A Reply to the Criticisms By J N Barker On the Historical Facts in the Pictur
A Reply to the Criticisms By J N Barker On the Historical Facts in the Pictur
James Mease
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It also contains several roads in the vicinity. The city and suburbs then contained 22, 769 buildings. " Scutz, or Schute, " according to Mr. B. , p. 26, was a title, meaning chief officer, changed into that of sheriff by the Eng- lish, when New Castle was incorporated, in 1672, — See Smith's New Jersey. " This explanation is not happy. " The title said by Smith (p. 72) to be " changed into sheriff for the corporation and river, " was " schoute, " the English of which, as given by Buys, in his ...Dutch and English Dic- tionary, is " sheriff or bailiff. " The words scutz, or schute, are not to be found in the Swedish Dictionary of Serenius, nor in the Dutch one of Buys. The probability therefore, is, that scutz was not a " title, " but a proper name. This idea is strengthened by the fact, that Risingh, the commander of Fort Christina, was the " chief officer, " having been sent out by the Swedish government as " director general" of the colony, and from whom Sven Scutz received his appoint- C 18 inent: and yet the supposed title of " scutz" was not annexed to Risingh, as it ought to have been, if it meant " chief officer.
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