Swedish Colonial News
Volume 4, Number 6 Winter 2012 Preserving the legacy of the New Sweden Colony in America
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HISTORIC HISTORIC SITES 16 SITES FOREFATHERS 4 St. James in ARCHIVES Delaware’s New State 2 Måns Petersson Kingsessing How the SCS Historical Stake and his son at 250 6 Financed Digitizing Marker Peter Peterson Peter Craig’s Collection FOREFATHERS Kenneth S. Peterson & Robert P. Peterson MÅNS PETERSSON STAKE and his son PETER PETERSON of Maurice River, New Jersey
Måns Petersson Stake was from Åbo (Turku), 1 Finland, the eastern province of Sweden. He was a soldier, hired in Stockholm, and took part in the 10th New Sweden expedition aboard the ship Örnen .2 He was promoted to provost marshal by Governor Johan Risingh. 3 His salary was 108 riksdaler per year. “Stake” was a military nickname meaning stock, pole, pillar, etc. 4 The ramrod of a cannon was called “laddstake.” 5 His name was variously spelled Måns Staake, Månss Stacke, and Måns Persson by the Swedes. The Dutch called him Mones Pieterszen, and “Moens de Sweet.” The English referred to him as Mouns, Mounce, Staeckett, Stalker, Mounstoker and Mons Peterson, alias Stawkitt. 6 [Note: In this article names are spelled as they appear in the original documents.] The ship Örnen sailed into the Bay of New Sweden (Delaware) on 18 May 1654, and three Kenneth S. Peterson is a days later Måns was present at the seizure of Dutch Fort Casimir. Thereafter, he was stationed at Councilor, Fellow and this newly renamed Fort Trefaldighet (Trinity). 7 It was retaken by the Dutch 15 months later on 1 Forefather member of The Swedish Colonial Society and September 1655 (fort site at present New Castle, Delaware, where Chestnut Street meets the descends from several of the Delaware River). Måns signed an affidavit affirming the proper conduct of Fort Trinity’s colonial Swedes. He has three commander, Sven Skute, during its capitulation. 8 Månss Stacke and the other officers were taken daughters, Erika, Katherine prisoner on board Peter Stuyvesant’s flagship de Waegh and taken to New Amsterdam for transport and Christina Peterson. His back home. wife Barbara Bettler descends from Dutch Vice Director, by the Brooklyn minister Henricus Selyns on Niccassius DeSille, who New Amsterdam wrested control of Swedish While waiting for the next Dutch ship back Peter Stuyvesant’s bowery (today St. Mark’s in Fort Trinity from Kenneth’s to Europe, Måns was persuaded to remain in the Bowery of Lower Manhattan). In the same ancestor, Måns Petersson New Amsterdam. He lived there for five years year, Måns was one of the petitioners requesting Stake (Peterson). Kenneth S. owning a house and a bowery. 9 In 1660 / 1661 to pay their taxes in sewant (Indian shell Peterson is an Industrial Måns became one of the founders of the new money) instead of the difficult-to-obtain Specialist at Navy Lakehurst settlement of Harlem. 10 He went in partnership beaver pelts. in the Carrier Launch and with a Swede, Jan Cogu, receiving half of Jan’s James Riker, in his History of Harlem , said Recovery programs and lives allotted land with house, barn, etc., for 125 that “Mones Petersen was gifted by nature and in Ocean County, New guilders in exchange for a half-interest in a lime much reliance was placed upon his judgment. Jersey. kiln, a canoe and a balance in cash. In He soon removed to Elizabethtown, New November 1662 Måns was appointed one of Jersey, taking the oath of allegiance to the new the two “Inspectors of Fences.” In 1663 Måns, English government, February 19, 1666.” 13 Robert P. Peterson is a along with two Swedes, three Norwegians and His son Peter was born there in 1667. 10th generation descendant seven other men, was inducted into the 3rd of Måns Petersson Stake and Harlem militia, to stand guard against an attack Rejoins Swedes on the a retired Senior Research from the Esopus Indians. 11 The threat never Delaware River Chemist at American came as Stuyvesant put an end to this war Cyanamid Company. On 29 April 1671 Måns purchased Israel across the Hudson River (at today’s Kingston, 14 He lives in Mullica Hill, Helm’s Calcoon Hook property. Calcoon Gloucester County, New N. Y.). Hook became part of Darby Township, Jersey, with his wife of 50 On 24 June 1663 Måns married the widow Chester County in the time of Proprietor Penn years, Eleanor, nee Suffern. of Adam Dircksen, Magdalentje Lamberts van and today is within the boroughs of Folcroft They have two daughters, Tellickhuysen of Steinfurt, Germany. 12 She had Ginny and JoAnn. a young daughter, Grietie. They were married continued on page 8
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Swedish Colonial News 3 HISTORIC SITES St. James in Kingsessing at 250
This past summer the congregation of St. dilapidated condition of Gloria Dei, after a four- James in Southwest Philadelphia, in the area and-a-half-year vacancy had to be first addressed. known as Kingsessing, celebrated 250 years of The ministry of Gabriel Falk had been very short ministry in the Flemish bond stone building that due to his conviction by the Court of was consecrated on the Festival of the “defamation of character” for spreading an ill- Transfiguration, August 6, 1762, by the Rev. Dr. founded rumor about the wife of a prominent Carl Magnus Wrangel. Wrangel was a member. Then the long-time dutiful supervisor remarkable charismatic preacher and Senior of the America Mission, Jesper Svedberg, bishop Pastor of Gloria Dei Church in Wicacå South of Skara died. His duties were transferred to the Philadelphia from 1759-1768. Archbishop of Uppsala and his Consistory. All of While the congregation itself dates from this took time and the repairs were more 1760, the people of Ammansland (Ridley extensive and costly than had been at first realized. Thus nothing came of this original 1738 initiative until the arrival of Carl Magnus Wrangel in 1759. He founded a parochial school at Kingsessing that only used the English language. This was especially important since there were no public schools at the time and such a church day N O
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Sunday to worship in Kingsessing. During the Revolutionary War, British troops were quartered inside Gloria Dei and it was unfit for worship. The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth During the middle of the 19th century the area became a of Pennsylvania issued a citation to St. James Church well-to-do suburb and the congregation grew so much that transepts, a chancel, and a tower were added to the building of Kingsessing (Old Swedes) in celebration of its 250th (1854-59). A separate building was also erected for the Sunday Anniversary. It states in part, “St. James has been School that now serves as the rectory. Mr. Thomas Sparks, a blessed with ministers and lay people who strive to wealthy lead foundry owner and Swedish descendant gave live in a manner that gives testimony to their spiritual money for the building of a school for girls and infants in 1865 beliefs. Their faith, determination, generosity and and this was enlarged as a Sunday School facility in 1904. stewardship have enabled the church to become a In 1962 at the 200th Anniversary of the building, the Swedish Colonial Society provided a new cornerstone of red vital and inspiring presence in their community.” Swedish granite since the original one had been lost in the St. James was also pleased to receive a letter of many rebuildings. The new cornerstone features an incised seal congratulations from President Obama that stated in of the Archdiocese of Uppsala under whose authority Carl part, “places of worship have been a cornerstone of Magnus Wrangel came to Pennsylvania. Three rectors served from 1857-1966; Dr. Charles Maison our communities. On this occasion, we are reminded (1857-1893), Rev. S. Lord Gilberson (1893-1930), and the of the abiding truth that each of us has the power to Rev. James Gilbert 1930-1966. Today the church, the Sparks create a better world for ourselves and our children building, the large cemetery and the rectory occupy an entire when we do God’s work here on earth.” city block between Woodland Avenue from 68th to 69th St. and bounded by Paschal Avenue. It is an oasis of hope and – Fred Davidson spiritual strength in an impoverished neighborhood. Although today many of its members come from the Caribbean and West Africa, every Advent a Lucia fest is held. N O S R E T E P
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interest nearly everyone with New Sweden How the SCS ancestry. Unfortunately the material is nearly Financed Digitizing inaccessible since it is housed in the Archives of the Lutheran Seminary at Philadelphia in Mt. Peter Craig’s Collection Airy. The two part-time archivists also have teaching duties and other commitments, Last January the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde- consequently the Archives are open only Cynthia Forde-Beatty Beatty wrote an e-mail to members: “We need Wednesday and Friday afternoons. The After raising a family of five three persons to donate one thousand dollars Swedish Colonial Society has determined that in Iowa, I moved to Texas in apiece, three persons to donate five hundred providing access to the materials over the 1981 and became a parish dollars and five persons to donate a hundred internet would be more beneficial than pastor in the ELCA. While dollars each, to match a $5,000 donation to extending the Archive’s hours, especially since enjoying ministry, I earned doctoral degrees in spirituality digitize the Craig Collection.” Within 72 hours the papers and ink have already begun to and pastoral counseling. In most of the funds had been raised through the yellow, fade, and become brittle. In pursuit of 1998 a son died of Leukemia; generosity of the following faithful members of this goal, the Society has, through I retired. My grief work was the Swedish Colonial Society: Ellen Rye, Nagel contributions, been able to photograph about writing a historical fiction, & Sally Bridwell, Herb and Zofia Rambo, 2000 of these “family group sheets.” That The Spirit in the South , stories Michael and Jill D’Andrea, John Tepe, Al effort was so satisfactory that a second of ten generations of my Capotosto, Ed Root, Ron and Cynthia Forde- contribution is enabling the photography to grandmothers, led me to Beatty and an anonymous donor. This was the continue. a more exciting than fiction inception of the digitization project to protect The next step is to enable access on-line, new life with Ron Beatty: the Craig Collection of historical and but that endeavor needs professional skills not God works in surprising ways. genealogical materials. possessed by our volunteers. Herb Rambo has Equally imaginative is the on-going enlisted a highly qualified website designer, Ronald S. Beatty develop by the Society to provide access to all William Whitcraft, who is redesigning our web I was born in 1947 in Iowa of this material to members and others. The site at
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4. Catalog the photographs of the family 4. Deterioration of the materials would be group sheets from the Craig Collection significantly reduced when archived and and add them to the web site as “read- infrequently handled. only” PDF files. 5. An interactive web site would reduce the 5. Expand the “finding guides” to more amount of time that volunteers now spend comprehensively list allied families. with organizational duties, allowing them Digitize the photographs (OCR is not to use the time to better advantage for developed for handwriting, so typing is research and education. required). 6. Continue photography and digitization of Until this valuable collection and unique documents and rare books. information becomes readily available via the web, it is doomed to gather dust in the Benefits: basement archives stacks where it is nearly 1. Educational and historical uses of this inaccessible. unique material would excite and delight More recently, Rev. Cynthia Forde-Beatty students and scholars if it were more has become registered to submit grant requests widely available. The excitement to the Federal Government. Ron Beatty has stemming from a personal connection to written another grant proposing to purchase a history is a huge motivation for members book scanner to continue the digitization of of The Swedish Colonial Society. We wish both the Craig Collection and other unique to spread that excitement and knowledge. bound materials housed at the Lutheran 2. Forefather applications require proof of a Seminary Archives in Mt. Airy. line of descent from a Colonial Swedish Matching funds are required for forefather. This material often includes a most Federal grants, so we wealth of research, photocopies of original hope to issue another documents, and sometimes interesting request for funds. biographical sketches. Educational uses of The guiding vision this material abound, and it would for this effort is to become widely available if on-line. In make available on-line
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and Glenolden in Delaware County, this article are those found in the original Pennsylvania. Mounce Peterson’s property is documents. KSP] The deed states: “Mounce located a little upstream on Darby Creek from Peterson by a Deed of Gift dated the thirteenth the Morton Homestead log house just beyond day of March 1695, did give unto the aforesaid the Morton Morton “MM” red brick house in Peter Peterson all the Lands, Buildings and Norwood Borough. Mounce owned a total of Improvements that were belonging to him, the 295 acres at various places within the township. said Mounce Peterson. The said Deed of Gift There is no evidence that Magdalena and was acknowledged in open court the Grietie accompanied Måns and young Peter to fourteenth day of March 1695.” the Delaware River. After 4 July 1697 Måns Peterson, among Court records of the Upland and Chester others, pledged 12 shillings towards the Courts show that Måns Stake was a juror 14 support of the new pastor, Andreas Rudman. 23 times, a plaintiff 12 times, a defendant 14 times Pastor Rudman’s census of August/September and a witness three times. Måns was a juror in 1697 listed the household of Måns Petersson, the case of Pastor Jacobus Fabritius, Plaintiff, which included his son Peter and Peter’s wife versus Dunck Williams for debt, 15 and of Anna Fisk, their children Magdalin, age 5, Jacobus Fabritius versus Peter Erickson for Peter, age 2 and Hendrick. Also in the defamation. 16 As a defendant, Måns Stake was household was a foster child, age 4, and old charged with slander by Morten Mortense Nils Matsson (buried 15 March 1701). 24 senio r17 and John Hendrickson. 18 As a plaintiff, No will or inventory of the estate of Måns Stake charged Andries Boon with leaving Mounce Peterson has been found so it appears his fence open resulting in damages from that his 1695 “Deed of Gift” was his intended Andries’ livestock. He charged Hans Urian for last will. As Måns shared his home with his only stealing his nails from his carpenters. At the child, Peter, all monies and personal Chester County Court session of 27 June possessions would have naturally passed 1683, Mons Stawkitt was among the directly to him. Måns Peterson suddenly 17–member Grand Inquest. William Penn, disappears from the records following the 1697 Governor and Proprietor, was present. 19 church census, leading Dr. Peter S. Craig to Mons Stawkett held minor offices in the conclude that he died shortly thereafter, circa Darby area during Penn’s governorship, one of 1698. Perhaps Måns could not survive “the them being the “Overseer of the King’s coldest and severest winter which the people Highway” in 1682. His portion of road was had ever felt” as described by Peter Kalm of the from Amosland to the Swede’s Mill (Rt. 13, winter of 1697/98. 25 Chester Pike). He was also tax collector in that area in 1684 which benefited the courthouse Peter Peterson and prison at Chester. In August 1684 Måns Peter Peterson arrived among the Swedes Petersson Stake is listed as a member of the on the Delaware River with his father at age Swedes’ church at Tinicum. 20 However, that four. 26 He discontinued the use of “Stake” in congregation came to an end in 1688 due to his name after his father died. 27 In 1687 Peter the death of its pastor, Lars Lock. 21 Those was a witness in court over the true ownership members were then transferred 12 English of a horse 28 and the unlawful shooting of a miles upriver to the log church at Wicaco neighbor’s hog. He also attested he witnessed (Lenape “Wachquacoing”), present South “Mort Mortson” strike his father, Måns, with a Philadelphia. The Wicaco church was a paddle. 29 In 1688 Peter was on a jury in a converted log-blockhouse built in 1677 on the dispute between two Englishmen; one accused present grounds of Gloria Dei and stood south the other of stealing ten pounds, two gold just a few feet of the present brick church rings, a watch, a silver spoon and a piece-of- completed in 1700. Måns Staake was among eight. the 39 surviving “old Swedes and Finns from About 1691 Peter married Anna Fisk, the the fatherland” listed in the 1693 church eldest daughter of Caspar Fisk and Margaret census. Danielsson. 30 Caspar Fisk / Fish was a Wicaco On 14 March 1695 Mounce Petterson churchwarden (Gloria Dei) in the 1690’s and gifted his possessions to his son Peter at Gloria Dei in 1702. Margaret was the Petterson. 22 [Note: The name spellings used in daughter of New Sweden soldier and tailor
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Gustav Danielsson and wife Anna Lom. Casper In September 1697 Peter Stake was paid Fisk was the son of soldier Johan Fisk, alias 16 shillings by the Wicaco church for the care Johan Skovel, who arrived in New Sweden in of old Nils Matsson. 32 On 9 February 1698, 1648. Pastor Rudman paid Peter the balance of 30 In 1696 the Grand Inquest of Chester shillings due for that care. Thereafter, Mårten County called in Peter Peterson and Jacobus Mårtensson, Jr. , took over the support of Nils Vanculine of Ridley to answer for running a Matsson. 33 horse-race for a wager. They pleaded guilty, In 1700 Peter Peterson was greatly were fined five shillings and court costs, then disappointed that the new church, Gloria Dei, discharged and commanded to do so no more. 31 continued on page 10
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had not been built closer to his home on the Maurice River, Salem County, glebe land at Passayungh (east bank of the New Jersey 34 Schuylkill River, South Philadelphia). As a Peter Peterson and family acquired a result he quit the Wicaco congregation and sawmill and 920 acres of land on the Maurice joined with the Anglicans at St. Paul’s in River and Dividing Creek in Salem County, Chester. 35 In May 1703 Peter Peterson New Jersey (now Cumberland County). 40 The represented Morton Mortonson (Senior) as the sawmill was on Menantico Creek located today administrator of his will. 36 In 1707 he was within Millville city limits. 41 They settled on the Supervisor of Highways. On 1 June 1709 Peter east bank of Maurice River just above its Peterson was amongst the signers of a mouth, on the first solid ground, now complaint against Secretary James Logan. 37 Leesburg. 42 He named it “Chester town,” Not receiving satisfaction for the land-clipping apparently after his Pennsylvania hometown. 43 and “overplus” tax increases, Peter decided to Peter Peterson was described in the book New sell his property and move to New Jersey. He Jersey Genesis as “one of the best of his people.” sold his lands in two parcels: one in February In 1730 Peter sold 45 acres of land to John 38 1711 to Obadiah Bonsal, and in November Seelye. On 28 April 1733 he took out a 1711 he sold the rest to Morton Mortonson mortgage. 44 Later that year on 18 September 39 and Mathias Netzelius. 1733 Peter made out his last will and testament. 45 Two years later, about the month
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of September 1735, Peter Peterson passed away. 46 He was 4. Aaron, born 1699/1700 at Calcoon Hook, and died by buried by the river on his property which later became the 1736 at Maurice River, New Jersey. burial ground for other Swedes. 47 It appears Pastor Peter 5. Rebecca, born ca. 1702 at Calcoon Hook, married Tranberg did the funeral service as he was due 12 shillings as (unknown) Scull at Maurice River, New Jersey. listed in the probate account of Peter Peterson. Anna outlived 6. Gabriel, baptized 10 January 1705 at St. Paul’s Church, her husband Peter by many years, passing away in 1759. 48 Chester, married Elizabeth, maiden name unknown, at Maurice River. One son, Aaron, is known. Children of Peter Peterson and Anna Fish 49 7. John, born ca. 1706 at Calcoon Hook, married Christina 1. Modlena, born 1692 at Calcoon Hook, married Andrew Erickson, his niece, ca. 1746, and died before 25 August Erickson, son of Peter Ericksson, before 1720 at Maurice 1759 at Maurice River. They had daughters Anna and River, New Jersey. Their children were: Andrew, Samuel, Priscilla. Christina, Sarah, and Rebecca. 8. Mathias, born 1708-1710 at Calcoon Hook, married Mary 2. Peter, Jr., born 1695 at Calcoon Hook, unmarried, and Robbins at Maurice River, New Jersey, ca. 1736, and died died 1734 at Maurice River, New Jersey. by 24 October 1738. 3. Hendrick (Henry), born 1697 at Calcoon Hook, married 9. Christina, born ca. 1712, probably at Maurice River, Mary, maiden name unknown, and died before 30 October New Jersey. 1741 at Maurice River, New Jersey. The names of their 10. Eleanor, born ca. 1714, Maurice River, New Jersey. children are unknown. 11. Susannah, born ca. 1716, married John Steelman.
1 First Book of Records of the Dutch Reformed 1681, page 61. 35 Confirmed by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig. Church of Brooklyn, New York, as listed in the 18 Record of the Courts of Chester County, 36 Chester County, Pennsylvania deed book A, Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697, page 259. page 340, 24 May 1703. 1897, page 141. 19 Ibid. pages 25, 26. 37 Craig, Peter Stebbins and Williams, Kim-Eric, 2 Craig, Peter Stebbins, New Sweden Settlers, 20 Craig, Peter Stebbins and Williams, Kim-Eric, Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in part 5, page 9 as printed in Swedish American Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania, Vol. 3, page 120; Clay, Jehu Genealogist, Vol. 18, 1998. Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, page 80. Curtis, Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware, 3 Johnson, Amandus, The Swedish Settlements on 21 Ibid. page 173, footnote #3. page 110. the Delaware, page 716. 22 Record of the Courts of Chester County, 38 Chester County, Pennsylvania deed book I (or 4 Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies; Pennsylvania, 1681-1697, page 343; Chester J), page 411, 9 Feb. 1711. Johansson, Carl-Erik, Cradled in Sweden; County, Pennsylvania deed book I (or J) page 39 Chester County, Pennsylvania deed book C, Email conversations with Hans Ling, Uppsala, 411, 9 Feb. 1711. page 200, 28 Nov. 1711. Sweden, Legal Advisor to the National 23 Craig, Peter Stebbins and Williams, Kim-Eric, 40 Cumberland County, New Jersey deeds, 36-3, Heritage Board, Stockholm (retired), 5, 6 Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in 36-7, March 1818. September 2011. Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, page 36. 41 Stratford, Dorothy A. , Salem County, New 5 Hans Ling. 24 Ibid. page 52. Jersey Loan Office Records, Book 1, page 121 6 My preference throughout the article is to 25 Kalm, Peter, Travels Into North America , page as reproduced in The Genealogical Magazine spell names as they appear in the legal and 264. of New Jersey, January 1979. ecclesiastical record of the time and culture in 26 Craig, Peter Stebbins, The 1693 Census of the 42 Cushing and Sheppard, History of Gloucester, which they were used. This gives a feel of Swedes On The Delaware, page 40. As he was Salem and Cumberland Counties New Jersey, authenticity. born in 1667 and his father purchased the page 514. 7 See note #2. Calcoon Hook property, I deduce Peter 43 Salem County, New Jersey will, Lib. 5, page 8 Weslager, C. A. , A Ruse De Guerre and the Peterson was 4 years old when he came to the 482, Errickson, Andrew Sr. , January 1747. Fall of New Sweden, page 20. Delaware River settlement. 44 Stratford, Dorothy A. , Salem County, New 9 Evjen, John O. , Scandinavian Immigrants in 27 Ibid. “Stake” is not found associated with Jersey Loan Office Records, Book 1, page 121 New York, 1630-1674 , page 341. Peter Peterson’s name after 1698. as reproduced in The Genealogical Magazine 10 Riker, James, Revised History of Harlem, page 28 Record of the Courts of Chester County, of New Jersey, January 1979. 182-3. Pennsylvania, 1681-1697, pages 92, 93. 45 Salem County, New Jersey will, 490 Q, 11 Ibid. page 201. 29 Ibid. page 101. Peterson, Peter, 18 September 1733. 12 Ibid. page 198. 30 Craig, Peter Stebbins, The 1693 Census of the 46 Ibid. Proved 18 October 1735. 13 Ibid. page 225. Swedes On The Delaware, pages 40, 63. 47 Cushing and Sheppard, New Jersey Genesis; 14 Chester County, Pennsylvania deed book C, 31 Record of the Courts of Chester County, History of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland page 200. Pennsylvania, 1681-1697, page 380. Counties New Jersey, page 717. 15 Record of the Courts of Chester County, 32 Craig, Peter Stebbins and Williams, Kim-Eric, 48 Cumberland County, New Jersey inventory, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 , page 15. Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Peterson, Ann, 192F, 1759. 16 Ibid, page 19. Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, page 124. 49 From the records of and confirmed by Dr. 17 Mårten Mårtensson, Sr. , The Record of the 33 Ibid. page 128. Peter Stebbins Craig, F. A. S. G. Court At Upland, in Pennsylvania, 1676 to 34 Ibid. pages 95-101.
Swedish Colonial News 11 FOREFATHERS Johan Enander, a Culture Bearer for Swedish America
Amandus Johnson credited his career as a Hemlandet, det Gamla och det Nya, made clear historian of Swedish America to Johan Alfred his intention to perpetuate love and Enander (1842-1910). Johnson had in mind a understanding in his readers for both Sweden, specific moment of inspiration—Enander’s the old homeland, and the United States, the speech to Gustavus Adolphus College’s Svenska new one. Hasselquist wanted them to be proud Förbundet (The Swedish Union) in 1903, while of their new land, but never to forget their Johnson was an undergraduate there. It was native language and their country of birth. As Enander’s presentation of Swedish Hemlandet was tied closely to the Augustana contributions to world and American Lutheran Synod, Hasselquist wanted his readers civilization that determined Johnson to study to remain—or to become—good Swedish and write about similar topics, beginning with Lutherans. Swedish Settlements on the Delaware (1911). Or Hemlandet and a handful of other Swedish- so Johnson remembered years later in an language newspapers filled a vital need for the autobiographical fragment. immigrant communities of the Midwestern He was not alone in owing an inspirational United States in the second half of the 19th debt to Johan Enander. In the last quarter of century. Enander was a part of the Swedish the 19th century and into the 20th, if Enander “Great Migration” (1851-1940). By 1869, was not the most important popularizer and more than 88,000 Swedes had left home and by proselytizer for Swedish and Swedish-American 1940, that total would swell to more than 1.1 history and culture in the United States, he was million, less about 205,000 who eventually Richard Waldron worked for the New Jersey one of a handful of men whose mission was to returned to Sweden. People left Sweden for a Historical Commission inculcate a love for things Swedish in variety of reasons. Many of the more than from 1973 to 1999, and generations of immigrants and their children, 32,000 who left when Enander did in 1869 fled was the Commission’s and explain the United States and its history, the consequences of disastrous harvests in the executive director from society, and institutions to the country’s new two previous years. Others came to the US 1991 to 1999. He was the Swedish citizens. because of some powerful attraction here – director of the American Enander was born in Härja parish, maybe cheap western land, or a factory job, or Swedish Historical Museum Västergötland, on May 22, 1842. While he was an opportunity to earn a divinity degree at from 1999 through 2004. still quite young he began his career as a writer, an American college. Hemlandet and its His major research interest contributing articles to Swedish newspapers and competitors helped the Swedish newcomers to is the history of Swedish publishing a history of Mormonism in 1863. adjust to life in their new home and, while it America from the 17th to the 20th century. His He came to the United States in 1869 and never lost its association with the Augustana ongoing project is a history enrolled at Augustana Seminary in Paxton, Synod, Enander gradually made Hemlandet of the Church of Sweden’s Illinois. He intended to become a Lutheran more secular and addressed issues and concerns mission to the Delaware minister, but when the editor of the influential it had ignored before his time as editor. In fact, Valley from the 1690s to Swedish-language newspaper Hemlandet (The after Enander and a colleague purchased the the 1780s. His most recent Homeland) resigned, the paper’s founder, the newspaper it proudly proclaimed itself to be “a publication is “‘A True Reverend T. N. Hasselquist, aware of Enander’s Republican political newspaper for the Swedish Servant of the Lord’: journalism experience, secured the editorship nationality in the United States.” Nils Collin, the Church of for him. At this time, Enander was only twenty- But Johan Enander was more to his people Sweden, and the American seven years old and had completed just one than a journalist with a particular political Revolution in Gloucester term of theological study. affection. As a speaker and a writer, especially as County,” New Jersey History 126 (Number 1, 2011): Hasselquist founded Hemlandet in 1855 a self-made historian, Enander was a link 96-103. “to free our people from immoral and between the Swedish immigrant’s past and unchurchly papers.” The full name of the paper; present. It is true that every foreign language
12 Swedish Colonial News Richard Waldron newspaper that served or serves now an In 1889, Enander was a founder of the immigrant community performs that function. nation’s first historical organization dedicated But after about 1880, for Swedish immigrants to preserving the history of Swedish America, to the US, Enander was pre-eminent. the Swedish-American Historical Society, which Not only was he invited to speak faded into inactivity. When prominent at smaller gatherings like Swedish Americans tried again, Amandus Johnson’s at in 1905 founding the Gustavus Adolphus in 1903, Swedish Historical Society he was a or the featured of America, Enander was speaker at events that its first regularly- drew big crowds to elected president. the centers of His reputation as Swedish America in a spokesperson for the Midwest: the Swedish culture commemoration in the United of New Sweden’s States earned 250th anniversary him appointment at Minneapolis as the US in 1888, the ambassador to dedication of a Denmark in statue of Carl 1889, but ill Linnaeus in health kept him Chicago in 1891, from taking up and “Sweden Day” the post. He at the Columbian received honors Exposition in Chicago and awards in 1893. Maybe those who estimated crowds on those occasions exaggerated when they claimed audiences of up to 50,000 enthusiastic listeners. But the point is that in gatherings small and large, on occasions of great and minor import, all across Swedish America, the voice people heard so often was Johan Enander’s. While he edited Hemlandet in the 1870s (along with two other periodicals at the same time) he wrote and published a five-part history of the United States, Forenta Staternas historia in recognition of his work and his reputation. (1873-80), in Swedish because that was the Augustana College awarded him an honorary language his people read. In fact, as far as I can doctorate in 1892 (the reason people often tell he published only in Swedish and spoke at addressed him as “Dr. Enander”), and Sweden’s public events only in Swedish. The historian H. King Oscar II presented him with the Litteris et Arnold Barton thought he chose to use Swedish Artibus Medal in 1905. In 1910, the year of his exclusively “as tribute to his beloved Sweden.” death, the Swedish Academy awarded him five When he published a collection of his writings hundred crowns “in consideration of his literary and speeches in 1892 ( Valda skrifter, or achievements in general.” Collected Works or Writings) , the book was in Johan Enander’s message over a forty-year Swedish. Another writer, closer to Enander in career as both a builder and a bearer of Swedish- time, claimed that he never acquired English American culture (meaning he helped to shape “and was therefore not a true exemplar of the it and he helped to present it) was consistent Swedish-American citizen, but, showing little and of two major elements. First was that Johan Alfred Enander (c. 1905) receptiveness to American influences, remained PHOTO: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, a fine type of the ultra-patriotic Swede.” continued on page 14 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, ROCK ISLAND, IL (C-L00412)
Swedish Colonial News 13 FOREFATHERS from page 13 Richard Waldron
Swedes and other Nordic peoples, but especially Note on Sources: To my knowledge there Swedes, were well qualified to become is not a full-scale biography of Johan Enander in Americans because of their love for and history English or Swedish. I learned about him in of freedom. He even maintained that in some pieces in other peoples’ work. Readers who way this love of freedom had worked its way would like a complete bibliography of my into English and then American institutions via sources should request one from Magna Carta, the charter of liberties the
14 Swedish Colonial News HISTORIC SITES Herbert R. Rambo Rambo Apple Friendship Project
While Riley reminisces about two Hosiers skipping school to feast in a Rambo apple For just two truant lads like we, orchard many years ago, Rambo apple trees in “ the 21st century have been ON THE MOVE. when Autumn shakes the rambo-tree, Since spring, Rambo apple trees have been given as a gift to Swedish royalty and have been There’s enough for you and enough for me, planted at the Swedish ambassador’s residence It’s a long, sweet way across the orchard ! in Washington, DC. In Connecticut, more ” Rambo apples trees were planted on a single – James Whitcomb Riley day than ever before, and at Old World Wisconsin the trees nicknamed the “Rambo In America, there have been Rambo tree Twins” survived a major tornado! plantings at many locations including “The Rambo Apple Friendship Project is Lindsborg, Kansas and Minot, North Dakota. an initiative of the Society to honor all Swedish Recently, six trees, one for each Vasa Lodge in immigrants by planting trees as living the state, were planted at the newly established memorials to those who left Sweden for a new Paul Ljunggren Orchard in Vasa Park, life in America,” explains SCS Governor Meriden, Connecticut. Margaret S. Bridwell. It has also been adopted Two Swedish apple trees that were planted as an official program by the Order of Vasa, the several years ago by the Swedish American Swedish fraternal organization. Rambo apple Historical Society of Wisconsin survived a tree seeds were among the seeds brought to the tornado last June. The trees were planted as a New Sweden Colony in the new world in 1640 tribute to Swedish immigrants who settled in by Peter Gunnarsson who used Rambo as his Wisconsin and are popularly referred to as the surname (See Peter Kalm’s Journal). “Rambo Twins” by the park’s staff. They have Her Royal Highness Crown Princess already attained a height in excess of six feet Victoria and Prince Daniel have accepted the and displayed several blossoms this spring. Society’s gift of a Rambo apple tree for the Here is the account of their rough experience garden at Haga Palace, their residence in at Old World Wisconsin as reported by Stockholm. This is one of ten Rambo trees Nordstjernan… in an article entitled Survival of grown from American scions sent to Sweden the Fittest: “A pair of recently planted apple for grafting to Swedish root stock, and trees, descended from a species brought from subjected to 12-month quarantine. His Majesty Sweden to the New World by a member of the King Carl XVI Gustaf has provided the funding New Sweden Colony, survived a class two for Swedish expenses. The resultant saplings tornado that caused severe damage to the have been entrusted to the care of prominent timber growth at Old World Wisconsin historic Swedish Master Gardener Lars Krantz at the site and to residences in a neighboring famous Wij Gardens in Ockelbo. community last June. Damage was so extensive Last spring, Swedish Ambassador Jonas at Old World Wisconsin site that more than and Eva Hafström hosted a small gathering, 2000 trees were flattened or destroyed and and the Society presented two Rambo apple several structures damaged.” saplings for the Ambassador’s residence. “The remarkable survival of the Rambo Governor Bridwell was joined by Friendship apple trees in the face of winds in excess of 100 Chair Herbert and Zofia Rambo and by Society miles per hour was in sharp contrast to Genealogists Ronald S. Beatty and the Rev. Dr. conditions in other parts of the park, including Cynthia Forde Beatty, both of whom are the Visitor’s Green where the Midsummer members of the Rambo family. During the visit celebration normally takes place. Arial photos the Beattys presented the new five volume revealed that the area was covered with fallen edition of the “The Rambo Family Tree” to tree trunks and damaged picnic benches. In the supplement the original one volume edition nearby community of Eagle, Wisconsin, dozens currently in the Embassy Library. of homes were destroyed.”
Swedish Colonial News 15 HISTORIC SITES Delaware’s New State Historical Marker Recognizes Early Settlers of New Jersey
July 13th, Wilmington—In a late-day Finland at the time they emigrated), but also Aleasa Hogate, SCS ceremony on Delaware’s Rt 9, just one mile included people of English, Dutch, Holstein, Forefather member, north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, or German origin, a multicultural community descendant of Olaf Dalbo, son of Anders Larsson Martha Rogers, Pennsville Historical Society that evolved into the American melting pot.) Dalbo and his wife, and Aleasa Hogate, SCS recording secretary, of According to a pew list of the congregation, Elisabeth, the widow of Pennsville, NJ witnessed another recognition about 50% of the congregants came from New Matts Hanson; SCS of the role the people from New Jersey played Castle County, 10% from Cecil County, Recording Secretary and in the development of the Delaware Valley Maryland, and 40% came by boat from across Preservation Committee culture, when Delaware’s Senator Margaret the Delaware River in New Jersey, a dangerous member; New Sweden Rose Henry and a number of other dignitaries commute in stormy weather. Colonial Farmstead dedicated a newly cast historical marker that The church served its congregation until, Trustee; designed and commemorates the existence of the Crane under the leadership of a new pastor, Rev. Eric facilitated the erection of Hook Church where the early Swedish and Bjork, the congregation of Crane Hook the New Sweden Heritage Finnish settlers attended. Church, built Holy Trinity Church in 1697-99. Monument in Pennsville, NJ in 2004, her home town; The marker recognizes the fact that, in The historical marker will help preserve the lectures on Life in New 1667, a log blockhouse church was built at legacy that the people from New Jersey were Sweden Colony in the Crane Hook on the Delaware River below the part of the oldest Christian congregation in persona of her ancestor Christina River. It was possible for this church Delaware — Holy Trinity “Old Swedes” Elisabeth; coordinated the to be built because Swedish Lutherans had Church, one of Delaware’s historic treasures Fort Elfsborg Search and been granted the religious freedom to erect and a national landmark. the volunteer Education their own church by William Penn in 2013 is the 375th anniversary of the director and VP of New 1664. The worshipers were primarily Swedes founding of New Sweden Colony. Plans are Sweden Centre in and Finnish-Swedes (Sweden controlled underway for a Royal visit and other activities Wilmington, Delaware. throughout the Delaware Valley. The members from New Jersey who first attended Crane Hook Church and helped build Holy Trinity Church established their own church in 1714, St. George’s Church at the corner of Church Landing Road in Pennsville, NJ. On August 24th, 2013 St. George’s Church is planning a “kick of f” for their 300th anniversary celebration. For information contact
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Swedish Colonial News 17 NEW MEMBERS Peg Berich & Beverly Walker
FAMILY MEMBERS ______Kenneth & Linda Alexy, Philadelphia, PA Matthew B. Enochs & Family, Edinburgh, IN Cordel & Debby Avery, Greenville, NC Timothy J. Lilligren & Family, Manhattan Beach, CA Norma J. Boyson & Family, Leominster, MA Margaret Jones Lord & Family, Moorestown, NJ Cynthia Seymour Brown & Family, Winter Haven, FL Kyle Richard Mason & Family, Medford, NJ Anne Quinn Cramer, Matthew Bonn & Family, Carlsbad, CA
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ______Dr. Michael L. Friend, Meridian, IN Maud R. Martin, Edinburgh, IN Stefanie Marie Glowiak, Manhattan, KS Dr. Richard D. Parker, Jamestown, NC Jason Gorman, Okmulgee, OK Harry Schaeffer, National Park, NJ Michael Helms, Raleigh, NC Richard A. Smallwood, Sr., Huntsville, AL Tom Hixson, San Francisco, CA Scott Brice Stephens, Alexandria, VA Margie Hoff, Merced, CA Joseph Stolarski, Kingwood, TX Michael Krasulski, Philadelphia, PA David MacLeod Taylor, Wallingford, PA Claire Kyllingstad, Fullerton, CA Leslie Anne Taylor, Swarthmore, PA Kathleen L. Malis, Park Forest, IL Wendy Morgan Taylor, Bellevue, WA Sue Yocum, Medford, NJ LIFE MEMBERS ______Kiira Kristine Sisman, Cypress, TX Peg Berich is the Registrar of The Swedish Colonial Society. She is also Omer Austin Sisman, Cypress, TX a member of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church, where she conducts genealogy searches. She resides in Philadelphia, PA, but is originally from Minnesota, a Swedish/Finnish descendent of the great 19th Century Scandinavian great migration.
NEW FOREFATHER MEMBERS ______Active members of the Swedish Colonial Society may apply for recognition as “Forefather Members” if they can prove descent from Swedish colonists arriving in the United States prior to the Treaty of Paris, marking the close of the Revolutionary War, in 1783. Application forms may be obtained from the SCS website
Rosemary Heinze , of Haddonfield NJ, descends from Debbie Rowland Avery , of Greeneville NC, descends from Marten Martensson Johan Andersson Stalkofta (Stalcop) and Christina Carlsdotter Mathew Brett Enochs , of Eldorado Hills, CA, descends Phyllis Mullus , of Cramerton, NC, descends from Johan from Garret Enochson and Gertrude Stressinger Enochson Andersson Stalkofta (Stalcop) and Christina Carlsdotter Velna Elizabeth Sanders , of Asheboro, NC, descends from Omar Austin Sisman , of Cypress, TX, descends from Peter Hans Mansson and Ella Stille Yocum Mansso Gunnarsson Rambo and Britta Matsdotter Rambo David Krough , of Woodbridge, VA, descends from Anders Kiira Sisman , of Cypress, TX, descends from Peter Larsson Dalbo and his wife the widow Elizabeth Hansson Gunnarsson Rambo and Brita Matsdotter Rambo Paul McCleod Taylor , of New York, NY, descends from Kyle R. Mason , of Medford, NJ, descends from Peter Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Svendotter Nilsson Gunnarsson Rambo and Britta Matsdotter Rambo Wendy Morgan Taylor , of Bellevue, WA, descends from Stefanie Marie Glowiak , of Manhattan, KS, descends from Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Svendotter Nilsson Anders Bengtsson and Gertrude Rambo Bengtsson Leslie Anne Taylor , of Swarthmore, PA, descends from Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Svendotter Nilsson Beverly Walker is Curator of the Archives. She is a graduate of Temple Jane Gurry Buckman , of Houston, TX, descends from University and Arcadia University and a former High School English teacher, Anders Bengtsson and Gertrude Rambo Bengtsson and has spent the last 25 years working in Urban Development. She serves Peter Jay Buckman , of Houston, TX, descends from as the Vice President of the Letitia Penn Doll Club and has been involved Anders Bengtsson and Gertrude Rambo Bengtsson with the Germantown Historical Society and the Darby Preservation Group. Beverly is a descendant of Forefather Peter Yocum of Kingsessing and was James Edward Gurry , of Missouri City, TX, descends from introduced to the SCS by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig. Anders Bengtsson and Gertrude Rambo Bengtsson
18 Swedish Colonial News High Patron Governor Councillors Patrons, His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf Margaret Sooy Bridwell Kenneth Alexy King of Sweden Kristina Antoniades Officers & Deputy Governor - Britt M. Apell Deputy High Patron Me mbership Ronald S. Beatty Councillors Her Royal Highness John B. Tepe, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Crown Princess Victoria Deputy Governor - Forde-Beatty Patron Administration Marie B. Boisvert His Excellency Jonas Hafström Michael R. D’Andrea DeAnn Clancy Ambassador of Sweden Treasurer Jill D’Andrea Associate Patron Linda K. Alexy Fred Davidson Jan Campbell-Westlind William R. Johnson Registrar Honorary Consul of Sweden Hildegard Lindstrom Emily M. Berich Hans Ling Honorary Governors Recording Secretary Marianne E. Mackenzie Herbert R. Rambo Aleasa J. Hogate Mary W. McCoy The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams Alfred J. Nicolosi Ronald A. Hendrickson, Esq. Historian Sandra S. Pfaff William B. Neal The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams Edith A. Rohrman John C. Cameron, Esq. Curator Ellen T. Rye Wallace F. Richter Beverly B. Walker Earl E. Seppälä Katarina K. Sheronas Archivist Susan B. Spackman Edward R. Root, M.D. Larry S. Stallcup Marshal Richard Steadham Alfred B. Capotosto Margaretha Talerman Chaplain The Rev. D. Joy Segal Web master Herbert R. Rambo (acting) Newsletter Editor Karin Hampel Genealogists Ronald S. Beatty The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde-Beatty
An upcoming issue of the SCS newsletter will feature an article about present-day descendants A request for of the Bengtsson/Bankson/Bankston family. You are invited to contribute your information! 1. Your Name? 6. Describe the path of your part of the information 2. Swedish Bengtsson/Bankson/Bankston Bengtsson/Bankson/Bankston family to Family Name? your present location? 3. Your present-day location? 7. What would you like to share about your part of this family line: occupations, 4. How long have members of your family honors, hobbies, other? lineage lived where you do? 8. Do you have a photo of your part of this 5. Where else do members of your part of family that you would like to share? Bengtsson/Bankson/Bankston family live? We appreciate so much your contribution. Space may not allow us to present all the data, but we hope to cover each family line in some way. Please send your responses by E-mail to “Martha Bankson Lyle”
Editor: Karin Hampel
Note: The editor gives a special “thank you” to Heather Hampel, Ellen Rye and Ron & Cynthia Beatty for assistance in producing this issue.
TOUR New Sweden Delegation Tours Sweden and Finland in 2013
Members of The Swedish Colonial Society and their friends are invited to join the “New Sweden Friendship Delegation” visiting Finland and Sweden as part of the 375th New Sweden Anniversary, and which will include a bonus excursion to see the natural splendor of Iceland. The trip will begin June 5, 2013 and pricing will be announced at the Society’s website