owner “entertained them and let them have what land they desired.” “In the presence of witnesses” Lamberton and Turner contracted “several deeds of bargain and sale of land on both sides of the Delaware.” The tracts extended “from a small river or creek called Chesumquesett (Racoon creek) northward, where the land of the said Usquata, Sachem of Narratacus, doth begin, unto the seacoast southward” on the east side of the Delaware and “from a riverlet called by the Indians Tomquncke unto another riverlet on the west side of the great river called by the English Delaware.” Having discovered the intentions of the English, Ridder prepared his sloop and sailed down the river to thwart the designs of Turner and Lamberton. He landed at a certain _kill_ in the neighborhood of the wig-wams of Wickusi, who professed to be the true owner. The sachem was called, “a bargain was made with him”, and he was given “good remuneration” for the land. A pole with the arms of Sweden upon it was then set in the ground in the presence of Wickusi and other Indians, and a Swedish salute was fired from the sloop. It seems, however, that the full amount stipulated in the deed was not paid at the time, for in 1647 claims were presented to Printz.[11] When Ridder had planted his limit-poles, he sent Van Dyck to the English “with information that the land had been purchased by the Swedes and that that was the reason why the shots had been fired.” He also protested against the English trade in the river. But Turner and Lamberton paid no heed to the Swedes and went on as before. A few days after the purchase, Usquata removed the Swedish coat-of-arms and carried them to Fort Christina, but, as soon as Wickusi became aware of it, he sent a messenger to the Swedes, requesting them to “put up the coat-of-arms again”, as _they_ had bought the land from the real owner. From Varkens Kill Lamberton and Turner proceeded to the Schuylkill, where they bought another tract of land extending a few miles along the eastern shore of the Delaware north of Philadelphia. In the meantime the English built a blockhouse and some dwellings at Varkens Kill. The settlement numbered twenty families, in all sixty persons. They were probably mostly traders, but some of them went there for the purposes of agriculture and tobacco planting, and it is likely that they laid out small gardens and farms around their log cabins as early as in the summer of 1641. IV.