Volume 5, Number 1 • Jubilee Issue 2013 PRESERVING THE LEGACY OF THE NEW SWEDEN COLONY IN AMERICA Swedish Colonial news
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SPECIAL 375 THREE-PART STORY: BENGTSSON GENEALOGY
n Anders Bengtsson’s DNA Discovered page 3 Lawrence Bankson and Rebecca Hendricks page 5 Descendants of Anders Bengtsson: Where Are They Now? page 17
HISTORIC EVENT: 375 TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE
n Follow the Day of the Royal Couple th page 8 375 Anniversary Jubilee Jubilee Dinner page 12 Celebrating The Past With Our Future! GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE
Swedish Col onial Society 916 South Swanson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147
Dear Friends of New Sweden,
The visit of Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silva of Sweden with Finland’s Speaker of Parliament Eero Heinäluoma created excitement with a whirlwind tour highlighted by a truly spectacular and memorable evening celebrating the 375th Anniversary at the Jubilee Dinner held at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Special 375th Jubilee events celebrating the beginning of the New Sweden Colony will be continued throughout the entire year. A calendar has been placed on the Internet under www.NewSwedenAlliance.org to indicate the different dates of these festivities. On a personal note, I must admit the most exciting event time for me was also the most humbling. I am deeply honored to have been bestowed with the Royal Order of the Polar Star that was presented by the King in front of so many friends and family members. It is an experience I will long treasure in my memories. Of course, the Society is especially proud of our new publication, New Sweden on the Delaware: A Photographic Tour of the Historic Sites of America’s First Swedes and Finns, designed by Ronald Hendrickson, edited by Kim-Eric Williams with photos by Kenneth Peterson. This elegant, educational and descriptive book of the New Sweden Colony is an excellent gift and is available for purchase at local sites and through the Society’s website www.colonialswedes.org. The Swedish Colonial Society’s councillors had an educational meeting with William Whitcraft, webmaster, who presented a PowerPoint showing of our new website. All members will soon be able to discover additional genealogical facts about the early settlers and their descendants by logging on. We are now in the process of developing procedures to access information and protect the privacy of living persons. On behalf of the Society, I extend the most sincere “thank you” to Ron and Nancy Hendrickson at Cataleno Design Studio for all the work they have done and wish Ron only the very best as he steps down as publisher of Swedish Colonial News. He leaves “big shoes” to fill, but we will try. In closing, I extend my blessings to all and encourage you to attend the events of our 375th Anniversary Jubilee in the year 2013.
Margaret Sooy Bridwell Governor, The Swedish Colonial Society
On the Front Cover (left to right): John Langan Morton handled introductions; Margaret Elizabeth Dyer presented flowers to Her Majesty Queen Sylvia of Sweden; Alexis Kristina Lehman presented flowers to Satu Siitonen-Heinaluoma, wife of the Speaker of Parliament of Finland; Miranda Lake Dyer presented flowers to Shayne Williams, wife of the Mayor of Wilmington, DE.
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Special three-Part Story BengtSSon genealogy • Part 1
ANDERS BENGTSSON (1640- 1705) was one of the early settlers of New Sweden, coming there in 1656, a Anders Bengtsson’s lad of 16. He married Gertrude Rambo, and fathered a family of nine children, DNA Discovered all of whom lived to adulthood. In this issue of Swedish Colonial News, by Ronald S. Beatty and The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde-Beatty we explore the legacy of this Forefather in a special three-part story: ou might wonder how DNA research will bear witness to your Part 1, “Anders Bengtsson’s DNA YColonial Forefather. DNA analysis is transforming genealogy and can Disovered,” highlights the way DNA already be tremendously helpful. The latest “breaking news” is that DNA research is transforming genealogy and conclusively disproves rumors that Anders Bengtsson (Bankson) was a offers new discoveries about Anders Finn or a Norwegian; because of a unique marker, he was definitely a Bengtsson. Swede. Furthermore, DNA proves that Rev. John Bankston was not a Part 2 (page 5) traces the lives of patrilineal descendant of Anders Bankson. (Perhaps he was given the name Lawrence Bankson, his wife Rebecca by a Bankston uncle who raised him.) Thomas Bankston was thought to Hendricks and their descendants. be a son of Rev. John, but their DNA does not match; Thomas’s DNA Lawrence Bankson (or Bengtsson in does match that of Anders Bankson. Swedish records) was a grandson of Anders Bengtsson and Gertrude PLEASE! We appeal to ALL Bankston/Bankson descendants to Rambo. have your DNA tested. It is especially vital that our OLDEST cousins participate. As more people participate, more correlations Part 3 (page 17) , “Where Are They can prove family relationships. YOUR Bankston/Bankson DNA Now?” shares family stories and photos just might help Rev. John’s descendants determine their place of Bengtsson Forefather Members of within the family. The Swedish Colonial Society collected from around the country. Cynthia Forde-Beatty, Group Administrator for the Bankston/ Bankson YDNA Project, first sent her mtDNA to National Geographic’s Genographic Project in 2005. She has never had to submit another cheek swab sample, but has been able to purchase each new result that has become available. With each new test comes new cousins and new ABOUT THE AUTHORS revelations. After raising a family of five in Iowa, Cynthia Privacy is guaranteed. Every participant is assigned a unique “kit Forde-Beatty moved to Texas in 1981 and became number”. Participants can elect to share results or not and can dictate a parish pastor in the ELCA while earning doctoral that their sample be preserved for future tests or destroyed. degrees in spirituality and pastoral counseling. Everyone has mitochondrial DNA. It comes from your mother’s She wrote a work of historical fiction, The Spirit mother’s mother’s ... mother, and it will also closely match your close in the South, the story of ten generations of her relatives. Presently mitochondrial DNA is used only to determine your grandmothers. ancient (feminine) ancestry (your Haplogroup), but as more “full Ronald S. Beatty graduated from MIT with a sequence mitrochondrial testing” is done, more valuable genealogical degree in theoretical mathematics. In 1980 he correlations will become evident. became addicted to genealogy and has pursued The male chromosome (the infamous Y) is passed down exclusively, his elusive ancestors ever since, resulting in invariably from father to son. Occasionally during the replication of the publication of five volumes of the Rambo Family DNA, the enzymes will create a copy that is slightly different from the Tree. Their work eventually led to a new life original. The geneticists can test for repeating sequences in the DNA helix, together and great friendships with members and the number of repeats at each “marker” determines the value for that of The Swedish Colonial Society. marker. By comparing the entire 111 markers used for genealogy, it is continued on next page
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Anders Bengtsson’s DNA Discovered continued from page 3 possible to gauge the probability of common ancestry. Seven male descendants of Anders Bankson tested so far, and only 8 of the 111 markers show any change from the original. How do we know the original? Two of Anders’ proven descendants from different branches have no mutations which means they have Anders’ unique DNA. The chart below shows selected columns from those 111 columns comparing the Y-DNA of several Bankston males.
Haplo- DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS group 393 390 439 458 460 576 444 495 549 638 462 This chart shows how 13 24 11 17 10 20 11 16 12 11 11 two sisters and a niece 13 24 11 19 10 21 11 17 13 11 11 compare. Where all 13 24 11 18 10 20 11 16 13 11 11 three have identical R1b1a2 13 24 11 17 10 20 11 16 13 11 11 chromosomal markers, the R1b1a2 13 24 11 18 10 21 11 16 13 11 11 chromosome is gray from R1b1a2 13 24 11 18 10 20 11 16 13 11 11 top to bottom. Where R1b1a2a 13 24 11 18 10 20 11 16 13 11 11 neither sister nor niece R1b1a2 13 24 11 18 10 20 11 17 13 11 11 match, the chromosome is R1b1a2 13 24 11 19 10 20 11 16 12 11 11 black from top to bottom. R1b1a2 13 24 11 18 10 20 11 17 13 11 11 If the chromosome is half black and half gray, one of Certain values for some markers are relatively unique. The Anders Bankson the three does not match values for DYS576 of 20 and 21 are far less common in the general population the other two. (3% and 1% respectively). Consequently, all Bankston/Bankson males with a value of 21 for marker DYS576 undoubtedly descend from the same common ancestor. With enough DNA to compare, we can determine the earlier ancestry of Bankstons/Banksons whose paper trails have been destroyed. This is the reason we hope that EVERY Bankston/Bankson male will add his DNA results to the database. If we had 700 participants, we would be well on our way to perfecting our knowledge of Bankston/Bankson ancestry and eliminating the plethora of guesswork that is our nemesis today. Your 23rd chromosome is your sex chromosome, either XX or XY. THERE’S MORE TO THE STORY... The other 22 chromosomes contain your autosomal DNA. That DNA is If this article has proven interesting, you can assembled “piecemeal” from snippets of your mother’s and father’s read more explanations on the Bankston web chromosomes. Your sister’s 23 chromosomes will have similarities and site which also has links to explanations of differences from yours, as will your aunts’ and uncles’. Analysis of autosomal DNA suitable for non-scientists. DNA is less straightforward since those chromosomes are assembled
4 SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS by Myra Vanderpool Gormley FOREFATHERS
BengtSSon genealogy • Part 2
lawrence Bankson and rebecca Hendricks and their descendants
awrence Bankson or Bankston (the surname Hendricks (also recorded as L rendered as Bengtsson in Swedish records) Hendrickson) and Rebecca was born by estimation 1700-1705, probably (née Groesbeck) Wells, the on Poquessing Creek in Byberry Township, widow of Arthur Wells Sr. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his parents, (1670-1702). Rebecca Andrew “Anders” Bankson Jr. and Gertrude Hendricks was a grand- Boore (Bjur), owned property 1 and resided for daughter of Albertus many years. He was their second son. The Hendrickson and Aeltje surname morphed into the Bankston spelling [—?—] and Jacob after Lawrence and his descendants migrated to Groesbeck and Annetje North Carolina and Georgia. Vandergrift — all early Poquessing (also spelled Potquessink) Dutch settlers. 6 Creek is a 10.3-mile-long tributary of the Rebecca Hendricks’ Delaware River that since 1682 forms part of parents — Johannes “John” the boundary between Bucks County and the Hendricks and Rebecca northeast section of Philadelphia. Andrew (née Groesbeck) Wells — “Anders” Bankson Jr. (ca 1673-after 1744) were married in a Quaker apparently continued to live on Poquessing ceremony on 13 April 1704 Creek, near the boundary of Philadelphia and at a Philadelphia Quaker Bucks counties, until his death sometime after Meeting House. 7 However, 1744. He was still listed as a member of Gloria no evidence has yet been Dei Church (Old Swedes) in a census dated discovered to indicate that 20 November 1743 and on 2 April 1744 he Rebecca was a Quaker, This image was first published joined in executing a deed, confirming a prior although she certainly might have been. in the 1st (1876–1899), 2nd conveyance by his father (Anders Bengtsson, The Lawrence Bankson family first removed (1904–1926) or 3rd (1923– 1640-1705) to that church. 2 However, no to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by 5 Aug 1937) edition of Nordisk death or probate records have yet been found for 1729 when he served as a juror during the familjebok. Copyrights for that him or his wife. Andrew “Anders” Bankston Jr. first session of the Lancaster County Court. 8 book have expired and this and Gertrude Boore (Bjur) had at least nine Lawrence Bankson, along with probably his image is in the public domain. children, one of whom was Lawrence, the uncle Joseph Bankson, as well as some of his subject of this article. 3 Hendricks in-laws and relatives, participated Lawrence Bankson was a grandson of the in the Maryland-Pennsylvania border dispute Swedish immigrant and forefather Anders riots — also called Cresap’s War — in Lancaster Bengtsson (1640-1705), and Gertrude Rambo County, Pennsylvania and Frederick County, (1650-after 1705). Gertrude was born in Nya Maryland. Sverige (New Sweden), a daughter of the “During this border dispute of the 1730s, Rambo gateway ancestor and forefather Peter Thomas Cresap endeavored to claim the west Gunnarsson Rambo (1612-1698) and his wife, bank of the Susquehanna for Maryland, John Brita Matsdotter. 4 Low, Daniel Low, and John Hendricks, Sr., About 1725, Lawrence Bankston married were among those indicted in Lancaster Rebecca Hendricks. Their marriage record has County. Pennsylvania for ‘invading the not been located. 5 Born about 1705, Rebecca Hendricks was a daughter of Johannes “John” continued on page 15
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Society publishes New Sweden on the Delaware for 375 th
he Society has published a very attractive It was standing room only as Governor Sally Tand comprehensive photo book of all the Bridwell introduced the many distinguished important historic sites in the Delaware Valley guests followed by New Sweden photographer associated with the first Swedes and Finns as a Ken Peterson, whose pictures make the book part of the 375th Anniversary celebration this so attractive. The full title is: New year (1638-2013). Peterson explained the book grew from his Sweden on the Delaware, New Sweden on the Delaware was released at a taking photos of historic sites for his own A photographic tour of the gala book-signing on the evening of May 10 at enjoyment and donation to the Society’s historic sites of America’s the DoubleTree-Downtown Hotel that helped first Swedes and Finns. Archival Collection. The Society’s late Historian Photographed by kick off the Jubilee celebration. Dr. Peter Craig and then-Archivist Dr. Kim-Eric Kenneth S. Peterson, The Reception was hosted by the Society Williams both thought the photographs text by Kim-Eric and Oscars Borg Lodge #172, Vasa Order deserved a larger audience. Williams, edited by of America. While guests enjoyed libations The first impulse was to create such a book Ronald A. Hendrickson, and fabulous hors d’oeuvres, a PowerPoint to be ready for the Centennial of the Society in Philadelphia: Swedish presentation developed by New Sweden on the 2009, with the title New Sweden in the 21st Colonial Society, 2013. Delaware Editor Ron Hendrickson gave guests Century. This proved to be an overly ambitious ISBN 978-0-9762501-6-6 a preview of the book. schedule and the project took much longer to complete. Dr. Williams took on the critical task of writing the text, which had to describe the
The New Sweden authors (left to right): photographer Ken Peterson, editor Ron Hendrickson and writer Kim-Eric Williams.
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contents of the photographs fully yet concisely and Past Grand Master, Vasa give the book a cohesive sense of direction. Order of America, Rolf With a financial grant from the Swedish Council Bergman and wife of America, a complete text was devised by Dr. Marty, Financial Williams, then began the effort to put the book in a Secretary Nobel- Monitor Lodge #130. preliminary form as corrections and additions were made to the selection of pictures and some updating was necessary. Finally the target date of May 2013 was made possible by the extraordinary work of Cataleno and Company of Moorestown, NJ. Honorary Governor Ron Hendrickson and his talented wife, Nancy Cataleno, together with their creative staff of Jose Ramirez and Rose Dominiano, changed the layout and enlarged the pages, creating an appealing “coffee-table book.” The full color pictures of all of the sites are organized by states and include addresses and web Kenneth Alexy, sites to help readers find the sites they wish to visit. Chairman of Oscars The introductions and dating reflect the latest Borg Lodge #172, and research, which in many cases is different from that wife Linda, treasurer of published in 1988. The Swedish Colonial Complimentary copies were given to the King and Society. Queen and to the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland on May 11. In addition, both Ambassadors and other government officials visiting for the Anniversary Celebrations received copies from the Society. Of special interest is also a history of the society, the oldest Swedish historical organization in America, and a listing of its 33 Governors.
Ken Peterson siging a book for Doriney Seagers.
Additional copies can be ordered through the Society’s website www.colonialswedes.org. The cost per copy is $25 plus shipping and handling. They are also for sale at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, and at the Lutheran Archives Center in Philadelphia. In Delaware they can be purchased at the Hendrickson House at Holy Trinity Church and at the New Sweden Centre. The Swedish American Center in Karlstad, Sweden also has a supply for sale.
SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS 7 375TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE May 11, 2013 Follow the
The 375th Jubilee Day was celebrated with honored guests Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden and Mr. Eero Heinäluoma, Speaker of the Parliament of Finland, and his wife, Ms. Satu Siitonen-Heinäluoma.
9 am Symposium Making It in America: A Transatlantic Bridge to the Future was moderated by Dr. Stephen Tang, President, University City Science Center. Panel members included Marcus Samuelsson, Master Chef & owner of the restaurant Red Rooster; Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Founder of Carlson Wagonlit Travel; Mirkku Kullberg, CEO of Finnish design company Artek; and Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Finnish gaming company Remedy Entertainment. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (left) and symposium speaker Chef Marcus 11 am Samuelsson. Finnish Monument The ceremony at the Finnish Monument in Chester, PA, which honors the Finnish settlers in the Delaware River Valley, included a wreath laying and music.
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Earl Seppälä, proud of his Finnish ancestry.
11:30 am Governor’s Luncheon Guests arrive at the historic Buena Vista mansion for lunch. Pctured (left to right): Carla Markell, First Lady of Delaware; Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden; Delaware Governor Jack Markell; Mr. Eero Heinäluoma, Speaker of the Parliament of Finland, and his wife, Ms. Satu Siitonen-Heinäluoma.
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Day of the royal Couple
Margaret Dyer presenting Chief Mark Gould of the Nanticoke-Lenape of New Jersey flowers to the Queen. 1 pm 2 pm greets the King as he arrives at “The Rocks.” Dravo Plaza Kalmar Nyckel The mayors of Wilmington, Delaware and Kalmar, Jubilee landing of the Kalmar Nyckel at “The Rocks” at Sweden welcomed visitors and dignitaries to Dravo Fort Christina National Historic Landmark, where original Plaza on the Riverfront for an afternoon of Swedish settlers landed, greeted by Lenape Chief and dignitaries. and Finnish food, fun, and music.
3 pm Fort Christina Ceremonies at Fort Christina included wreath laying, reading of “New Sweden” poem, music by First State Symphonic Band and speeches by dignitaries.
4 pm Trinity Church A procession of royalty and dignitaries traveled to Old Swedes Church for evening prayers.
Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator for Delaware PHOTOS BY ELISA MORRIS PHOTOGRAPHY.
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375th Anniversary Jubilee } Commemorative Poem by Paul Weidkneckt
nya Sverige (New Sweden)
A winter passage and snow squalls, Atlantic swells in whitecaps, trough to crest. The creak of Kalmar’s hull, of Fogel’s ropes and sails billowed west, through the brace of Capes and South River bound.
Swedes and Finns to American shores raising blockhouse and fort, founding a city, their cabins of white oak, axe hewn Paul Weidkneckt’s short stories, poems, and and dovetail notched; template for a nascent land. nonfiction articles have appeared in numerous Gospel read by the hearth fire, illuminating; literary publications including Shenandoah, ballast bricks carried from the Old World Rosebud, The Los Angeles Review, Philadelphia Stories for hope on New soil. and Poetry Salzburg Review. He has been awarded a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and is a member of the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC. He Spring thaw and wet land furrowed: lives in New Jersey where he has recently completed corn, beans, squash, tobacco, a collection of short fiction, Fly in a Cube of Amber. following the flow of change and season. He is a descendant of Olaf Stille of the New Sweden Lenape sharing the ground Colony and is in the process of becoming a Swedish with neighbors, each with different ways; Colonial Society Forefather member. pipes and hides, iron and maize, growing together.
Swedes and Finns to American states, at these Rocks in common heritage, honoring colony, those who helped forge the first three: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Bridge of friendship, our amity stronger these centuries later—three and three-quarters— affirms that time told the truth, offering confident promise for a lasting bond beyond our own passage.
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Governor Bridwell Receives Royal Honors
His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf bestowed Society Governor Margaret Sooy Bridwell with the Royal Order of the Polar Star in a presentation made during the Reception prior to the 375th New Sweden Jubilee Dinner. The King is the Society’s High Patron.
mbassador Jonas Hafström praised Governor Bridwell for her leadership role in adding A the Peter S. Craig Collection and the Ronald S. Beatty Collection to the Society’s holdings to create the world’s largest collection of genealogical and historical material relating to New Sweden and the colonists. The Order of the Polar Star is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I in 1748, was intended as a reward for both Swedish and foreign “civic merits, such as devotion to duty, for science, literary, learned and useful works and for new and beneficial institutions.” Since 1975 it is presented only to foreigners or members of the Royal Family. Mrs. Bridwell is a 12th generation descendent of Olaf Stille and Hans Månsson, his future son in-law who both arrived from Sweden in 1641. After Hans’s marriage to Ella Stille, the Månsson name evolved into Steelman, a distinguished family name along southern New Jersey coastal areas. “Sally” Bridwell is a retired career educator who graduated from Rowan University and earned her master’s degree from Temple University. Governor Bridwell and her husband, Nagle, reside in Berwyn, PA. They have two children: Mark, in Boston, MA; Jennifer and her husband, Ted, in Douglassville, PA; and nine-year-old twin granddaughters, Margaret and Miranda. Previously Mrs. Bridwell served the Swedish Colonial Society as treasurer, junior deputy governor and senior deputy governor. The Governor also serves on the Board of Directors of the Swedish Council of America, Minneapolis, MN; and the New Sweden Colonial Farmstead, Bridgeton, NJ. She is a member of the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, the American Swedish Historical Museum and the New Sweden Centre.
Sally Bridwell was honored by the King’s applause.
SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS 11 375TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE Sponsor Reception and Jubilee Dinner
On the evening of May 11, 2013 the 375th Anniversary Jubilee was highlighted by a reception and dinner celebrated at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 600 guests were in attendance. The evening included toasts to the Royal family and distinguished guests, speeches, musical selections and a live auction. The dinner was created especially in honor of the historic occasion by the chefs of the Swedish and Finnish embassies and the Chase Center.
The Honorable Dale Wolf, former Governor of the State of Delaware, and Carla and Governor Jack Markell with Her Royal Highness Princess his wife, Clarise, greeting Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Madeleine and her Fiancé Chris O’Neill Silvia of Sweden.
th Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden 12 3SWEDISH COLO7NIAL NEWS 5 375TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE
As the formal program of the Reception, held in the Governors’ Hall, commenced, dignitaries assembled on the stage.
After opening remarks, delivered at the 375th Anniversary Dinner in the Riverfront Ballroom by Honorary Governor of The Swedish Colonial Society Herbert Rambo, the 72nd Troop Command, Delaware Army National Guard, presented the flags of the United States, Finland and Sweden. Martin Hargrove sang the U.S. national anthem.
The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams gave a toast to Swedish and Finnish Forefathers.
His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden offered remarks to the guests.
PHOTOS BY ELISA MORRIS PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Guests were entertained by the musical selections of Marja Kaisla and Emily Samson Tepe.
The Honorable Eero Heinäluoma, Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
U.S. Senator for Delaware Christopher Coons at the podium during the Live Auction
Also in attendance were the Honorable Johan Persson, Lord Mayor of Kalmar, Sweden (far left) and Dennis P. Williams, Mayor of Wilmington (far right). th 14 SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS 375 FOREFATHERS
Lawrence Bankson and Rebecca Hendricks and their descendants continued from page 5
mansion of (North) Henry Hendricks in a Lawrence and his sons are recorded in various warlike manner, putting fear and terror into North Carolina court and land records. the children and servants of said Henry’ while Lawrence also served as a justice of the Granville plundering the house. John Hendricks, Sr., County Court from 1747 to 1752. 12 Soon after who was jailed in Lancaster, was required to Orange County was created from Granville provide bail for his and Lawrence Bankston’s County, on 12 Jun 1752, Lawrence Bankson was good behavior at Lancaster County Court in one of sixteen men appointed justices of the early 1737 for their participation in the riot peace in the new county and he presided as chief of Marylanders, including the sacking of justice at the first session held on 9 Sep 1752. (North) Henry Hendricks’ house in the Lawrence probably died before 1771 in what fall of 1736.” became Anson County, North Carolina (he died —“The Cresap Border War,” “before the Revolutionary War” according to Hendricks Family Association James Lea’s 1793 deposition.) 13 Evidently he website 9 died intestate as his estate eventually went to his oldest son’s oldest son because of the laws of “An approximate location of Lawrence ABOUT THE AUTHOR primogeniture were then in effect in North Bankston’s [land] claim would have been in Myra Vanderpool Gormley Carolina. Under this law, the eldest living son Manchester Township, York County, Penn- is a Forefather member of (the “heir-at-law”) inherited all of the real sylvania, near the tract owned by Francis The Swedish Colonial property (land, buildings, etc.) of the father if Worley (brother-in-law of John Hendricks, son Society and is a 10th the father died intestate. of James Sr.) and the improvement that John generation descendant Lawrence Bankson and Rebecca Hendricks Hendricks (of James, Sr.) sold in 1742.” 10 of Anders Bengtsson and had at least six or seven children (see page 16) , all Lawrence Bankson removed to North Gertrude Rambo. She probably born in Pennsylvania, with dates Carolina, probably between 1740 and 1744. is an author, a retired ranging from about 1727 to 1742. While earlier He is listed on a tax list in Edgecombe County, columnist and feature genealogists have claimed Rebecca died by 1740, North Carolina in 1744. His father-in-law writer for the Los Angeles no solid evidence has been found to support this evidently died late in 1748 in York County, Times Syndicate. She lives assertion and no other wife has been found for with her husband, Leo, Pennsylvania for Lawrence is listed as the Lawrence Bankson. Their children would have in University Place, principal debtor to the estate in court records come of marriageable ages ca 1745-65, but no Washington and dated 6 January 1749/50, owing notes of £25 marriage records have been found for any of Surprise, Arizona. and £3.6.7. The area where Lawrence Bankson them. However, because it cost a lot of money settled in North Carolina (near Marlow’s Creek) to purchase a marriage certificate in the colonial became part of Granville County when it was period in North Carolina — about £50 — some formed from Edgecombe County in 1746. 11 couples simply posted banns. Banns were an The process of patenting land in North announcement informing the community of a Carolina was rather straightforward. Anyone couple’s plans to wed. They had to be read three wanting to patent land could submit an weeks in a row, which allowed time for anyone application (also called a land entry) to a land to object to the match or for the prospective office. The land officer then issued a warrant. bride or bridegroom to change her or his mind. Land officers included the secretary of state In 1741, North Carolina’s Colonial Assembly (1669–1776), the agents of Earl Granville passed a bill that made the posting of banns the (1748–76), or the county entry taker (1778– legal equivalent of a marriage ceremony. To be present). Then the warrant was taken to a legal, though, the banns had to be read by a surveyor who surveyed the land and sketched a government official or by a clergyman from the plat (map) of the claim. The plat (prior to 1777) Church of England. There were many different was then filed in the land office (after 1777, it religious groups in North Carolina and so was recorded by the county register of deeds) people who belonged to a different church, such and a patent for the land was issued and recorded. continued on next page
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Lawrence Bankson and Rebecca Hendricks continued from page 15
as the Quakers, would participate in a religious ceremony with their 1 Craig, Peter Stebbins, F.A.S.G. “Anders Bengtsson and his Bankson & Bankston Descendants.” Swedish church community. Quakers did not have clergymen and a couple Colonial News , Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1999). would simply stand before the congregation three times and announce
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4. Daniel was born about 1737 in Pennsylvania. He married Rachel [—?—] BengtSSon genealogy • Part 3 and died in 1811 in Morgan County, Georgia and left a will. Their children Descendants of Anders Bengtsson were: John, Thomas Jefferson, Abner, Isaac, Spencer, Edeth and Pattey. 5. Jacob was born about 1740 in Where are Pennsylvania. He married first Jemima [—?—] about 1764 in North Carolina. they now? She evidently died between 1805 and 1808 and Jacob married secondly Nancy Anders Bengtsson, son of Bengt, (1640-1705) was one of the early Brewer in 1808 in Clarke County, settlers of New Sweden, coming there in 1656, a lad of 16. He Georgia. Jacob died ca. 1824 in married Gertrude Rambo and fathered a family of nine Washington Parish, Louisiana. Children children, all of whom lived to adulthood. by Jemima include: Elijah, John, Henry Anders’ children married within the Swedish community, and Araminta. Children by Nancy were: with the possible exception of the two youngest children, Elizabeth Cyrne and Lucinda. Daniel and Joseph Bankson. First generation descendants married 6. Unnamed daughter who was born by into the Boore, Cock, Mattson (Dalbo), and Swanson families. estimate about 1727 in Pennsylvania and who married James Lea about 1746, MANY DESCENDANTS OF ANDERS BENGTSSON remained in the probably in North Carolina. Had issue. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware areas. Succeeding 7. Priscilla [unproven] who was probably generations also began to move out into the American continent. born about 1742 and who married first Bengtsson Forefather Members of the Swedish Colonial Society may Lambeth Hopkins Sr. He was born ca be found in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Indiana, and 1740 and died in 1798 and left a will in Maryland. Other descendants are in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Clarke County, Georgia. She married California; and even in Chile, South America! secondly Thomas Runnels by July 1801. These family stories were collected from responses to a Had issue. questionnaire in a recent SCS newsletter. Members shared their family history and stories of their accomplishments.
Descendants of DEBORAH BANKSON , Anders’ granddaughter through his son Jacob Bankson, live today in Olney, Maryland. 1 Deborah married John Palmer. Deborah’s son, John Bankson Palmer served in the 4th & 5th, (Captain Waggoner’s) Artillery Companies, Philadelphia City Militia, 1777-1781. Descendants of Deborah Bankson Palmer include the Mason and Hill families of Maryland. This lineage includes instructors, magistrates, colporteurs, and skilled technicians. Deborah Bankson Palmer’s ninth granddaughter is an Archives Specialist with the National Archives in Washington, DC. Children of Desrie C. m Bankston and Mary Jane LAWRENCE BANKSTON , grandson of Anders, and Statham (left to right): his children and succeeding generations moved to Edith Bankston Stven, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Lula Mae Bankston Gurry, Woodrow Bankston, Texas. Some also moved to Indiana and Illinois. Georgie Ann Bankston, Some descendants of Lawrence Bankston live in Jeff Bankston. (Picture Amite, Louisiana. 2 taken by Clay Bankston) continued on next page
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Ann Hooper Stacy flanked by her sons, Charles and Andrew. They are the descendants of Priscilla Bankson, Anders’ GGG granddaughter.
9th generation: Irene McDonald was born in Milam Members of this family descend from John JOSEPH BANKSON , the youngest child of County, Texas, the youngest surviving child of Mary F. Bankston (grandson of Lawrence Bankston) and Anders Bengtsson, was in Philadelphia as late as Russell and Marshall Bruce Simeon Bankston (great-grandson of Lawrence 1722. Joseph was living in Baltimore by 1726, McDonald. She met and Bankston). John was a soldier in the where he witnessed a deed for John Dorsey. married English immigrant Revolutionary War. This family came from The Joseph Bankson family remained in Henry Job Ralph in 1905. Oglethorpe, Georgia, and includes farmers, Baltimore, where three generations were born – mayors, and businessmen. The family still owns Joseph Jr., James, and James N. Bankson. the land settled by Simeon in 1807. 3 Most of the McDonald descendants of JAMES N. B ANKSON fought in the Battle of Lawrence Bankston live in Texas, since the North Point, in the Defense of Baltimore in 1850s. They descend from Lawrence Bankston’s 1814. He went to Tennessee where he married granddaughter, Priscilla Bankston. Many of the in 1819 7, and moved to Cherokee County, McDonalds and a few of the Ralphs seem to Alabama about 1836. have a bent towards the technical. Many of the This Bankson family includes farmers, men and women are Mechanical Engineers. storekeepers, a medical doctor who went to Several have been professors, authors, inventors, Louisiana to help with the Yellow Fever researchers, historians, and teachers. 4 epidemic and died there, several ministers, The Hooper family, descendants of Lawrence teachers, and a county Superintendant of Bankston’s daughter Priscilla, live in East Texas. Education. 8 This family arrived in East Texas from Georgia in 1853. They were in the lumber business both in SARAH DIANA BANKSON was born on 6 Jan Georgia and in Fort Worth. Hooper was a 1876, in Cherokee County, Alabama. She was graduate of TCU and served in the 36th Texas the fourth of five children, and only daughter, Division during W.W.I. 5 born to Franklin Reuben Bankson (the Elder) The Dickerson family descends from (1837-1908) and Berenice Shackleford Bankson Lawrence Bankston’s son Peter, through (1838-1907), and the granddaughter of James Lawrence Jr., Hiram, Reuben Weldon, William N. Bankson (1794-1847) and Margaret Swann S., John Henry, Robert Herman, and Mildred Bankson (1802-1897). Diana Bankson was the LaVerne. Mildred married Herman Dickerson, GGGG-Granddaughter of the immigrant, who worked during World War II to help make Anders Bengtsson. the atomic bomb. Their daughter is a grants Diana was born into a family of educators. manager for FEMA. 6 Her father, Frank Reuben Bankson was a teacher, Superintendent of Education and an m
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Adventist preacher. He fought in the Battle of Atlanta during the Civil War, and buried his brother William on the Battlefield in Atlanta. Diana’s mother, Berenice, was a well-known teacher in Cherokee County prior to her ABOUT THE AUTHOR marriage in 1867. Berenice Contributed by Dr. Martha Bankson Lyle (Frank, Rube, sold a piece of property left to F. R., James N., James, Joseph, Joseph, Anders her by her grandfather to get Bengtsson). Dr. Lyle holds a doctorate from Florida money to attend Mary Sharp State University, and was Supervisor of Elementary College in Tennessee, where Education with the Escambia County Florida School “A thorough course of study System (1968-1999). She has been a student of was prepared, in which genealogy since 1984, when a friend shared a mathematics had a prominent Baltimore reference, from LDS records, to the Bankson place, English branches also; and Lawson Furniture Manufactory in Baltimore. Soon the Latin and Greek thereafter Martha discovered that a Rambo cousin, languages, with an extended Sylvia Rambo Robbins, was also an administrator and thorough drill in logic within the same school system. Sylvia shared the Beverly Nelson Rambo research, and this led to Ron and metaphysics.” The study Sarah Diana Bankson (1874-1949) of Greek was unknown at that Beatty, who updated and revised Beverly Rambo’s time in any institution for girls. This college for the higher education of data, and to Dr. Cynthia Forde-Beatty, who has women was established to “demonstrate the fact that woman’s mind spearheaded the YDNA study. Martha was also a generally is susceptible of the same degree of development as the correspondent of Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, who set the masculine mind in the abstract sciences, mathematics, metaphysics, and standard for Swedish colonial research. Martha is indebted to each of these persons for their inspiration ethics.” and for sharing their information! Diana graduated from Peabody College for Teachers in 1888, and took additional training from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1922-23. She became a teacher and Home Demonstration Agent in Gadsden, Alabama. In addition, she operated the Gadsden Curb Market for local farmers and their wives, as a project of the Cooperative Extension Service, whereby county agents would call on farm communities to teach farmers 1 Jill Marie Abraham D’Andrea, email response to the latest agricultural technology and, as well, to teach home economics to questionnaire. 2 James Gurry, email response to questionnaire. women and girls. Home Demonstration Agents made quite an impact on 3 Jane Buckman, email response to questionnaire. the often isolated communities they served, many of which were without 4 Mary Anne Robinson, email response to questionnaire. electrical service, telephones, or even rural mail delivery. 5 Ann Stacy, email response to questionnaire. 6 Sandra LaVerne Dickerson McNease, email response to questionnaire. m 7 Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol I and II, Byron Geneticists have shown that after ten generations, a person may have as and Barbara Sistler, 1987, Byron Sistler & little as 10% of the ancestor’s physical characteristics. Genealogical DNA, Associates, Inc., 1712 Natchez Trace, PO Box however, is passed on nearly intact from father to son, and mother to 120934, Nashville, TN 37212. 8 Frank Bankson, family research. daughter. A new science, epigenetics, is the study of heritable traits in gene 9 Erik Homburger Erikson, “Identity and the Life expression that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get Cycle, Volume 1,” (W. W. Norton & Company, passed down to successive generations. Conclusive evidence supporting 1980) 10 Jablonka E, Lamb MJ, Lachmann M (September epigenetics shows that these mechanisms can enable the effects of parents’ 1992). “Evidence, mechanisms and models for the experiences to be passed down to subsequent generations. 9 There is inheritance of acquired characteristics,” The Journal of Theoretical Biology 158 evidence that the functional history of a gene in one generation can (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2FS0022- influence its expression in the next. Descendants of Anders Bengtsson have 5193%2805%2980722-2). been of service to their communities. Perhaps these character traits have been inherited! 10
SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS 19 CONFERENCE Richard Waldron
New Sweden History Conference 2013
The 13th Annual New Sweden History Lund University Sessions Conference (NSHC), “Encountering Conference planners at Lund University are still ‘Others’ in the Atlantic World: Perspectives developing the Swedish program, including sessions on “Encountering the ‘Other’ in Sweden from the Material World,” will be held and New Sweden” and “Everyday Life in Sweden November 8-10, 2013, at Clayton Hall on the and New Sweden.” University of Delaware’s Newark campus and at Featured topics and speakers include: Lund University in Sweden. The conference will meet jointly with the annual meeting of the • Per Cornell, Gothenburg University and Christina Rosén, Swedish National Heritage Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Board, Tracing ‘Other’ in 17th-Century Sweden (CNEHA) and NSHC registrants will be able to attend CNEHA sessions. A special feature of this • Gunlög Fur, Linnaeus University, Encountering One Another in Lenapehoking and Sampi year’s NSHC is the transatlantic component— • Carl Holmberg, Gothenburg University, ABOUT THE AUTHOR scholars will also convene at Lund University on the theme, “Encountering the ‘Other’— Native Americans and Swedes in the Swedish Richard Waldron is a Indian Club Understanding Oneself: Colonialism, Ethnic published author whose Diversity and Everyday Life in Early Modern • Magdalena Naum, Lund University, Material interests include the Sweden and New Sweden.” Joint US-Sweden Lives in 17th-Century Swedish America history of Swedish sessions will be presented at both venues • Magnus Elfwendahl, Commodities and America from the via real time videoconferencing, and all Sweden and Consumption Among Forest Finn Settlements 17th century and the New Sweden papers and sessions will be recorded in Central Sweden Church of Sweden. He for later viewing. was Executive Director THE 2013 NEW SWEDEN HISTORY of the New Jersey NSHC Sessions CONFERENCE is being organized by a Historical Commission There will be four sessions on Sweden-New collaboration among the American Swedish from 1991-1999 and Historical Museum, the Council for Northeast Sweden: Director of the American Historical Archaeology, the Delaware Division • Encountering ‘Others’ in Sweden and New Swedish Historical of Historical and Cultural Affairs, the Delaware Sweden, Museum from 1999-2004. Historical Society, the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, • New Sweden: Predecessors and Legacy, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, • Kalmar Nyckel -Encountering Others by Old Swedes Foundation (Wilmington), the Boat, and New Sweden Centre (Wilmington), The Swedish • Everyday Life in Sweden and New Sweden. Colonial Society, the Delaware Swedish Colonial Society, Trinity Episcopal Church (Swedesboro, Thirty-two papers will be presented by American NJ), the University of Delaware, and Lund and Swedish scholars on a range of topics including University. 17th-century Swedish and Finnish life, early COST: Approximately $50 per person for the modern towns in Sweden, Saami life and two-day conference. Additional fees for field trips interactions with Swedes and Finns, New Sweden and meals. and Swedish interactions with the Lenape and Susquehannock Indians and with the Dutch and PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION including online registration the English, and Swedish continuity in the will be posted at Delaware Valley in the 18th century.
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20 SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS SPECIAL EVENT Ambassador’s Reception
On May 30, 2013, The Swedish Colonial Society held a “Thanks for the Memories” reception for Swedish Ambassador Jonas Hafström upon his leaving the position of Ambassador to the United States. Many members of the Society gathered to wish him well in his next position and to thank him for his dedication to our Society.
Sylvia Seppälä, Governor Sally Bridwell and Rebecca Wilson
His Excellency Jonas Hafström, Ambassador of Sweden, cutting the farewell cake.
Emily Tepe, Mary Ball Morton and John Tepe, SCS Deputy Governor. Alfred Nicolosi, Ambassador Jonas Hafström and Sylvia Kimmel.
SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS 21 MHFOERAMEDBFEEAR RTSH NEREWS S MEMBERS IN THE NEWS neW Pfaff Elected, MeMBerSHIP Peterson Honored
Society Councillor Sandra S. Pfaff has been FAMILY MEMBERS elected vice chair of the Swedish Council of William & Carolyn Allen, Dunedin, FL New Members America, the umbrella organization for the Jim Cox, Lexington, KY Welcomed! hundreds of Swedish organizations Brian Crane, Washington, DC throughout the country and in Canada. In THE SWEDISH COLONIAL SOCIETY Olivia D’Alessandro, Media, PA addition to her leadership role in the Society welcomes new members. Alice Warner Donaghy, Wilmington, DE where she has led numerous celebrations, No Swedish relative or ancestry Sandra is a current board member and past Conard T. & Jennifer B. Dyer, Douglassville, PA is required – only an interest chair of the American Swedish Historical Peter Eyestone, Dallas, TX in colonial history. Museum and also serves on the board of the Douglas L. & Polly Faulkner, Arlington, VA Contact our Registrar: Peg Berich, New Sweden Colonial Farmstead. Pfaff is a Daniel Gray, Furlong, PA The Swedish Colonial Society, Member First Class of Sweden’s Order of the James Hanby, Wilmington, DE 916 S. Swanson St., Philadelphia, Polar Star. Charles Klug, Tampa, FL PA 19147 or visit us online at: Helena Lehman, Washington, DC www.ColonialSwedes.org. Longtime Member Robert Peterson was Wes Long, Cramerton, NC The annual membership fee for an honored by the Swedish Council of America Roger Maansson, Downington, PA by awarding its “Great Achievement Award” individual is $30. An annual family Ingrid Magnusson McAllister, Middletown, DE for his many contributions to Swedish membership, which includes two George McCormick, Lakeside, OH America. Before moving to Arizona, he was adults and minor children, is $35. deeply involved with the American Swedish James Risley, La Plata, MD Historical Museum and other organizations. Roxanne Sisman, Cypress, TX Peterson’s civic endeavors were previously William Whitcraft, Blackwood, NJ recognized when he was bestowed as Officer First Class of the Order of the Polar Star. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
Benjamin Bankston, Spotsylvania, VA Edward McCormick, Jamaica Plain, MA Theresa Brasko, Maple Shade, NJ Robert H. McKinney, Booneville, MS William B. Neal Mark Nelson Bridwell, Boston, MA Elizabeth Tepe Meyer, Newton Center, MA 1931~2013 Richard Rodney Cooch, New Castle, DE Judy A. Meyer, Bellevue, WA David Cox, Palmer, AK Patricia Mortimer, Winona, MS The Swedish Celeste Craig, Dallas, TX Jan Myhrvold, Gjerdrum, Norway Colonial Society Charles W. Donaghy, Wilmington, DE Jane B. Pittenger, Reston, VA Honorary Governor Robert J. Donaghy, III, Wilmington, DE William B. Neal of Brian Roberts, Avondale, PA Claymont, DE, Teral Garit, Portland, OR David S. Raese, Mukilteo, WA passed away April Betty Jo Green, Satellite Beach, FL Nicholas Spies, Wilmington, DE 15, 2013 at the age John Harbison, Palos Verdes Estates, CA Kerrie Spoonemore, Seattle, WA of 82. Governor Mary Cloud Hollingshead, Clarksboro, NJ Michael Morgan Stranix, Swarthmore, PA Neal led the Society from 1997 to William Taylor Jaffe, Bellevue, WA Robert Taylor Stranix, Swarthmore, PA 2000. With his leadership the Society Mary Ann Kofron, Fredericksburg, VA Dawn Tedder, Amity, OR established “Fellows” to recognize Carl Lemke, El Paso, TX Nicholas A. Tepe, Birmingham, MI outstanding service and he was the first Ann Marie Matwick, Peachtree City, GA William W. Warner, Hockessin, DE recipient. Earlier he had served as Senior Deputy Governor between 1995 and 1997. Governor Neal was a LIFE MEMBERS Forefather Member descended from Paul Larsson Covhorn. Michael D’Andrea, Olney, MD
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NEW FOREFATHER MEMBERS Active members of the Swedish Colonial Society may apply for recognition as SWEDISH COLONIAL SOCIETY “Forefather Members” if they can prove descent from Swedish colonists arriving in PATRONS, OFFICERS & COUNCILLORS 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 High Patron Webmaster website www.ColonialSwedes.org. His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf William A. Whitcraft King of Sweden Newsletter Editor Alice Warner Donaghy , of Wilmington, DE, who descends from Sven Skute and Deputy High Patron (vacant) his wife Anna Johansdotter through their daughter Christina Skute who married Her Royal Highness Acting Editors, Jubilee Issue William Warner and thence through their son William Warner and his wife Maria Crown Princess Victoria Wilton (Welton). Margaret Sooy Bridwell Honorary Governors Herbert R. Rambo Charles W. Donaghy , of Wilmington, DE, who descends from Sven Skute and his Herbert R. Rambo The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams wife Anna Johansdotter through their daughter Christina Skute who married The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams Newsletter Design William Warner and thence through their son William Warner and his wife Maria Ronald A. Hendrickson, Esq. Gene Gilroy Wilton (Welton). John C. Cameron, Esq. Wallace F. Richter Genealogists Robert J. Donaghy, III of Wilmington, DE, who descends from Sven Skute and Ronald S. Beatty Governor his wife Anna Johansdotter through their daughter Christina Skute who married The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Margaret Sooy Bridwell William Warner and thence through their son William Warner and his wife Maria Forde-Beatty Wilton (Welton). Deputy Governor – Councillors Membership Matthew B. Enochs , of El Dorado Hills, CA, descends from Garret Enochson and Kenneth Alexy John B. Tepe, Jr. his wife Gertrude Stressenger Enochson and through their son Enoch Enochson Kristina Antoniades and his wife Susannah Friend Enochson and through their son, John Enochs and Deputy Governor – Britt M. Apell his wife Margaret Van Nimmen (Vannamen). Administration Ronald S. Beatty Michael R. D’Andrea The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Peter Eyestone , of Dallas, TX, descends from Peter Gunnarson Rambo and his wife Brita Mattsdotter through his son Gunnarson Rambo and wife Anneka Cock Treasurer Forde-Beatty and through their son Peter (wife UNK). Linda K. Alexy Marie B. Boisvert DeAnn Clancy William Taylor Jaffe , of Bellevue, WA, descends from Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Registrar Jill D’Andrea Svensdotter through their son, Jonathan Jonasson and his wife Mary, and the Emily M. Berich Fred Davidson latter’s son, William Jones who married Elizabeth Gray. Recording Secretary Hildegard Lindstrom Aleasa J. Hogate Marianne E. Mackenzie Anna Leslie Long , of Cramerton, NC, descends from Johan Andersson Stalcop and Mary W. McCoy his wife Christina Carlsdotter through their son Pietter Stalcop and his wife Historian Alfred J. Nicolosi Catherine Samualsdotter. The Rev. Dr. Kim-Eric Williams Sandra S. Pfaff Henry Ellison Long , of Cramerton, NC, descends from Johan Andersson Stalcop Curator Edith A. Rohrman and his wife Christina Carlsdotter through their son Pietter Stalcop and his wife Beverly B. Walker Ellen T. Rye Catherine Samualsdotter. Archivist Earl E. Seppälä Edward R. Root, M.D. Katarina K. Sheronas Ann Marie Matwick , of Peachtree City, GA, descends from Peter Nilsson Laicon Susan B. Spackman (Lykins) and wife Catherine and through their son Anders Nilsson Lykins who Marshal Larry S. Stallcup married Anneka Johnason (Johnson) and through their son, Peter Lykins and his Alfred B. Capotosto Richard Steadham wife Sarah Jones. Chaplain Margaretha Talerman Michael Morgan Stranix , of Swarthmore, PA, descends from Jonas Nilsson and The Rev. D. Joy Segal Gertrude Svensdotter Nilsson through their son, Jonathan Jonasson and his wife Mary, and the latter’s son, William Jones who married Elizabeth Gray. Robert Taylor Stranix , of Swarthmore, PA, descends from Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Svensdotter Nilsson through their son, Jonathan Jonasson and his wife Mary, and the latter’s son, William Jones who married Elizabeth Gray. David MacLeod Taylor , of Wallingford, PA, descends from Jonas Nilsson and Gertrude Svensdotter Nilsson through their son, Jonathan Jonasson and his wife Mary, and the latter’s son, William Jones who married Elizabeth Gray.
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The Society has published New Sweden on the Delaware, a photo book of all the important historic sites in the Delaware Valley associated with the first Swedes and Finns. It was released at a gala book-signing that helped kick off the 375th Jubliee Celebration. See page eight for the complete story and photos of the event.
Society Issues New Sweden 375th Jubilee Commemorative Pins
THE SWEDISH COLONIAL SOCIETY, as part of its celebration of the 375th New Sweden 375th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Swedes and Finns and the Founding of Jubilee Commemorative New Sweden Colony, has issued limited edition commemorative lapel pins. Lapel Pins The die struck and gold plated commemorative pins contain an image of the Kalmar can be purchased at Nyckel surrounded by a blue enameled border with “Swedes and Finns in America” www.colonialswedes.org and “1638-2013.” The pins are available in either antique gold or gilt (shiny) gold finishes. Antique or Shiny Finish: Perfect for Christmas stocking stuffers, graduation or other occasion gifts to children $20.00 each, two for $35.00 and grandchildren, the special commemorative pin is a quality item Society members will be proud to wear and keep as a treasured memento of the historic founding of Shipping the New Sweden Colony. 1-4 Pins: $3.75 Proceeds from the sale of the New Sweden 375th Commemorative Pins benefit the 5 or more: Society’s Jubilee Fund for educational and event projects. $1.00 each additional pin