A History of the State of Delaware From Its First Settlement Until the Present
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2 Hudde says, " It was usually garrisoned by twelve men, commanded by a lieutenant. It had eight iron and brass guns, and one potshoof. 3 The main object of this fort was to visit the Dutch vessels, and oblige them to lower their colors as they sailed up the Delaware, which greatly "aifronted them. " 4 Peterson De Vries, the energetic projector of the unfortunate colony at Lewestown, was fired at, as he sailed up the Delaware, in the month of October of this year, and was ordered to strike his ...flag. He says the fort was commanded by Captain Printz, " who weighed upwards of four hundred pounds, and drank three drinks at every meal. " He describes the Swedes " as not very sober, as they bought from the captain of the vessel, a good quantity of wine and sweetmeats, and that neither here nor in Virginia, was intoxication punished by whipping. 5 Either shortly afterwards or previous to building this fort, Printz succeeded in expelling the English, years, and was at last burnt down by accident, since the commence ment of the present century, p.
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