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The following is an excerpt from: HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., Democrat Book and Job Office Print., Doylestown, PA, 1876 AND 1905.
"Henry Hudson (1), an Englishman in the service of the Dutch East-India company, discovered Delaware bay August 28,1609, but he made no attempt to ascend the river (2 and 3). Captain Cornelius Jacobson May ascended the river some distance in 1614, and two years afterwards Captain Hendrickson discovered the Schuylkill. For a number of years the history of the country watered by the Delaware is but a relation of the feeble struggles of Holland, Sweden and England for empire on its banks, which will engage but little of our attention. It was about this period that Bucks county was first traversed by Europeans. In 1616 three Dutch traders, setting out from Fort Nassau, now Albany, to explore the interior, struck across to the headwaters of the Delaware, down which they traveled to the Schuylkill. Here they were made prisoners by the Minquas, but were rescued by Captain Hendrickson at the mouth of that river. He was sent round from Manhattan in the Restless, and landing on the west bank of the Delaware, above the mouth of the Schuylkill, he ransomed the Dutchmen by giving in exchange for them "kettles, beads and other merchandise." As the interior of the country was wholly unexplored, it is not probable that these wanderers would leave the banks of a great river and trust their steps to an unknown wilderness."
HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA is available online at:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bucks/history/local/davis/davis01.txt