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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.<ref>[http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/salemnames/ ''Placenames of Salem County, NJ''], West Jersey History Project / Salem County Historical Society, 1964. Accessed September 21, 2015.</ref>
Tradition holds that a settlement was first planted by [[Finns]] as part of the colony of [[New Sweden]] in 1638.<ref>{{cite web | title = Seventeenth Century Salem County, New Jersey – 1600 through 1699 | publisher = Salem County Office of Archives and Records Management | url = http://www.salemcountynj.gov/cmssite/downloads/departments/Archives%20Office/TIME%20LINE%20I%201600%20to%201699.pdf | access-date = 2012-07-31 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120728122102/http://www.salemcountynj.gov/cmssite/downloads/departments/Archives%20Office/TIME%20LINE%20I%201600%20to%201699.pdf | archive-date = 2012-07-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Math Teacher | title = First Colony of Settlers of Finnish Blood - Pennsville, NJ | publisher = Waymarking | date = December 10, 2010 | url = http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMA708_FIRST_Colony_of_Settlers_of_Finnish_Blood_Pennsville_NJ | access-date = 2013-07-28 | quote =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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Fins Point | work = Finnish Place Names - New Jersey | publisher = Genealogia | url = http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm | access-date = 2013-07-28 | archive-date = 2006-01-27 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060127084948/http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> among them, the family of Anders Sinicka, whose surname has many variations.<ref>{{cite web | title = Old Chest | publisher = Rootsweb | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waughtel/The_Immigration_of_Our_Ancestors.htm | access-date = 2013-07-28}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web | last = Dunlap | first = A.R. | author2 = E. J. Moyne | title = The Finnish Language on the Delaware | publisher = Genealogia | url = http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article182e.htm | access-date = 2013-07-28 | quote = 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 | archive-date = 2007-09-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930194011/http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article182e.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite journal | last = Vuorinen | first = Ask | title = The Delaware Finns | date = December 27, 2012 | url = http://www.askovuorinen.fi/page35.php | access-date = 2013-07-27 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = McMahon | first = William | title = South Jersey Towns | publisher = Rutgers University Press | url = http://wp.stockton.edu/njhistory/files/2011/01/McMahon-South-Jersey-Towns.pdf }}</ref> This is recalled in the name of the road running along the shore south of the Port of Salem, Sinnicksons Landing Road.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://maps.google.nl/maps?client=safari&q=Sinnickson+Landing+Road+Salem+new+jersey&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c71a9f2d38372f:0x2caa04de468193f7,Sinnickson+Landing+Rd,+Salem,+NJ+08079,+USA&gl=nl&ei=SuTzUeTkHsveOJHAgPgM&ved=0CDYQ8gEwAA |title = Google Maps}}</ref> which bears the name of the a prominent Salem County family, including [[Thomas Sinnickson (merchant)|Thomas Sinnickson]] and his descendants.
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