Editing Peter Minuit (section)

===Establishing the New Sweden colony===
[[File:Samuel Blommaert (1583-1651).jpg|thumb|Samuel Blommaert (1583-1651)]]

After having lived in [[Emmerich am Rhein|Emmerich]] ([[Duchy of Cleves]]) for several years, Minuit made arrangements with [[Samuel Blommaert]] and the [[Sweden|Swedish]] government in 1637 to create the first Swedish colony in the [[New World]]. Located on the lower [[Delaware River]] within territory earlier claimed by the Dutch, it was called [[New Sweden]]. Minuit and his company arrived on the ''[[Fogel Grip]]'' and ''[[Kalmar Nyckel]]'' at [[Swedes' Landing]], which is present-day [[Wilmington, Delaware]], on 29 March, 1638. Minuit left the colony on 20 May, 1638 and sailed to the Caribbean island of [[Saint Kitts|St. Christopher]], where he arrived on 15 June to barter salt, a ship's cargo of wine and [[liquor]] for tobacco to make the voyage profitable.<ref>Kernkamp, G.W. (1908) Brieven van Samuel Blommaert aan den Zweedschen Rijkskanselier Axel Oxenstierna 1635–1641, p. 158. In: Bijdragen & Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap, nr. 29.</ref><ref>Ashmead, Henry Graham  ''History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania''   (Chapter II, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co. 1884)</ref><ref>Weslager, C. A. ''A Man and his Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel'' (Wilmington, Delaware: Kalmar Nickel Foundation. 1989</ref>