emained in
office till recalled early in 1632. In 1636-1637 he made
arrangements with Blommaert and the Swedish government, in
consequence of which he conducted the first Swedish colony
to Delaware Bay, landing there in the spring of 1638, and
establishing New Sweden on territory claimed by the Dutch.
During the ensuing summer he perished in a hurricane at St.
Christopher, in the West Indies.

(3) Probably the ame as Jan Huych, comforter of the sick.

(4) Jan Huyghens was deacon of the Dutch Reformed church at
Wesel in 1612; and probably Minuit was elder in the French
church there.

At the first administration of the Lord's Supper which was observed,
not without great joy and comfort to many, we had fully fifty
communicants--Walloons and Dutch; of whom, a portion made their first
confession of faith before us, and others exhibited their church
certificates. Others had forgotten to bring their certificates with
them, not thinking that a church would be formed and established here;
and some who brought them, had lost them unfortunately in a general
conflagration, but they were admitted upon the satisfactory testimony
of others to whom they were known, and also upon their daily good
deportment, since one cannot observe strictly all the usual formalities
in making a beginning under such circumstance.

We administer the Holy Supper of the Lord once in four months,
provisionally, until a larger number of people shall otherwise require.
The Walloons and French have no service on Sundays, otherwise than in
the Dutch language, for those who understand no Dutch are very few. A
portion of the Walloons are going back to the Fatherland, either
because their years here are expired, or else because some are not very
serviceable to the Company. Some of them live far away and could not
well come in time of heavy rain and storm, so that they themselves
cannot think it advisable to appoint any special service in French
for so small a number, and that upon an uncertainty. Nevertheless,
the Lord's Supper is administered to them in the French language, and
according to the French mode, with a sermon preceding, which I
have before me in writing, so long as I can not trust myself
extemporaneously.(1) If in this and in other matters your Reverence
and the Reverend Brethren of the Consistory, who have special
superintendence over us here, deem it necessary to administer to us any
corr