The Pioneers of New York An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the St Nic
The Pioneers of New York An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the St Nic
Hoffman Charles Fenno
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Within one year after their arrival, to erect a decent habitable tenement in New Netherland. "* The next element of Knickerbockerhood dates from the year Ui(i5, when the c-olony of "New Swedeland " surrendered to Peter Stuyvesant, who, upon tlie refusal of the Swedes to swear allegi- ance to the conquerors. " picked out the tiower of the Swedish troops, and sent them, with some of the principal inhabitants, to Manhattan. "! A portion of these established themselves in this city, while others so...on removed to the Walloon c-olony of Esopus, in what is now Ulster county.^ * Paulding's New Amsterdam. t See Coll. New-York Historical Society, 1814 and 1841. t Coll. New-York Historical Society. Many of these Swedish colonists were Finns. Dunlap, vol. I. -p. 127, shows how intimate was the relation kept up five years after this period, between the . Swedes of New-York and those on the Delaware; the latter of whom, being the most numerous, were confidently appealed to by the former in 1670, to assist them in building a place of worship, and the governor gave permission to a Swedish gentleman, upon petition of the ministers and elders of the Lutheran Church of New-York, to go to Delaware to solicit benefactions for that purpose.
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