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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>{{cite web | title = Placenames of Salem County, NJ | work = West Jersey Historu Project | publisher = Salem County Historical Society | year = 1964 | url = http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/salemnames/ | accessdate = 2013-07-25}}</ref>
Tradition holds that a settlement was first planted by a Finns as part of the colony of [[New Sweden]] in 1638.<ref>{{cite web | title = Seventeenth Century Salem County, New Jersey – 1600 through 1699 | work = | publisher = Salem County Office of Archives and Records Management | date = | url = http://www.salemcountynj.gov/cmssite/downloads/departments/Archives%20Office/TIME%20LINE%20I%201600%20to%201699.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2012-07-31}}</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 | accessdate = 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 | date = | url = http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm | accessdate = 2013-07-28}}</ref> among them, the family of Anders Sinicka,
<ref>{{cite web | last = Dunlap | first = A.R. | coauthors = E. J. Moyne | title = The Finnish Language on the Delaware | publisher = Genealogia | date = | url = http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article182e.htm | accessdate = 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}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite paper | last = Vuorinen | first = Ask | title = The Delaware Finns | date = December 27, 2012 | url = http://www.askovuorinen.fi/page35.php | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2013-07-27 }}</ref> This is recalled in the name of the road running along the shore
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 | year = 1945/2000 | url = http://books.google.nl/books?id=tzk0kzg9LioC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dq=Land+Title+Origins:+A+Tale+of+Force+and+Fraud+New+Englanders+on+the+Delaware&source=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=false | isbn = 1-893122-89-1 | quote = }}</ref><ref>{{cite paper | 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 | url = http://books.google.nl/books?id=X5Ugae1GbMwC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=New+Haven+Varkenskill&source=bl&ots=ON_iYxdL4V&sig=wy5J7ozT2BXzhSUaQzqe7wQb448&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=Qf7wUY-xDoe47AaUj4GQBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=New%20Haven%20Varkenskill&f=false | accessdate = 2013-07-24 | quote = }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Howe | first = 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 = http://books.google.nl/books?id=FkMVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false | quote = }}</ref>
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