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CONTENTS.
Introductory part : from the earliest settlements made in Penn- sylvania, to the first settlements made within the present limits of Lancaster county.
CHAPTER I.
Colinization, remarks on, p. 13; Purchases made from the Indians, 14; In New England, 15; By Calvert, 15; By Roger Williams, 15; By the Swedes, 15; By Carteret, 16; Penn follows their example, 16; Early set- tlement of Delaware bay and river, 17; Swedes supplanted by the Dutch, 18; Dutch triumph short, 18; Delaware taken possession of by the Eng- lish, 18; Penn purchases New Castle, 18.
CHAPTER II.
William Penn born, p. 19; How he was made acquainted with America, 20; Instrumental in settling West New Jersey, 20; Obtains a charter for Pennsylvania, 21; First purchasers embark for America, 22; Markham's instruction, 22; He holds a treaty with the Indians, 22; Penn arrives in America, 23; Convenes an Assembly at Upland, 23; Interview with Lord Baltimore, 23; Religious visits, 23; Visits New Jersey, the Duke of York, his friends on Long Island : returns to Philadelphia, holds his grand treaty with the Indians, 24-26; More arrivals from Europe, 26; Emigrants pro- vide shelters, 27; Form plantations, 27; Philadelphia laid out, 28; Coun- ties organized, 28; Second Assembly convoked, 28; Penn obliged to return to Europe, 29.
CHAPTER III.
Brief sketch of the History of Pennsylvania from 1684 to 1699, p. 30- 37; Provincial executives from 1684 to 1699, 31; Boundaries of Chester county determined, 34; Increase of population, 34; First mills in Chester
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county, 34; Penn's effort to improve the condition of the natives, 35; Efforts to christianize the Indians, 35; Penn's new treaty with the Susque- hanna, Shawanese and Ganawese, &c. natives, 36; A new form of Govern- ment framed, 37; Penn appoints Andrew Hamilton deputy governor : sails for England, 37.
CHAPTER IV.
Prince William dies, p. 38; Anne aseends the throne, 38; Penn in favor with her, 38; State of affairs in the province, 39; Disquiet among the Indi- ans, 39; Messenger sent to the Conestogo Indians : Secretary of the council and sheriff of Chester and New Castle are sent to them, 40; Thomas Chalkley preaches at Conestogo, 41; Governor visits the Conestogo Indi- ans, 44 ; Indian eloquence, 44; Gov. Evans' strange character, and second journey to Susquehanna, 45; Governor's journal of his interview with the Indians, 46; Nicole apprehended at Paxtan, conveyed to Philadelphia and imprisoned, 51.
CHAPTER V.
Cause of disquietude among the Indians, p. 53; Indians at Conestogo send a messenger to the council, 53; Mitchell and other Europeans intrude upon the Indiaus, 54; Governor Evan.' explanation of Mitchell's course, 55; Critical juneture, 55; Evans re-ealled, 56; Gookin appointed governor, 56; Penn's embarrassment, 56; Quitrents, 56; Emigration impeded, 57; Gookin sends a message to the Indians at Conestogo, 57; Swedish mission- ary at Conestogo, 59; His sermen and Indian chief's answer, 59-60; French and Worley on a message to Conestoge.
SECOND PART.
From the earliest settlements made within the present limits of the county to its organization in the year 1729.
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary remarks, p. 67; Unsettled state of affairs in Europe, 68; Consequent emigration of Swiss, Germans, French and others, into America 70; Into Pennsylvania, 72; Swiss Mennonites settle in Pequea Valley, 74; Purchase ten thousand aeres of land, 76; Make improvements, 78, Others purchase lands, 79; The Mennonites call a meeting to send a person to Europe for the residue of their families, 80; Kendig gecs and returns with a
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number of families, 81; Settlements augmented, 82; Governor Gookin's journey to Conestogo, 86.
CHAPTER II.
Ferree family make preparations to emigrate to America, 90; Procure certificates of civil and religious standing, 92; By way of Holland and England come to New York, 96; Acquire the rights of citizenship, 96; Settle in Lancaster county, 101; Several documents of interest, 103; Tra- dition of the ancestors of the Ferrees, by Joel Lightner, Esq., 108; Tusca- rora Indians winter with the Five Nations, 113.
CHAPTER III.
Augmentation of settlements, p. 115; Germans and English settle around the Swiss or Palatines, 117; Settlements in different parts of the county, 120; Names of persons naturalized, 123; Notice of Slaymakers, 127; Conestoga Manor surveyed, 129; Names of first purchasers, 131; Graffchal settled, 133; Lancaster and vicinity settled, 135; Squatters on the west side of Sus- quehanna, 136 ; Indians at Conestoga address a letter to Logan, 136 ; Col. French goes to Conestoga : holds a treaty with the Indians, 137; Logan meets them on the Susquehanna, 141; Samuel Robins sent to Virginia, 153.
CHAPTER IV.
Governor Keith visits the governor of Virginia, p. 154; Holds a council with the Indians at Conestogo 155 ; Indians complain of the use of rum, &c. 158; Their trade in pelts impaired, 160 ; Secretary Logan holds a discourse with Ghesaont, 169; Ghesaont's reply, &c. 170; Disturbances created by intruders under pretence of finding copper mines, &c. 175; Governor Keith has a survey made on the west side of Susquehanna. 176; Indians alarmed by Maryland intruders, 176; Logan, French and sheriff of the county hold a council at Conestogo, 177;, Keith determines to resist attempted encroach- ments by the Marylanders, 178; A council is held at Conestogo, 179; Springetsbury manor surveyed, 182; Council held at Conoytown, 182; Settlement of Germans at Swatara and Tulpehocken, 182.
CHAPTER V.
Donegal township organized, p. 135; First settlers, 185; Harris attempted to settle at Conoy, 185; Settles at Paxton, 186; Settlement commenced by Barber, Wright and Blunston, 187; Settlements back from the river, 189; Reamstown settlement, 190; Welsh settlement, 191; Weber's Thal settle- ment, 192 ; Settlement at Saeue Schwamm, or New Holland, 193; Germans misrepresented, 194; Committee appointed to inquire into the facts: makes
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roport, 196; Thomas Wright killed by the Indians, 197; Inhabitants of the upper part of Chester county alarmed, 198; Governor Gordon goes to Con- estogo and holds a treaty with the Indians, 199; Returns to Philadelphia : Note : Iron works, 206; David Dieffenderfer, brief notice of, 207.
CHAPTER VI. .
Ephrata, p. 211 ; Origin of German Baptists in Europe, and their emi- gration to America, 212; Sieben Taeger Association formed at Ephrata by Conrad Beissel, 215; Change of life among them, 216; They built Kedar and Zion, 217; Singular architecture of buildings, 218; Fractur: Schriften by the Sisters, 219; Specimens of original poetry, 220; Eckerlein and the bell, 222; Its destination, 223; Sabbath school established, 224; Miller succeeds Beissel, 225; Juliana Penn's letter, 229; Poetry dedicated to Miller, 230; Present state of Ephrata, 232; List of names of the first inhabitants of Ephrata, 232; Names of some of the early settlers in Lancas- ter county, 233.
THIRD PART.
From the organization of Lancaster county, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine.
CHAPTER I.
Erection and organization of the county, p. 235; Boundaries of, 239; Seat of Justice, 242 ; James Annesly, 243 ; Boundaries of townships, 244 ; First court held at Postlewhaites, 250; Extracts of court records, 250; Morris Cannady indicted, 250; Found guilty and sold, 252; Constables, overseers and supervisors appointed, 252; Applicants to be Indian traders, 253; Petitions for license to sell rum, 254; First court held at Lancaster, 855; Conrad Weiser, notice of, 256; Notes, &c. 260.
CHAPTER IY.
Road from Lancaster to Philadelphia ordered to be laid out, &c. p. 262; Election excitement, or violent contest, 264; Border frays, 265; Townships erected, 266; Pennsborough and Hopewell, west of the Susquehanna, 266; Hanover, 267; Little Britain, 367; James Ewing born, 567; Contest between the Marylanders and inhabitants of Lancaster, 268; Cressap and his associates attempt to displace the Germans, 269; Is apprehended and imprisoned, 269; Governor Ogle sends messengers to Philadelphia, 269;
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German settlers seized and carried to Baltimore, 269; The council sends an embassy to Governor Ogle, 270 ; Marylanders break into Lancaster jail, 270 ; Germans naturalized, 271 ; Notes of variety, 272.
CHAPTER III.
Governor Thomas appointed, p. 274; The county divided into eiglit districts, 274; Several new townships formed, 275; John Wright's charge to the grand jury, 276; Brief memoir of Wright, 281; Serjeant attempts to instruct the Indians, 282; Omish apply to the Assembly for an act of na- turalization, 282; Count Zinzendorf in Lancaster, 283; Visits Wyoming, 284 ; Indians conclude to massacre him, 284 ; Singular incident dissuades them, 285; Attempts made to prejudice the Assembly against the Germans, 286; Martin Meylin's house built, 286; Church council convokcd, 287; Irish behavoir or conduct at an election, 288; Disputes between Irish and Germans, 288 ; Murhancellin murders Armstrong and his two servants, 289; Murhancellin arrested and imprisoned, 289; Indian treaty held in Lancas- ter, 289 ; Indians peel Musser's walnut trees, 290; Lutheran excitement in Lancaster, 291; Lindley Murray born, 291 ; Notes of variety, 292.
CHAPTER IV.
York county organized, p. 293; Election frauds, 294; Sabbath school commenced at Ephrata, 294; David Ramsay born : memoir of, 295; Bart township organized, 297; House of employment provided, 298; General Clark, 299; Abundant crops, 299; Distilleries erected, 299 ; Partial famine, 300; Indian alarms and horrid atrocities, 300; French neutrals imported, 301; Their condition unenviable, 302; An Act to disperse them, 208; Cooper, Webb and Le Fevre appointed to execute the several provisions of the act, 303; Another Act passed relative to the French neutrals, 304; Notes of variety, 306.
CHAPTER V.
Moravian community at Litiz, p. 308 ; Zinzendorf in Lancaster, 309; Ap- plication to the conference at Bethlehem, 310; Commencement of Litiz, 311 ; Parsonage built, 311; School-house removed ; Rev. B. A. Grube, 312; Present condition or state of Litiz : Improvements : Church and consecra- tion of it, &c. 313; List of the names of pastors, 315; Schools and names of teachers, 317; Brother and sister houses, 320; The grave yard, 324; The spring, 328; Population, mechanics, &c. 329.
CHAPTER VI.
Hostilities between the English and the French in America, p. 332 ; Dela- ware and Shawanese Indians commit murders, 333; General Braddocks's
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arrival, 333; Braddock's defeat, 334; Dismay caused among the frontier settlers, 334; Paxton and Tulpehocken refugees at Ephrata, 335; Murders committed by the Indians, 335; Block-house erected at Lancaster, 336 ; In- habitants of Lancaster county petition the Assembly for a militia law, 337 ; Scalping parties, 338; War suspended against the Indians, 338; Prepera_ tions made to repel Indian incursions, 339; Conrad Weiser commands nino companies, 339 ; French hostilities continued, 340; Murders committed by the Indians in 1757, 339 ; Indian treaties, at Lancaster and at Easton, 340 ; Minutes extract from, of Indian treaty, at Lancaster. 340; King Beaver's speech, 342; Treaty held at Easton : fifteen tribes of Indians represented; Murders by Indians in Tulpehocken, 343; Murders committed by the In- dians in 1758, 344; Cumberland over-run by savages, 344 ; Inhabitants fled to Lancaster, &c., 345; Barracks erected at Lancaster, 346; Work-house erected at Lancaster, 346; The Irish sell to the Germans, and seat them- selves at Chestnut Glade, 347; Baron Stiegel lays out Manheimn, 347; No- tice of the Baron, 348; Notes of variety ; Emanuel Carpenter, 394.
CHAPTER VII.
Tendency of war, p. 350; Hostilities continued, 351; Lancaster county exposed to Indian incursions, 352; Treachery of the Conestoga Indians, 352; Paxton and Donegal Rangers watch the Indians closely, 359 ; Indian villagers massacred, 356; Those abroad taken under protection by the mag- istrates of Lancaster, 356 ; Governor Penn's proclamation, 357; The Pax- ten boys at Lancaster : massacre the Indians, 358 ; Governor Penn issues another proclamation, 360; The Paxton boys grow desperate, and " show up some Indian," 362; Resort to Philadelphia, 363; Their non-commenda- ble conduct there, 363 ; They return peaceably to their homes, leaving two of their number to present their grievances to the Assembly, 365; Robert Fulton, 366 ; B. S. Barton, 367; Notes of variety.
CHAPTER VIII.
Hail storm, p. 369; Proceedings, &c. by the citizens of Lancaster county touching the usurpation of Parliament, in 'Great Britain, 371 ; Letter from the committee of correspondence at Philadelphia, 372 ; Meeting at the court house in Lancaster, 373 ; Copy of a circular letter from Philadelphia, 376 ; Meeting called at Lancaster, 378 ; Subscriptions opened for the relief of the suffering Bostonians, 380; Letters from Philadelphia, 382 ; Meeting called, to be held at Lancaster, 383; Committee appointed, 384; Meeting held, 385 ; Letter from Reading, 387; Meeting of the committee of inspection, &c., 388; Committee men from different townships meet at Lancaster, 395; Their proceedings, &c. &c. 395.
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CHAPTER IX.
Course of the mother country objectionable, p. 404; Military convention at Lancaster, 405 ; Daniel Roberdeun and James Ewing elected Brigadier Generals, 407; Resolutions passed and adopted, 407; Committee of safety : convention to form the first State Constitution, 408; Pennsylvania and Lan- caster county active, 409; Numerous incidents, &c. in Lancaster county during the Revolution, 410 ; General Wayne's head quarters and correspon- dence with his Excellency, Thomas Wharton, President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 411; Congress repairs from Philadelphia to Lan- caster, thence to York, 420; Military meeting at Manheim, 421; Surviving Revolutionary soldiers : Philip Meck, 323; John Ganter, 424; George Leonard, Peter Mauerer, Peter Shindle, Jacob Hoover, 425; Notes, 426.
CHAPTER X.
Lancaster county after the Revolution, 427; Germans and those of Ger- man extraction : views on education, 427; Franklin college established, 428; First board of Trustees, 428 ; Reichenbach : New Jerusalem Church ; the twelve articles received by that church, 429; Improvements great in the county, 433; Columbia laid out, 433 ; Lancaster city, seat of government 434; Late war: means of Lancaster county, 434; Notes of variety, 435.
CHAPTER XI.
EDUCATION :- Preliminary remarks: Importance of general education, p. 436; Views of colonists, 437; Mennonites' views of education, 438; Scotch and Irish settlers, made at first little preparation, &c. till 1798, 439; First schools in the town of Lancaster, 440 ; Lutheran and German Reformed churches have schools under their auspices, 440; Rev. M. Schlatter. indefat- igable in his efforts to establish schools, 443; Extract from Coetuale pro- ceedings of 1760, 442 ; Trustees and managers of public schools, 443; Germans patriotic, modest and unassuming, &c. 443; Ludwig Hacker es- tablishes a Sabbath school at Ephrata, 444; German classical school at Ephrata, 445 ; Academy at Ephrata, 445; Academy at Litiz, &c. 445, 446 ; Select Academy at Lancaster, 446; Franklin college, &c. 447; Private schools and Academies in various parts of the county, 448 ; An act for the education of children in the borough of Lancaster, 448; The Mechanics' Society, 450 ; Classical Academy : Lancaster County Academy : Classical Academies in the county, 451, 453 ; Seminaries : Common Schools : Sab- bath Schools Lyceums, &c. 453.
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RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS .- Early missionaries among the Conestoga and other Indians, p. 455; The Mennonites, 356; The Friends and Qua-
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kers, 457; The Omish or Amish, 457; The Episcopalians, 457; The Pres- byterians, 457; The German Baptists, 458; The German Seventh Day Baptists, 458; The Lutherans, 458 ; The German Reformed, 459; The United Brethren or Moravians, 461; The Roman Catholics, 461; The Methodist Episcopal, 461 ; The New Jerusalem Church, 462 ; The Evan- gelical Association, 462; The Reformed Mennonites, 462 ; The Universal- ists ; The Seceders; The United Brethren; The Church of God; The Calvanistic Baptists, 463; The Mormons, " Millerites" and African Churches, 464.
CHAPTER XIII.
Geology of Lancaster County, p. 465; Natural History, 467; Mamma- lia, 470 ; Reptilia, 471; Ophidia, 471 ; Sauria, 472 ; Amphibia, 472; Pis- ces, 472 ; Coleoptera, 474; Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Hymenop- tera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, 478 ; Mollusca, 479 ; Helicidae, 481 ; Unionidae, 482.
CHAPTER XIV,
Catalogue of the Filicoid and Flowering Plants of Lancaster county, 483. LIST of Birds, by Libhart, 508.
APPENDIX .- A. The Maryland and Pennsylvania boundary line. B. James Le Tort. C. The Huguenots. .
HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.
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INTRODUCTORY PART:
FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA, TO THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS MADE WITHIN THE PRESENT LIMITS OF LANCASTER COUNTY.
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CHAPTER I.
Colonization, remarks on-Purchases made from the Aborigines-In New England-By Calvert-By Roger Williams-By the Swedes-By Car- teret-Penn follows their example-Early settlements on Delaware bay and river-Swedes supplanted by the Dutch-Dutch triumph short- Delaware taken possession of by the English-Penn purchases New Castle.
FROM History it is evident that the formation of Colo- nies, which is among the oldest occurrences recorded, or handed down by tradition, was owing to various causes, and different circumstances. Perhaps the avaricious desire of man as an individual to increase his possessions, and collectively as a nation to enlarge his domains, by extending the boundaries of empire, and to secure a country acquired by the right of discovery, taken by conquest, or otherwise obtained, is a leading, among many causes, of colonization.
Colonies have been the consequences from emigration, and which was either owing to a great increase of popu- lation at home, in a limited territory; or, produced by civil, as well as religious oppression. Phonecia and
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Greece, maratime states, possessing as they did, a limited territory, would naturally have to resort to emigration .- Commercial enterprize led as much to colonization as any one single cause.
Many of the Colonies of North America were the consequences of emigration, either voluntary, or produced by religious persecution, in the Fatherland, where many an aching heart yearned after a place of peace and repose, where in obedience to the dictates of a quickened conscience, strains of worship, praises of the Almighty, might be poured forth unmolestedly.
The Colonies established by the Carthagenians, were made through conquest and for the purpose of keeping the country in subjection. The policy of the Romans was, in the earliest ages of the republic, of sending out colonies to the conquered nations, to enforce the authority of the mother country upon the vanquished people .- Their colonies, in this respect, differed essentially from many others; and have very appropriately been called Die Roemische Besatzungen, the outposts of Rome .-- The Venetian system of colonies in Candia and Cyprus, resembled that of Rome. The limits of this chapter will not permit enlargement.
A principle had obtained in Europe, that a new dis- covered country belonged to the nation, whose people first discovered it. Eugene IV. and Alexander VI. suc- cessively granted to Portugal and Spain all the countries possessed by infidels, which should be occupied by the industry of their subjects, and subdued by the force of their arms. The colonies, established in North America, were founded upon more equitable principles. In almost every instance, possession of the country was taken with the least possible injury to the aborigines. Lands were purchased from the natives. It had been, according to
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Belknap, a common thing in New England to make fair and regular purchases from the Indians; many of their deeds are still preserved in the public records. Nume- rous instances, showing that the purchases were made .
from the Indians, might be quoted; a few must suffice.
The noble hearted, who were not allured by the love of conquest, and the power of wealth, in their efforts to colonize, purchased the right of possession from the sons of the forest. Calvert, a Roman Catholic, when he planted his colony, 1634, in the province of Maryland, commenced with an act of justice, of which the natives of that State may well be proud; he purchased of the savage proprietors, a right to the soil, before he took pos- session; for a compensation with which the Indians were satisfied .*
Roger Williams, a baptist, on his expulsion from Mas- sachusetts, in 1636, went to Seconk, where he procured a grant of land from Osamaquin, the chief Sachem of Pokanot. He honestly purchased their land, and a suf- ficiency of it, for his little colony; he was uniformly their friend, and neglected no opportunity of ameliorat- ing their condition, and elevating their character.t The Swedes, landing at Inlopen, 1637 or 1638, on the west- ern shore of the Delaware Bay, proceeded up the river, opened communications with the Indians; and purchased from them the soil, upon the western shore, from the
*Haw's Contribution; I. 23. +Holmes' Annals, I. 233.
NOTE .- In Roger Williams' Life, published by J. Knowles, In 1834, it is stated that Aquedueck Island, now Rhode Island, was ceded or sold to him for forty fathoms of white beads, then the currency of the country, by the realm owner Canonicus, King of the Naragansets, because he was a good man and a friend of the Indians, having settled among them in 1634, at Mochasuck, now Providence-MSS. 14.
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capes to the falls at Sankikans, opposite to the present city of Trenton. "They maintained a harmonious in- tercourse with the natives, acknowledging the right of soil to be in the aborignes. They not only scrupulously refrained from injuring them, but cultivated their friend- ship by acts of justice, and kindness in supplying their necessities:" they aimed in the spirit of the gospel, by friendly means, to civilize and win them over to the christian faith.
Philip Carteret, appointed in 1665, as Governor of New Jersey, "purchased from the Indians their titles to all the lands which were occupied. This proceeding was afterwards approved by the proprietaries, who then established the rule, that all lands should be purchased from the Indians, by the Governor and Council, who were to be re-imbursed by the settlers, in proportion to their respective possessions."*
William Penn, the 'sole lord' of the province of Penn- sylvania, followed the examples of justice and modera- tion, set him by former Europeans, in their magnanimous conduct towards the aborigines of America. Having thus united his example with theirs, for the imitation of all succeeding adventurers and settlers of colonies, he de- serves equal praise with those who set the example, and those who follow.t
*Frost's U. S. 130.
+ " We find that Penn had sent a letter, previous to his arrival, by the first colony for Pennsylvania, to the Indians, informing them that the Great God had been pleased to make him con- cerned in their part of the world, and that the king of the country, where he lived, had given him a province therein; but that he had no desire to enjoy it without their consent; that he was a man of peace, and that the people whom he had sent were of the same disposition; but if any difference should happen between them, it might be adjusted by an equal num-
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. Among historical writers there is a diversity of opinion as to the time when the first permanent settlement was made in Delaware. Darby, in his View of the United States, says, that a Swedish colony, under the auspices of Gustavus Adolphus, reached Delaware, 1628. Accord- ing to Gordon's History, Darby's assertion appears to be erroneous. The fact, however, that Delaware bay and river were explored as early as 1623, by Captain May, is well established. He sailed up the river as far as Glou- cester point, in New Jersey, a few miles below the city of Camden, where he built a fort called Nassau. Accord- ing to Gordon, the Swedes visited Cape Henlopen, which, on account of its verdure and fertility, they named Para- dise Point, and began a settlement on the Delaware bay and river; having, however, previous to making their settlements, bought land of the measurably civilized na- tives .* "Their first settlement was near Wilmington, at the mouth of Christina creek, and they afterwards built forts at Lewistown and Tinicum isle: which last was the seat of government of their colony of New Sweden .- Here John Printz, their governor, built himself a spacious mansion, to which they gave the name Printz's hall." According to Watson, the Swedes settled many other
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