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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.
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 | orig-year = 1945| year = 2000 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tzk0kzg9LioC&q=Land+Title+Origins%3A+A+Tale+of+Force+and+Fraud+New+Englanders+on+the+Delaware&pg=PA242 | isbn = 1-893122-89-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | 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&q=New+Haven+Varkenskill&pg=PA48 | access-date = 2013-07-24 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last1 = Howe | first1 = 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 }}</ref>
In 1651, [[Fort Casimir]] was constructed directly across the river on the west bank of the Delaware and by 1655, the region came under the control of [[New Netherland]], which it remained until 1664 when the English overran the [[Delaware Colony|settlements on the south banks of the Delaware]]. The peninsula on the east banks became [[West Jersey]]. The town at Salem was founded in 1675 by [[John Fenwick (Quaker)|John Fenwick]], a [[Quaker]].<ref name= "Clement (1875)">Clement, John (1875). ''A sketch of the life and character of John Fenwick''. Published by Friends Historical Association. Philadelphia: Henry S. Volkmar</ref><ref name= "Shourds">Shourds, Thomas (1876). "John Fenwick." ''History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey''. Bridgeton, New Jersey, pp. 3-17 {{ISBN|0-8063-0714-5}}</ref>
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==External links==
* [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]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040416170110/http://www.users.voicenet.com/%7Ehsimmons/Finn%27s%20Point%20Website/FinnsPointHomePage.htm Finns Point National Cemetery]
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