#32 - Annotated Bibliography

In case you missed last week’s post, we are at Part 2 (of only two, don’t worry), of creating an Annotated Bibliography for the works so far discussed on this blog. They have been divided into three categories based on usability: For Academic Use, For General Use, and For Leisure Use. Part One is here and the Page, which will be updated overtime, is here. Some of these works are hard to track down, but others are readily available on Amazon and/or local bookstores. I heartily recommend buying anything in the Academic and General Use categories. If you read any of these, let me know, perhaps I shall add a Reader Review section in the future!

Next week we will be revisiting one of my early projects then we will return to the Ryves Holt House, but I believe there may be pirates on the horizon as well… Stay tuned, dear reader.

And off we go for Part 2! 

For Academic Use

    Becker, M.J. (2001). “The Dutch Fort on Pilottown Road in Lewes: Zwaanendael Map Re-evaluated.” Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Delaware, 38, new series, 1-5. 

• Newer evaluation of the drawing of a fort on an estimated 1659 (may be closer to 1631) map of the area of modern day Lewes as the 1659 fort, not the 1631 Swanendael fort. This makes the actual location of the settlement of Swanendael unclear.

    Bleed, Peter, Lindsay Long, Jessica Long, and David Killick. “Scale Armor on the North American Frontier: Lessons from the John G. Bourke Armor.” Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 60 (August 2015).

• My first published work looking at a set of scale armor found in the Nebraska History Museum’s collections. Verdict ended up being inconclusive due to no other similar armor with a concrete history and inconclusive carbon-14 radiocarbon dating. Likely the armor was made on the frontier for use by Native American fighters as seen in several late 19th century drawings.

    DaValinger, Leon, Jr. “The Burning of the Whorekill, 1673.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1950.

• Uses unpublished depositions describing the Lord Baltimore Raids from the Cadwalader Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

    Graham, Willie, Carter L. Hudgins, Carl R. Lounsbury, Fraser D. Neiman, and James P. Whittenburg. "Adaptation and Innovation: Archaeological and Architectural Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.” William and Mary Quarterly, July 2007.

• Overview of building strategies and patterns in the early Chesapeake area, not super useful for Swanendael/Whorekill/Lewes, but may help eventually.

    Huey, P.R. (2010). “Dutch Colonial Forts in New Netherland.” In Verre Forten, Vreemde Kusten: Nederlandse verdedigingswerken oversee. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 287-331

• Confirms the idea of Becker’s supposition that the 1659/1631 map does not show Swandendael, and confirms the presence of Fort Oplandt at Lewes in 1659. Then goes on to another map showing Swanendael upriver and Hoerekill at Lewes. He does not discuss this map, however. 

    Huhn, Erich M. (2016) "Book Review: Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn," Madison Historical Review: Vol. 13 , Article 7.

    Lewes Historic District. “Amended National Register for Historic Places Registration Form” 1993.

    

    Long, Lindsay. “On the Use and Meaning of Wood in Chinese Imperial Architecture.” Master’s Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015.

• My master’s thesis exploring the role wood played in Imperial Architecture in China, explorations centered on the Forbidden City and why China almost always focused on using wood as their primary building material even though they clearly knew how to use stone as well. Ends with a discussion on the differing ideas in Chinese architectural philosophy that do and do not overlap with modern, Western ideas of historic preservation.

    Naum, Magdalena. "How to Plant a Colony in the New World: Rules and Practices in New Sweden and 17th century Delaware Valley." Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: Between Text and Practice, Book Chapter, 2018.

• Discussed the impact on Swedish and Finnish settlers of the handoffs of control between the Dutch and English. Does not mention Swanendael/Whorekill, but could be helpful to understand the mindsets of those living at Whorekill in the 1660-1680s.

    Reed, Paula S., Paula S. Reed & Associates. “A Historic Saga of Settlement and Nation Building.” First State National Historic Park Survey, 2019.

    Repella, Kyle. Review of Soderlund, Jean R., Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society before William Penn. H-Pennsylvania, H-Net Reviews. October, 2016.

Soderlund, Jean R. Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn. 2014.

• Excellent book that details the history of the Delaware River and Bay from the early history of the Lenape peoples until William Penn was given control of the area in the late 17th century. Discusses Swanendael in part, with an emphasis on the destruction being a product of the Europeans’ disregard for agreements made with the Lenape peoples. A short section is devoted to the Lord Baltimore Raids. 

    Springate, Megan E. and Richard Grubb & Assoc. "Early Settlement at Bombay Hook, Kent County, DE." Conference Paper, May 2011.

• Great overview of cultural resources in the Bombay Hook area, but nothing really pertaining to Lewes/Whorekill. Except that the area may be the northernmost extent of the Swanendael patroonship.

For General Use

    Burdick, Kim. "South River Tales: Swanendael." Conference Paper, October 2014.

• Really good references and their analysis agrees with mine, especially about the naming of Hoerekill, the 1659/1631 fort, etc. Gives good references, but as this is not a peer reviewed source, I am unwilling to upgrade this to an ‘Academic Use’ source.

    Debold, Beth. “Reconciling Professional Rifts: Can Historians and Archivists Understand One Another Better?” Perspectives on History: Viewpoints, Jan 21, 2021.

• https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2021/reconciling-professional-rifts-can-historians-and-archivists-understand-one-another-better

    Goodall, Jamie L.H. Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars.  2020.

    

    Haefeli, Evan. "Revolt of the Long Swede: Transatlantic Hopes and Fears on the Delaware, 1669." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 2006. 

• I did not find useful, as it pertained to the Delaware River, not Bay. It also seemed to need additional research about the reasons for spreading rumors to create boogiemen...

    London, Daniel. “Celebration, Complacency, Critique: New Netherlands Historiography.” Course paper, December 12, 2008.

• A quick overview of work published about New Netherlands and its place in the greater field of History.

    Watson, B.M. “Please Stop Calling Things Archives: An Archivist’s Plea.” Perspectives on History: Perspectives Daily, Jan 22, 2021.

• https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/please-stop-calling-things-archives-an-archivists-plea

For Leisure Use

    Brittingham, D. Hazel. Lantern On Lewes: Where the Past is Present. 1998

  

    Haden, Amy. Victorian Lewes and Its Architecture. 1986

    Historical Tour of Lewes Booklet. No date, c. 1970s.

    Long, Lindsay. “Online International Cataloging - the ISCA Archive.” The Society

of California Archivists Winter Newsletter, 2021.

    Parkes, Abigail, Deanna Cunningham, Lindsay Long, Sirin Ghiye, Thomas Prince, and Florrie Farkas. “Navigating the ISCA Archive.” Nautical Archaeology Society Annual Conference, 2020.

*I will add the entries for the Lewes History Journal Vols. 2 (1999), 4 (2001), 5 (2002), 16 (2013), and 22 (2020) in the future once I can give them a closer read.