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In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no states complete control. English, Dutch, and Swedish colonizers all staked claims to the territory, but none could exclude their rivals for long -- in part because Native Americans in the region encouraged the competition. Officials and settlers alike struggled to determine which European nation would possess the territory and what liberties settlers would keep after their own colonies had surrendered.
The resulting struggle for power resonated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. While the rivalry promoted patriots who trumpeted loyalties to their sovereigns and nations, it also rewarded cosmopolitans who struck deals across imperial, colonial, and ethnic boundaries. Just as often it produced men -- such as Henry Hudson, Willem Usselincx, Peter Minuit, and William Penn -- who did both.
Ultimately, The Contest for the Delaware Valley shows how colonists, officials, and Native Americans acted and reacted in inventive, surprising ways. Thompson demonstrates that even as colonial spokesmen debated claims and asserted fixed national identities, their allegiances -- along with the settlers -- often shifted and changed. Yet colonial competition imposed limits on this fluidity, forcing officials and settlers to choose a side. Offering their allegiances in return for security and freedom, colonial subjects turned loyalty into liberty. Their stories reveal what it meant to belong to a nation in the early modern Atlantic world.

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THE CONTEST FOR THE
DELAWARE VALLEY
THE CONTEST FOR THE DELAWARE VALLEY ALLEGIANCE IDENTITY AND EMPIRE IN THE - photo 1
THE CONTEST FOR THE
DELAWARE VALLEY
ALLEGIANCE, IDENTITY, AND EMPIRE
IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
MARK L. THOMPSON
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Picture 2BATON ROUGE
Published by Louisiana State University Press
Copyright 2013 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing
Designer: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne
Typefaces: Garage Gothic, display; Ingeborg, text
Printer: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.
Binder: Dekker Bookbinding
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thompson, Mark L., 1973
The contest for the Delaware Valley : allegiance, identity, and empire in the seventeenth century / Mark L. Thompson.
pages cm.
Includes Bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8071-5058-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8071-5059-7 (pdf) ISBN 978-0-8071-5060-3 (epub) ISBN 978-0-8071-5061-0 (mobi) 1. Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)History17th century. 2. Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Ethnic relationsHistory17th century. 3. Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Social conditions17th century. I. Title.
F157.D4T45 2013
974.9dc23
2012039897
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Picture 3
To my family
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
Herman Melville, Cetology, Moby-Dick
The idea for this book was born in the late-twentieth-century Delaware Valley at a short distance from the Schuylkill River. Since then the pursuit of that idea has taken me to many places and left me with many debts. Time and again others have aided me so that I might be able to undertake and complete this book. Perhaps, then, we should add Gratitude to Ishmaels plea.
The project began when I was a doctoral student in the Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University, which provided me with a Lovejoy Fellowship in my first year. Subsequent support for my studies came from the United States Department of Educations generous Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. I presented early versions of parts of this book at the Research Seminar in Early Modern Colonial British America, led by Jack Greene, my mentor then and now. His support has always meant a lot to me. The participants in those seminars offered sharp advice and critique that shaped the arguments I have developed in this book. They were, and are, good friends. At Johns Hopkins I learned a great deal as well from my seminars with Michael Johnson, who continues to suggest fresh ways to think about my work. I later found a home in Philadelphia at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Led by Richard Dunn and then Daniel Richter, the McNeil Center provided me with office space, library privileges, and even travel support. Its associated faculty and many fellows made it a very stimulating place to work. It was there that I met Evan Haefeli, who introduced me to the Dutch and Swedes in the seventeenth-century Delaware Valley and continues to offer help and guidance. At the University of Pennsylvania Robert Naborn graciously gave me my first formal lessons in reading Dutch. Daniel Richter later offered useful advice for revising the manuscript.
I wrote, and rewrote, most of this book when I was a member of the Department of History at Louisiana State University (LSU). The university provided support in the form of research and travel grants from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies and a release from teaching. Those grants allowed me to conduct extended research into the Dutch and Swedish materials housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the New York State Archives, where I was later a Larry J. Hackman Research Fellow. Upstairs from the archive, Charles Gehring, the director of the New Netherland Project, gave me advice on my project, answered obscure questions, and freely shared his and Janny Venemas invaluable transcriptions and translations.
With the support of the LSU College of Arts and Sciences and an Andrew W. Mellon Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship from the John Carter Brown (JCB) Library, I was able to spend a year deepening and reshaping my manuscript. The JCBs director, Ted Widmer; staff members Valerie Andrews and Maureen ODonnell; and librarians Susan Danforth, Dennis Landis, and Ken Ward were universally helpful. I especially enjoyed working alongside fellows Paul Cohen, Anoush Terjanian, and Sam Truett and attending the librarys weekly luncheons and fellows presentations with Amy Bushnell and Jack Greene.
Back at LSU I benefited from the help and camaraderie of many people (and their spouses) while I put together the manuscript. In particular I must thank Tiwanna Simpson, Chuck Shindo, Michael Fontenot, Maribel Dietz, Jordan Kellman, Christine Kooi, Steve and Yolanda Ross, John and Sylvia Rodrigue, Reza Pirbhai, Reem Meshal, Carolyn Lewis, Margherita Zanasi, Meredith Veldman, Nancy Isenstein, Alecia Long, Victor Stater, Paul Hoffman, John Henderson, Court Carney, Colin Woodward, Rand Dotson, Katie Henninger, Bill Boelhower, Andrew Sluyter, Kent Mathewson, Mark Martin, and Darlene Albritton. Special thanks go to Andrew Burstein, who helped me turn the manuscript into a book. Across campus at LSU Press, Alisa Plant offered early and strong support for my work and patiently shepherded the book to press. Mary Lee Eggart worked hard to translate the long list of features I gave her into a clear, elegant map. As the books copyeditor, Elizabeth Gratch showed me what craftsmanship truly means.
Since coming to the University of Groningen in 2010, where final revisions of the manuscript were completed, I have had the chance to travel through the homelands of Peter Minuit and Pieter Stuyvesant, to stroll along the canals of Amsterdam, and to give my students a tour of the West India Company shipyard that was once down the street from our classroom. My new friends, neighbors, and colleagues have helped make Groningen our new home.
A number of libraries, archives, and institutions assisted me during my research. They include the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Louisiana State University Libraries, the Tulane University Libraries, the John Carter Brown Library, the Brown University Libraries, the Providence Public Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Delaware Historical Society, the New York State Archives, the New York State Library, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the British National Archives at Kew (formerly the PRO), the National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet), the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket), the National Archives of the Netherlands (Het Nationaal Archief, formerly Het Rijksarchief), the National Library of the Netherlands (De Koninklijke Bibliotheek), and finally the University of Groningen Libraries.
I am grateful to have had opportunities to present my research at talks and conferences sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Society for Early Americanists, the Society for Netherlandic History, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the John Carter Brown Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and LSU Historys Works in Progress Series. I especially appreciate the comments and suggestions made by the speakers, panelists, and audience members who attended those talks.
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