Swedish American Genealogist Volume 27 | Number 2 Article 7 6-1-2007 New Sweden featured at AHSM talk Dennis L. Johnson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Johnson, Dennis L. (2007) "New Sweden featured at AHSM talk," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 27 : No. 2 , Article 7. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol27/iss2/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. New Sweden Featured at ASHM Talk in Philadelphia BY DENNIS L. JOHNSON Nearly 370 years ago, two small sites exist in the area which can trace sailing ships, the Kalmar Nyckel and their origins to the colony in some the Fogel Grip, were chartered by a way. Dutch and Swedish trading company to carry a small group of Swedes to The Early Years North America to settle on the banks At the time of the New Sweden set- of the Delaware River, on lands that tlement, the Dutch and the English are now part of Delaware, Pennsyl- were competing for ascendancy on vania, and New Jersey. This colony, the northeast coast of North America. established in 1638, followed closely By 1638, Sweden had embarked after English and Dutch settlements upon her “age of greatness” be- in Massachusetts, Virginia, New ginning with King Gustav II Adolf in York, and a few other locations in the 1611.