth page of Printzs letter 447 ICK). Governor Printzs seal 450 lOi. First page of Monatgelderbuch, showing the budget of the colony, 1642 452 102. First page of Papegojas letter of May, 1648 454 103. Last page of Papegojas letter of May, 1648 455 XX List of Illustrations MAPS. Sweden, i6i 1-1655 2 Routes to and from New Sweden 86 New Sweden and neighboring districts 164 Lindestroms map of Virginia, New Sweden, New Netherlandand New England 206 BOOK I.iuring tilt ©rrupattort of tit? ^dumurt.
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PART I. POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS INSWEDEN, 1611-1660. CHAPTER I. Political History, 1611-1660. The decades preceding and following the year 1600 marka turning point in history. The Germanic peoples begin to as-sert themselves in European politics and one of the character-istics of the following centuries is the growing influence of theseraces in the history of the world, England destroyed theArmada and laid the foundation for her greatness; the Nether-lands defeated Spain, became the leading mercantile nation ofthe age and introduced a new era in painting; the Germanicnations laid the foundation for a commonwealth destined tobecome the greatest republic and to develop from variousheterogeneous elements into the most extensive homogeneoussettlement on record; the Reformation inaugurated by Ger-many was saved by Sweden, and the invention of printing, dueto Germanic genius, now attains to its full significance in thenew era of freedom of thought and of conscience. Thepr

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