sailors were stationed on the south side of the creek, by the
yacht Eendraght (Union), where the major constructed a battery of three
guns, one eight-pounder and two six-pounders; the general's company
and the field marshal's were divided into two. The marshal threw up a
battery of two twelve-pounders, about northwest of the fort. The general
placed a battery about north of the fort, opposite the land entrance,
one hundred paces, by calculation, from the fort, and mounting
one eighteen-pounder, one eight-pounder, one six-pounder, and one
three-pounder.(2)

(1) On Augustin Herrman's excellent map of Maryland and
Delaware, "Virdrietige Hoeck" (Tedious Point) appears as a
name of a promontory about where Marcus Hook, Pa., now is.
Rising, however, reports the Dutch as landing at Tridje
Hoeck ("Third Point"), just north of Christina Creek.

(2) For a plan of the siege, derived from that made by the
Swedish engineer Linstrom, see Winsor, _Narrative and
Critical History of America_, IV. 480.

The 17th, the flyboat Liefde returned to the Manhathans with the Swedish
prisoners. From the 17th to the 23rd nothing particular happened. Then,
when we had everything ready, the governor of the fort received a letter
from our general, to which our general was to have an answer the next
day. The same day an Indian, whom we had dispatched on the 13th to
Menades, arrived, bringing news and letters to the effect that some
Dutch people had been killed at Menades by the Indians;(1) which caused
a feeling of horror through the army, so that the general sent a letter
immediately to the fort, that he would give them no time the next
morning. Then Then the general agreed wit the Swedish governor to come
together in the morning and make an arrangement. The general had a tent
erected between our quarter and their fort, and there an agreement was
made, whereby the governor, Johan Risingh, surrendered the fort on the
24th of September, upon the conditions mentioned in the accompanying
capitulation.(2) On the 28th of September the general left with the
ships and yachts, and we were ordered to remain from eight to fourteen
days, and let the men work daily at Fort Casemier, in the construction
of ramparts.(3)

(1) A hundred were killed, a hundred and fifty taken
prisoners.

(2) _N.Y. Col. Doc._, XII. 104-106.

(3) Fort Casimir was made the seat of Dutch administration
on the South