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}}'''Finns Point''' is a small strategic [[promontory]] in [[Pennsville Township, New Jersey|Pennsville Township]], [[Salem County, New Jersey]], and [[New Castle County, Delaware]], located at the southwest corner of the cape of [[Penns Neck (cape)|Penns Neck]], on the east bank of the [[Delaware River]] near its mouth on [[Delaware Bay]].<ref name=GNIS>{{cite gnis|876341|Finns Point}}</ref> Due to the wording of the original charter defining the boundaries of New Jersey and [[Delaware]], part of the promontory is actually enclosed within the state of Delaware's border, due to tidal flow and the manner in which the borders between New Jersey and Delaware were first laid out. Therefore, this portion of Finns Point, also called '''The Baja''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Baja: Why a strange piece of land near Pennsville belongs to Delaware instead of New Jersey |url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/10/18/theres-chunk-delaware-over-new-jersey-heres-why/3983619002/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=The News Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> is an [[exclave]] of Delaware, cut off from the rest of the state by [[Delaware Bay]].<ref>Schoonejongen, John. [http://blogs.app.com/capitolquickies/2010/09/10/how-delaware-got-on-jerseys-side-of-the-river/ "How Delaware got on Jersey’s side of the river"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', September 10, 2010. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Killcohook, in Pennsville Township, is another. Not only is it a 'confined disposal facility' for dredging materials, Killcohook is also the name of a nearby wildlife refuge. It borders another wildlife refuge, Supawna, as well as the Finns Point National Cemetery, the Finns Point Lighthouse and Fort Mott State Park."</ref> The area is about {{convert|10|mi}} south of the city of [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]], and directly across the Delaware River from the [[New Castle, Delaware|New Castle]] area, and the Delaware River entrance to the [[Chesapeake & Delaware Canal]]. [[Pea Patch Island]], part of the state of Delaware, sits in the channel of the river facing the promontory.

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 | format = PDF | accessdateaccess-date = 2012-07-31 | url-status = dead | archiveurlarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120728122102/http://www.salemcountynj.gov/cmssite/downloads/departments/Archives%20Office/TIME%20LINE%20I%201600%20to%201699.pdf | archivedatearchive-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 | accessdateaccess-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 | accessdateaccess-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 | work = | publisher = Rootsweb | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waughtel/The_Immigration_of_Our_Ancestors.htm | accessdateaccess-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 | accessdateaccess-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 | format = | doi = | accessdateaccess-date = 2013-07-27 }}</ref><ref>http://nc-chap.org/cranehook/pdfs/cranehook1693c.pdf</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 | isbn = | quote = }}</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.

In 1641, a group of 60 settlers (20 families) from the [[New Haven Colony]] (in today's Connecticut) purchased land along the [[Kill (body of water)|kill]]. In 1643, the Governor of New Sweden built [[Fort Nya Elfsborg]], just east of present-day [[Salem, New Jersey]], and allowed the Varkens Kill settlement to remain if they swore allegiance to Sweden.<ref>{{Citation | last = Chandler | first = Alfred N. | title = Land Title Origins: A Tale of Force and Fraud | page =242 | publisher = Beard Books | origyearorig-year = 1945| year = 2000 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tzk0kzg9LioC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dqq=Land+Title+Origins:%3A+A+Tale+of+Force+and+Fraud+New+Englanders+on+the+Delaware&sourcepg=bl&ots=_P5o7V-kQQ&sig=IUBWcgCCSV6VQsDOjXaiTgVxPBI&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=mXXxUYCAL4aK0AWMmIGoAw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Land%20Title%20Origins%3A%20A%20Tale%20of%20Force%20and%20Fraud%20New%20Englanders%20on%20the%20Delaware&f=falsePA242 | isbn = 1-893122-89-1 | quote = }}</ref><ref>{{cite journalbook | last = Sheridan | first = Janet L. | title = "Their houses are some Built of timber": The colonial timber frame houses of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey | publisher = University of Michigan Ann Arbor | pages = 182 | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780549186526 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X5Ugae1GbMwC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dqq=New+Haven+Varkenskill&sourcepg=bl&ots=ON_iYxdL4V&sig=wy5J7ozT2BXzhSUaQzqe7wQb448&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=Qf7wUY-xDoe47AaUj4GQBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=New%20Haven%20Varkenskill&f=falsePA48 | accessdateaccess-date = 2013-07-24 }}{{Dead link|date=November quote2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | lastlast1 = Howe | firstfirst1 = Henry | author-link = Henry Howe | last2 = Barber | first2 = John W. | author2-link = John Warner Barber | title = Salem, NJ | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FkMVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false | quote = }}</ref>

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* [http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm Finnish place name origins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127084948/http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm |date=2006-01-27 }}

* [http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/index?section=news&id=4874173 Channel 6 Action News (Philadelphia) Special Report on Finns Point] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305150737/http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/index?section=news&id=4874173 |date=2007-03-05 }}