Johan Risingh

[1] Upon arrival in 1654, Risingh expressed concerns about the loss of Native alliances due to declining trade.

[3] This relationship was in decline due to rising hostilities over trade competition in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

Risingh claimed that Fort Casimir had been built on land that New Sweden had purchased from the local Native Americans.

[4] Swedish-allied Lenape launched raids on underdefended villages in New Netherland in response to the Dutch attack on New Sweden.

This report was printed in 1878, in the appendix of Carl K. S. Sprinchorn's Kolonien Nya Sveriges Historia (in English: History of the Colony of New Sweden).