Friday, December 24, 2010
The Dutch Receive an early Christmas Present From Lord Baltimore
December 24, 1673 - Lord Baltimore's soldiers from nearby Maryland raided and burned buildings in Whorekill, Delaware. Whorekill (Lewes) was a refortification of the Dutch whaling settlement of Swanendale which had been wiped out by Indians in 1632. The settlement of Whorekill, attacked by the English, had under 60 people in it. For the next year there will be a brief interlude of Dutch authority before England takes possession by Treaty of Westminster in 1674.
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It was those damned papists from Maryland stirring up trouble again! I tell you, those Calverts never were any good.
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