Finns Point

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Finns Point
exclave of Delaware, cut off from the rest of the state by Delaware Bay.[3] The area is about 10 miles (16 km) south of the city of Wilmington, and directly across the Delaware River from the New Castle area, and the Delaware River entrance to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Pea Patch Island
, part of the state of Delaware, sits in the channel of the river facing the promontory.

The area in Delaware was previously protected as Killcohook National Wildlife Refuge but is now a confined disposal facility used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[2]

17th century

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.[4]

Tradition holds that a settlement was first planted by Finns as part of the colony of New Sweden in 1638.[5][6][7] among them, the family of Anders Sinicka, whose surname has many variations.[8] [9] [10][11] This is recalled in the name of the road running along the shore south of the Port of Salem, Sinnicksons Landing Road.[12] which bears the name of the a prominent Salem County family, including Thomas Sinnickson and his descendants.

In 1641, a group of 60 settlers (20 families) from the New Haven Colony (in today's Connecticut) purchased land along the kill. In 1643, the Governor of New Sweden built Fort Nya Elfsborg, just east of present-day Salem, New Jersey, and allowed the Varkens Kill settlement to remain if they swore allegiance to Sweden.[13][14][15]

In 1651,

Quaker.[16][17]

Military facilities

The promontory is the location of

Fort Mott State Park
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Finns Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b "The Baja: Why a strange piece of land near Pennsville belongs to Delaware instead of New Jersey". The News Journal. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. ^ Schoonejongen, John. "How Delaware got on Jersey’s side of the river", Asbury Park Press, September 10, 2010. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Killcohook, in Pennsville Township, is another. Not only is it a 'confined disposal facility' for dredging materials, Killcohook is also the name of a nearby wildlife refuge. It borders another wildlife refuge, Supawna, as well as the Finns Point National Cemetery, the Finns Point Lighthouse and Fort Mott State Park."
  4. ^ Placenames of Salem County, NJ, West Jersey History Project / Salem County Historical Society, 1964. Accessed September 21, 2015.
  5. ^ "Seventeenth Century Salem County, New Jersey – 1600 through 1699" (PDF). Salem County Office of Archives and Records Management. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  6. ^ Math Teacher (December 10, 2010). "First Colony of Settlers of Finnish Blood - Pennsville, NJ". Waymarking. Retrieved 2013-07-28. FINNS POINT Near Here 300 Years Ago and Later Lived the First Colony Of Settlers of Finnish Blood Upon This Continent **To Their Memory and To The Love of Freedom And Justice that They Handed Down to Their Descendants This Tablet is Erected June 30, 1938
  7. ^ "Fins Point". Finnish Place Names - New Jersey. Genealogia. Archived from the original on 2006-01-27. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
  8. ^ "Old Chest". Rootsweb. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
  9. ^ Dunlap, A.R.; E. J. Moyne. "The Finnish Language on the Delaware". Genealogia. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2013-07-28. Sinick Brour is called a Finn in a land record in Vol. XV (p. 61) of the Penn MSS (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). On the Finnish origin of the Sinnexson, or Sennecson, family see The journal and Biography of Nicholas Collin, tr. Amandus Johnson (Philadelphia, 1936), p. 227
  10. ^ Vuorinen, Ask (December 27, 2012). "The Delaware Finns". Retrieved 2013-07-27. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ McMahon, William, South Jersey Towns (PDF), Rutgers University Press
  12. ^ "Google Maps".
  13. ISBN 1-893122-89-1
  14. ISBN 9780549186526. Retrieved 2013-07-24.[permanent dead link
    ]
  15. ^ Howe, Henry; Barber, John W. (1844), Salem, NJ, New York: S. Tuttle
  16. ^ Clement, John (1875). A sketch of the life and character of John Fenwick. Published by Friends Historical Association. Philadelphia: Henry S. Volkmar
  17. ISBN 0-8063-0714-5

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