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South and Ship Company, one-sixth by the Crown, and
the remainder by Oxenstjerna, Spiring, Fleming and
others. On the 15th of August a third governor was
appointed to succeed Hollender in New Sweden, Johan
Printz, Lieutenant-CoIonel of the West Gotha Cavalry
in the Thirty Years War, who was engaged the previous
year in procuring emigrants for the last expedition
in Northern Finland, and had been ennobled in July.
He received “Instructions” signed by the Councillors
of Queen Christina, acting for her during her minority,
which are comprised in twenty-eight articles, endowing
him with large authority in the administration of
justice, enjoining him to keep the monopoly of the fur
trade, and to pay particular attention to agriculture,
including the cultivation of tobacco and the grape, and
to the raising of cattle, manufacture of salt, and taking
of fish. His territory was described as extending on
the west side of the Delaware, from Cape Henlopen
northwards to Trenton Falls, and on the east from
Raccoon Creek southwards to Cape May. Over the
whole of this region he was to maintain the supremacy
of his sovereign, and, in case of hostile encroachments,
“force was to be repelled by force.” On the 30th of
August a budged was adopted for New Sweden,
specifying, besides the Governor, a lieutenant, sergeant,
corporal, gunner, trumpeter and drummer, with
twenty-four private soldiers, and (in the civil list) a
preacher, clerk, surgeon, provost and executioner.
Special factors were designated for the service of the
Company in Gottenburg and Amsterdam.
Printz took command of the fourth expedition to
New Sweden, which sailed from Gottenburg, in the
ships “Fame” and “Swan”, on the 1st of November,
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