Editing Elsinboro Township, New Jersey (section)

==History==
At the time of European colonization in the 17th century the [[Delaware River]] was known as the South River and the [[Salem River]] was known as Varkens Kill, or Hogg Creek.<ref>[http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/salemnames/ Placenames of Salem County, NJ], West Jersey History Project / Salem County Historical Society . Accessed July 27, 2014.</ref> In 1641, without having a patent, a group of 60 settlers (20 families) from the [[New Haven Colony]] (in today's Connecticut) purchased land along the [[Kill (body of water)|kill]] from indigenous [[Lenape]].<ref>Chandler, Alfred N. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tzk0kzg9LioC&pg=PA242 ''Land Title Origins: A Tale of Force and Fraud'], p. 242. {{ISBN|1-893122-89-1}} Accessed February 17, 2015.</ref><ref>Sheridan, Janet L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=X5Ugae1GbMwC&pg=PA48 ''"Their Houses are Some Built of Timber": The Colonial Timber Frame Houses of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey''], p. 48. University of Delaware. School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, 2007. {{ISBN|9780549186526}}. Accessed February 17, 2015.</ref><ref>{{Citation | last1 = Howe | first1 = Henry | author-link = Henry Howe | last2 = Barber | first2 = John W. | author2-link = John Warner Barber | title = Salem, NJ | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FkMVAAAAYAAJ | quote = In 1641, some English families, (probably emigrants from New Haven, Conn.,) embracing about 60 persons, settled on Ferken's creek, (now Salem.) About this period, the Swedes bought of the Indians the whole district from Cape May to Raccoon creek; and, in order to unite these English with the Swedes, the Swedish governor, Printz, who arrived from Sweden the year after (1642), was to "act kindly and faithfully toward them; and as these English expected soon, by further arrivals, to increase their numbers to several hundreds, and seemed also willing to be subjects of the Swedish government, he was to receive them under allegiance, though not without endeavoring to effect their removal."}}</ref>

Shortly after [[Johan Björnsson Printz]], governor of [[New Sweden]], arrived in the colony in 1643, he instructed that [[Fort Nya Elfsborg]] be built.<ref name="discoversalemcounty">{{cite web|url=http://www.discoversalemcounty.com/Elsinboro-Township.asp|website=discoversalemcounty.com|title=History of Elsinboro |access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref> Named after the [[Old Älvsborg|Old Älvsborg Fortress]] off shore from [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]], it was located on the Delaware River between Salem River and [[Alloway Creek]]. In 1655 [[Peter Stuyvesant]], on behalf of the [[Dutch West India Company]], re-asserted control over the region, which was later captured by the [[British people|British]] in 1664.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Weslager| first = C. A.| title = New Sweden on the Delaware 1638-1655| publisher = The Middle Atlantic Press| year = 1988| location = Wilmington}}</ref>