English: Nautical chart of
Zwaanendael ("Swanendael") and Godyn's Bay in
New Netherland. Zwaanendael was a
patroonship founded by Samuel Godyn, a director of the
Dutch West India Company, in 1629. Godyn made his land claim to the West India Company under jurisdiction of the
Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. After a short time, the initial 32 inhabitants were murdered by local Indians and Godyn sold his land back to the West India Company. The West India Company kept the names of the local area, including Godyn's Bay, which eventually became
Delaware Bay. Ink and watercolor with pictorial relief.
The text in Dutch at left side of the map reads:
De natien aende Zuydt Rivier syn Groote
Sironese Aende Hoerenkil
Sewapois Remkokes
Kleyne Siconese Minquaen toegenaemt Machaorikyns.
Naraticonck Atsayonck
Mantaes Rechaweygh
Armewamix Matikongh
Momakavaongk Sankikans.
Dese booven geschreeven natien hebben altesaemen vrintschap onder
malcander, ende syn meest eenerlay volc ende van Een Spraeck, uytghe
sondert de Machaoretijns die so genoemt syn van weegen haar
Spraeck die Minquaens is en wil so veel geseyt syn als by ons
ouduytsche ofte waellin
Het leeven van deese luyden is volcoomelyck vry. Hear waer
segers ofte duyvelpreekers en hebben niet oover haer te seggen
haer sakimaen hebben niet te gebieden ende hebben geen autoriteyt
om iemant te straffen aen den hals.
De huwelycken en hebben geen clem, meest heeft elck een vrouw.,
de ooverste meer. Ende licht verlaetten sy haer wyven, die dan vande
een tot de ander voor hoer loopen, ordinary verstooten sy de vrouwen
als sy bevrucht syn en kinderen gehaelt heeft, ende hier door blyft het
lande soober van volck
Translated:
The nations at the South Rver are Great Sironese at the Hoerenkil
Sewapois Remkokes
Small Sironese Minquaen also named Machaorikyns.
Naraticonck Atsayonck
Mantaes Rechaweygh
Armewamix Matikongh
Momakavaongk Sankikans.
These above described nations have friendships with each other. And are mostly one people with one language, with the exception of the Machaoretijns that are named like this because of their language that is Minquaens and is as much similar as with us old Dutch or Wallonian.
The life of these people is totally free. Their soothsayers or devil preachers have nothing to say over them, their shamans can’t order them and have no authority to give someone a death penalty.
The marriages are not fixed, most have one wife, the chief more than one. And they leave their women easily, and these will go from one to another like a whore, usually women are disowned after having a child and as a result the population remains low.