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Title: A history of Pennsylvania
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Allen C. (Allen Clapp), 1846-1920
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Publisher: Boston New York, : D. C. Heath
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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utch claimed notonly the lands near the North or Hudson River, but alsothose near the South or Delaware River. In 1610 an Englishcaptain is said to have anchored in the bay and named thesouthern cape De La Warre, and the English began to callthe bay, Delaware, in honor of the governor of Virginia. Captain Mey; Hendricksen. — Another captain in theservice of the Dutch, Cornelius Jacobsen Mey or May, sailedalong the coast about 1614, and reaching this most southernpoint of what we call New Jersey, named it after himself,a name which the cape still retains. One of his vessels hav-ing been burned, he built at Manhattan (New York) another,only forty-live feet long, which was named the Onrust(Restless). In this small craft another Captain, CorneliusHendricksen, sailed up Delaware Bay and River in 1616,carefully exploring them. He probably went as far as thesite of Philadelphia and discovered the Schuylkill River.On his return he gave a glowing account of what he had EARLY SETTLEMENTS w^^^
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Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey seen: woods filled with deer, turkeys, and partridges, andother game and vines full of grapes. Dutch Colonies on the Delaware. — The Dutch WestIndia Company, founded in 1621, was organized by a Swedenamed Wilham Ussehnx. Under its auspices a vessel wassent out to the South (Delaware) River under Captain ^ley,with instructions to build a fort for the purpose of defenseand for trading with the natives. This was done at the placewhere Gloucester, New Jersey, now stands. It was namedFort Nassau.^ ^ The site is opjiositc the southern part of Phihulclphia. 6 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA A colony was started by the Dutch in 1629. ThroughPeter Minuit, Governor of Manhattan, land was boughtfrom the Indians, and in 1631 colonists to the number ofabout thirty settled near where Lewes, Delaware, now is,and called the place Swannendael. The next year, owing

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