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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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,1640; Huygen to P. Spiring (copy), November 28, 1642 (i), N.S., I. (R.A.).Cf. above. Chaps. XV., XVIII. * Cf. below, Chap. XXIV. Only a few loose sheets are preserved of anaccount book, which dates from 1638-1639, N.S., II. (R.A.). In a Schuldt Boeckwhich really covers the years 1643-1648, there are also a number of accounts inHuygens handwriting from i638-i639. The book begins in 1638, the lastaccount for 1639 is in April, then follow some blank pages. It is again begunby Huygen in 1643 and continued until May 6, 1648. It was sent to Swedenon the Sivan and presented to the bookkeeper of the company at Stockholm onJune 30, the same year. It is now preserved in the R.A. in N.S., II. Thebook is defective, the left hand corners of the pages being moulded away andother parts unreadable. It is written in Dutch. Ohdner says that the accountsare of the simplest kind and give no information of value, but the bookcontains several facts not found elsewhere and many interesting details concern-
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Windmill near SUickholm in the seventeenth century. From Sinia Aitliqiia. (See also p. 328.) The Colony Under Ridder. 205 The facts about the religious life are very meager before1643. ^^v. Reorus Torkillus,- who arrived with Ridder in1640, conducted services in the fort, at times prescribed by theSwedish church law. He was abused by some of the Dutch,who were of the Reformed faith, and in his letters to the councilhe complained of his troubles with those who confessed theCalvanistic heresy, but harmony seems to have been restoredafter Langdonks return to Europe. In November, 1641,Rev. Christopher arrived in the colony. He was not given acommission to serve here when he left Sweden, but it seems thatTorkillus was unable to perform all the ministerial duties andChristopher remained here until 1643, doing the duties of aclergyman, and when he returned to Sweden he was paid byBeier for his labors.^^ It is probable that Torkillus was sta-tioned in the fort and that he conducted services t

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