Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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King Salamon
Appears to have been in New Amsterdam in 1654…
On Trinity Sunday, 1654, the Swedes surprised and captured Fort Casimir, which had no powder in its magazine, and named it Fort Trinity. Stuyvesant, after reporting to the Company the “infamous surrender,” was ordered to retake the fort and drive out the Swedes. Having an expected attack from New England to provide for, he postponed his expedition until the warships King Solomon, Great Christopher, and the Balance, with a French privateer, the Hope, had come over from Amsterdam
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Story_of_New_Netherland/Chapter_14