Anders Laican (Lycon)

Peter Stebbins Craig, The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey & Cecil County, Maryland 1638-1693. Published by Studies in Swedish American Genealogy, Winter Park, Florida, 1993. Library of Congress 92-82858. pp19, 35-36.

"...Anders Nilsson Lycon (Shackamaxon, 200 pounds sterling): Anders and his brother Hans, bachelor sons of the deceased Peter Nilsson Lycon, shared their father's former plantation with one of their sisters. Although their patronymic was properly Petersson, not Nilsson, contemporary records gave them the alias of "Nelson", their father's patronymic. They married soon after 1693: Anders to Anna (parents unknown), Hans to Gertrude, daughter of John Classon (see #51-53). Both were soon to leave Shackamaxon: Anders went first to Matsunk, later to Manatawny (Amity township, Berks County) where he purchased land from his brother-in-law Mans Jonasson in 1721 (see #24). Hans went to Pennypack Creek in Dublin township where he died in 1751."

Craig, pp35-36.

"The last discovered reference to Anders Lycon is on 12-13 May 1733, when Andrew Liken and his wife Anne sold 200 acres at Manatawny, acquired in 1721 from Mans Jonasson, to Benjamin Boone of Oley township (who had married their daughter Susanna). Berks County deeds, B1:68-69. Other apparent children included Christina, Brita (who married pastor Samuel Hesselius in 1720, Burr, 258), Andrew (who moved west to Lykens Valley near Harrisburg (A. Howry Espenshade, Pennsylvania Place Names, 278), Anna, Peter, Maria and Phoebe."

Craig, p36, fn27.