SWANENDAEL AFTER THE MASSACRE

SWANENDAEL

AFTER THE MASSACRE

The fur trade was much too important to both the Dutch and the

Native Indians, the Lenape's, for either of them to remain enemies,

so the Dutch traders quickly returned to trading with the Lenape's at

the New Jersey shore Dutch forts..

But, here come the Swedes, right in the middle of everything, set

up on the west banks of the Christiana River, then the Minquas Kil.

This fur trading settlement which was closer to the Susquehannock

gave the Swedes access to the thicker Canadian fur that the European's

preferred which the Indians obtained from their Huron cousins around

Lake Ontario.

So for twenty years as the Dutch and Swedish were busy

trying to outmaneuver one another for the Native fur trade , down came the English from Hartford and New Haven, causing competition which the Native American tribes welcomed. All Nations did strive to please and not disoblige the Indian Nations considerations of trade. In plain words, easy to understand, the Native Indians held the hammer and

kept business as they pleased.

Stuyvesant of New Netherlands jumps in to cut the Swedes tradeing,

so, these two nation made war. The Dutch failed, English took control

of the Delaware River and the fur trade.

Abstract: Christian Koot's, Augustine Herrmans Chesapeake, “ Map in

Motion “ . A book. BY Harrison H. 12/28/2018..........................