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*(New Netherland) Fort Nassau, now Brooklawn, New Jersey 1623-1651<ref>Amandus Johnson, "[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/nswamap.html Detailed Map of New Sweden 1638-1655]" in Amandus Johnson's book ''The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664'' (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1915), 392. | *(New Netherland) Fort Nassau, now Brooklawn, New Jersey 1623-1651<ref>Amandus Johnson, "[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/nswamap.html Detailed Map of New Sweden 1638-1655]" in Amandus Johnson's book ''The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664'' (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1915), 392.</ref><ref>"Location of Fort Nassau" in Gloucester County, New Jersey History and Genealogy [Internet site] at http://www.nj.searchroots.com/Gloucesterco/fortnassau.htm#Location (accessed 8 November 2008).</ref> | ||
*Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware 1638-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>John A. Munroe, ''Colonial Delaware: A History''] (Millwood, N.Y.:KTO Press, 1978) [FHL book 975.1 H2mu], 16-18. “From there they proceeded according to instructions up the Delaware and into the Christina River, the Minquas Kill to the Dutch. Here, after reconnoitering the stream, Minuit met with Indians and purchased lands from Duck Creek (the southern boundary of New Castle County) to the Schuylkill. Here too a site was picked for a settlement that was called Fort Christina. It was at the Rocks, ‘a wharf of stone’ on the Christina about two miles from the Delaware River and above the junction of the Christina and its main tributary, the Brandywine, on the east side of the present city of Wilmington.”</ref> | *Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware 1638-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>John A. Munroe, ''Colonial Delaware: A History''] (Millwood, N.Y.:KTO Press, 1978) [FHL book 975.1 H2mu], 16-18. “From there they proceeded according to instructions up the Delaware and into the Christina River, the Minquas Kill to the Dutch. Here, after reconnoitering the stream, Minuit met with Indians and purchased lands from Duck Creek (the southern boundary of New Castle County) to the Schuylkill. Here too a site was picked for a settlement that was called Fort Christina. It was at the Rocks, ‘a wharf of stone’ on the Christina about two miles from the Delaware River and above the junction of the Christina and its main tributary, the Brandywine, on the east side of the present city of Wilmington.”</ref> | ||
*Fort New Gothenborg (Nya Göteborg, or Tenakung), now Essington, Pennsylvania 1643-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>Albert Cook Myers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FDR-AAAAIAAJ Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707]'' (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912; reprint Barnes and Noble, 1959; digitized by Google, 2008), 28 note 1. “Fort Nya Göteborg or New Gothenburg on Tinicum Island.”</ref> | *Fort New Gothenborg (Nya Göteborg, or Tenakung), now Essington, Pennsylvania 1643-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>Albert Cook Myers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FDR-AAAAIAAJ Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707]'' (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912; reprint Barnes and Noble, 1959; digitized by Google, 2008), 28 note 1. “Fort Nya Göteborg or New Gothenburg on Tinicum Island.”</ref> | ||