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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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m to come ashore at Tinicum, and im- measures ofprisoned him and two of his crew. He tried to persuade orbribe one of the sailors to accuse the captain of inciting the Indiansto attack the Swedes. When the sailor refused, Printz put him in 1 Hazard. AnnaL Penn., apud Brodhead, vol. i., p. 379. 41-2 THE SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE. (Chap. XVH. irons, and stiiuiped up and down the fort, a man very furious andpassionate, cursing and swearing, and also reviling the English of NewHaven as runagates. ^ When called upon by the New Englanders,after Lambertons release, to give satisfaction for these foul injuries and damages, he sent a letter to Massachusetts denying the wholestory. This was in the autumn of 1643. When another New Eng-land vessel (a pinnace sent out from Boston), came to the Delawarein the spring of the next year, the Swedes and the Dutch at FortNassau united in refusing to permit her to trade in the river, and senteach a boat to prevent it. The English soon learned that it was not
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Printz and the Sailor. so easy to havetheir own way onthe Delaware as ithad been on thebanks of the Connecticut.Printz nevertheless waskindly and good naturedwhen trade was not inquestion, for in October he res-cued two Boston men from theIndians, who had treacherouslyboarded an English vessel that entered the bay and killed or capturedall her crew. The rescued men he sent to New Haven. In 1645, Jan Jansen, long the commissary at the Dutch Fort Nas-sau, was peremptorily removed by Kieft, because of well-sustainedaccusations of dishonesty and incompetence, and one Andreas Huddewas appointed in his place. It is very possible that a part of Jansensneglect of duty lay in his easy submission to the Swedes; at all events,his successor seems to have understood his obligations to protect theriver-trade, as binding him to take a different course. An opportu-nity to make issue with the rival governor was not long wanting. i Wiiithrop, vol. ii., )). 130, sqq. 1G4G.) DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN DUTCH AN

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