Note 18 — Chapter VI · The Social and Economic Life of the Colony Under Governor Printz, 1643–1653.

Tradition of the tyranny of Printz lived on among the settlers for generations. In 1759 Acrelius writes: “Some blame was put on Printz that he was too strict with the people, made slaves of the Swedes, kept them to work on the fort and his Tinakongh estate. And although this gossip is still circulated, it can nevertheless not be looked upon otherwise than as groundless.” Beskrif., p. 82; the author’s Swedish Settlements, I, 465.