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truly deemed the first permanent European settlement
on the Delaware.
Although the honor of conceiving this project
belongs to Willem Usselinx, of Antwerp, the company
organized by him, known as the Australian or South
Company, accomplished nothing at that time; and it
was left for Samuel Blommaert and Peter Spiring, a
Hollander residing in Sweden, to carry out the scheme
in conjunction with Peter Minuit, the first
Director-General of New Netherland, who then resided in
Cleves. In a letter written at Amsterdam, June 15,
1636, the latter offered to make a voyage to America,
and, after further deliberation, it was determined to
form a Swedish-Dutch Company to carry on trade
with, and establish colonies on, portions of the North
American coast not already occupied by the Dutch or
English. Half of the cost of the expedition was to be
contributed by Minuit and Blommaert and their Dutch
friends, and the remaining half was to be subscribed
in Sweden. The Swedish Government sanctioned the
project and promised two vessels for the Company,
while the necessary sum of money was made up by
Axel Oxenstjerna, Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstjerna,
Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstjerna, and Clas Fleming
(Royal Councillors and Guardians of Queen Christina)
and Peter Spiring. The ship Key of Calmar and the
sloop Griffin were equipped and manned in Holland,
sailed from Gothenburg in the autumn of 1637, and
arrived at their place of destination not later than March,
1638. Minuit directed their course to the Delaware,
where they first landed at a place on the west bank
of the river called Paradis Udden (Paradise Point),
below Murderkill Creek. They afterwards proceeded
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