take for the American voyage any persons
of bad fame; nor was there ever any lack of good people for the
colony.

Governor Printz was now in a position to put the government upon a
safe footing to maintain the rights of the Swedes, and to put down the
attempts of the Hollanders. They had lately, before his arrival,
patched their little Fort Nassau. On this account he selected the
island of Tenaekong as his residence, which is sometimes also called
Tutaeaenung and Tenicko, about three Swedish miles from Fort
Christina. The convenient situation of the place suggested its
selection as also the location of Fort Nassau,[7] which lay some miles
over against it, to which he could thus command the passage by water.
The new fort, which was erected and provided with considerable
armament, was called New Goetheborg. His place of residence, which he
adorned with orchards, gardens, a pleasure-house, etc., he named
Printz Hall. A handsome wooden church was also built at the same
place, which Magister Campanius consecrated, on the last great
prayer-day which was celebrated in New Sweden, on the 4th of
September, 1646. Upon that place also all the most prominent freemen
had their residences and plantations.

[1] From Acrelius's "History of New Sweden." Printed in "Old South
Leaflets." Acrelius from 1749 until 1756 was provost over Swedish
Congregations in America and pastor of their church at Christina,
now Wilmington, on the Delaware. His complete work is an exhaustive
one, and covers not only the early but the later years of Swedish
history on the Delaware. It has long been esteemed the best work we
have on the subject.

[2] Usselinx had proposed the formation of a company to trade in
foreign countries, including America, as early as 1604.

[3] Peter Minuit, the Governor of New Amsterdam, who purchased
Manhattan Island from the Indians for goods worth $24, is here
referred to.

[4] Paradise Point was near the present town of Lewes, in the State
of Delaware. The site is near where the Bay merges in the ocean.

[5] This name has been corrupted Into Henlopen. The cape was named
by Captain Cornelius May after a towu in Friesland. May's name was
given to the southern point of New Jersey now known as Cape May.
He visited Delaware Bay in or about 1614.

[6] Ft. Christina was within the limits of the present city of
Wilmington. The ancient Swedish church