Lucas Petersson (#132) from Öland, Sweden, came to New Sweden in 1641. Around 1653 he fled the colony and moved to Dutch-controlled Fort Casimir. On 4 June 1658, Jacob Alrichs, Governor of New Amstel. ...
After the 1653 “mutiny” against Governor Printz, Axel Stille and John Wheeler fled New Sweden and may have first taken refuge near Fort Casimir (later New Amstel and finally New Castle, Delaware), th...
Although the surname of Lom died out by 1685, it is probable that Måns Svensson Lorn had more descendants than any other settler of New Sweden. He had nine children, fifty or more grandchildren and a...
Peter Larsson was given his surname Kock "cook" in Swedish, because he served in this capacity in 1641 when he was sent to New Sweden (in America) on the ship "Charitas", which took him from Stockhol...
Lars Thomson Bure from Veddinge ‧ 1644 & 1648: sailor on the sloop ‧
Lucas Persson ‧ 1644: sailor at Christina, making tobacco-casks, etc. ‧ 1648: sailor on the sloop at New Sweden ‧
Måns Nilsson Kling, lieutenant ‧ with wife, a servant girl & little child ‧ he is to recieve 40 R.D. a month, beginning May 1, 1641, granted 50 R. D. expectancy-money by Claes Fleming, as a present ‧ June 20, 1644: the officer on the Schuylkill ‧