Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-10-21
The swedish Fathers N;OnMIncmi.

Movf MENr To EaaCr MEMORIAL CT THEIR LAND
ING-sIrE SECURED IN iHE OLD swEpEs
aRouSDH.
The project of erecting monument in this
city to commemorate tile landing of the Swedes,
and the establishment of the first Swedish colo
ny in America, ia still receiving earnest consid
Grafton, in tho hands Of the Delaware Historical
Society. Tho committee OH tho subject includes
DR.. L. p. Bush, Bishop Lee, Senator Bayard,
Mayor Whteley, Henry DUPONT John H. Adams
Rev. DR.. Frost, Col. ii. y. McComb, and OF hers
During last summer. tho committee made an
elaborate report ON tho whole subject, deciding
that the place well known as "The Rocks, on
the Christiana, now within the yards of the new
'.AIinluas Iron Works" OF the Mccullough Iron
Company, is the precise spot where Peter Mimi
uit landed from the hty Of Cdhndf, with his
party OF Swedes, on an April day in the year 1858,
and after due con- Iteration concluded that
monument to the event can best be placed on
the southern extremity of tho Cemetery OF
the Old SSeaes Chulch. This place pos
scsses the advantage Of beng very
near, and intimately connected by
historic ASSOCIATION with the landing and
landing place, Cor wliie the Swedish Fort
stood Oh the latter, tue fiery Stnyvesant planted
some Of his artillery on the former when in
| 1866, he summoned bold Jan E,singh to surren-
| der) and 1t affords site for the monument more
elevated more conspicuous, more convenient of
ACCESS, and less exposing the memorial erected
to danger of injury than if it were placed in the
rolling-iniIl yard. As to access, indeed, the
, Rocks arc now shut in, On Gland side, by the
new Mills entirely, and tourists seeking mol-
| ument there. would find it with difficulty.
The Committee in Charge of the subject have
furthor proceeded to obtain the offer OF site
| from the authorities Of tho Old Chureh-the
| Rector and Wardcns OF Trinity Parish The lat
Ter with due public spirit, have tendered for the
purpose a lot in the church grounds 30 feet by
| q. with access to it by walk. The tender viii
no doubt be willingly accepted, but at present
| the progress Of the enterprise awaits cousulta-
| tion with the government OF Sweden, which it il
thought proper to notify, in order that if King
Oscar, who now hits on the throne Of wild Queen
Christina. feels an Interest IN the affair, and
cares to have anyliipg done in it on his behalf
presuming that he cannot run over, himself,
| next year. to lag the cornerstone, and look at
| the Centennial -he may have the opportunity OF
| doing 70. 1t il proposed that when Senator Bay
ard goes TO Washington in December, at the
opening of Congress- he shall consult the Swed-
| irh Minister oil tile subject
| Mr.. Joseph J. Michiey, Of Philadelphia, a gen
tleman much occupied il antiquarian and histor.
ical researches, is warmly interested in tho mon
umenr enterprise, aud has been corresponding
| with persons in Sweden, for the purpose of as
containing more exactly, If possible, the time OF
| Minuit's arrival Ii II known to have been il
| the Spring Of 1898, and,without doubt in April
but the precise day Of That month, unless it car
be sscertaincl from the archives Of tho Swedish
| government, il lost,