History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill ...

INIRODUCI'ION.
(IIIAI'TER T.
Scarcely two centuries have passed by since the
lute man held any pn-sessions among the red men oi
!ie woods, withni tlie iJmits of Peimsylvania. A little
nore than two hinidiv;! yi-;irs agu, the Indians held a
overeign right it; the >o]\ ol" Peimsylvania; and tlarrc
i^as none beside his uwni I'orcst brethren, in all the.
irilds, glens, vales antl muimtains, to molest or distnrl)
liai in his ixMCi'lul alMjdes of the extended ''Si/lva/iic..'''
u the priiirress ot'tiine, liowever, the Swedes came ami
tiled within llu; liniiis (if Pennsylvania, ahoul the year
(j;?8—they pmcha.>ed lands at ti eheaj) rale, from llie
lulians in ami aliout Tinicum Isle, wiiich afterwards
iccame the seat of government of the New Sweden coloiy;foras
early as 1642, John Printz erected there a
pacions mansion, well known in history as Printz' Hall.
lere the Swedes lield possessions tiU 1()55, when tlie
[)utch subdued them, and brought them under the jmislietion
of Peter Stuyvesant, (Jovernor of New Nether-
aiids, who, however, in his turn, was soon afterwardt;
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