Peter Gunnarsson Rambo

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Peter Gunnarsson Rambo
Born(1611-06-10)10 June 1611
Wicaco, Pennsylvania
, United States
Occupation(s)Farmer, justice of the peace

Peter Gunnarsson Rambo (10 June 1611,

Rambo's Rock along the Schuylkill River is named for his family.[2]

History with New Sweden

At the age of twenty-seven, Peter Gunnarsson sailed to New Sweden on the second voyage of the

freeman by 1644. He sent a portion of his wages home to his father, Gunnar Petersson, and referred to himself (and others) as "We, ye antient (sic) Swedes," indicators that his ancestry was thoroughly Swedish.[3]
Gunnarsson means "son of Gunnar", an old first name of Swedish origin.

Rambo married Brita Matsdotter from

Kingsessing, but moved by 1669 to Passyunk on the northeast side of the Schuylkill River.[4]

Rambo was present when the Dutch besieged

New Netherlands
.

He was adaptable as the local political situation changed. In 1668, when the colony fell under English jurisdiction, Rambo became a member of the governor's council. In 1674, he was commissioned a justice of the peace.[5][6]

Rambo, along with Peter Cock and others, was selected by his fellow Swedish settlers to greet their new governor, William Penn, when he arrived at "Upland", now Chester, Pennsylvania, when their colony was taken over by the British on 27 October 1682. Rambo was a witness to Penn's treaty with the Indians for the purchase of land west of the original boundaries of Philadelphia.[2]

A letter he wrote in 1693 to a sister in Gothenburg has been preserved at the Royal Archives in Sweden (Riksarkivet).

Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia, is named for Gunnar Rambo, one of Peter's descendants.[2]

Origin of the name

Olsson (1995) says that the surname Rambo can be translated as "raven's nest" (ramn+bo). It was chosen for Ramberget (or "Raven Mountain") on the island of Hisingen, which today is part of Gothenburg.[8] Ramberget was called Ramboberget (Rambo Mountain) on Swedish maps from the 17th century.[9]

Rambo apple

Summer Rambo
. Because of the confusion, the Rambo has also been called the Winter Rambo.

The novelist David Morrell says that he chose the name John Rambo for his First Blood action hero because he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name. He encountered the Rambo apples in Pennsylvania.

See also

  • Swedish colonization of the Americas

References

  1. ^ "History of the Kalmar Nyckel".
  2. ^ a b c Governor's Profile
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4343-3707-8
    .
  4. ^ Pennsylvania Historical Publishing Association (1907). Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal. p. 75.
  5. ^ DuPuy, Charles Meredith; DuPuy, Herbert (1910). A Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. pp. 92–93.
  6. ^ Peter Gunnarsson Rambo (by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig. Swedish Colonial News, Volume 1, Number 2. Fall 1990) "Peter Gunnarsson Rambo". Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  7. ^ Craig, Peter Stebbins (1993). The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. Winter Park, FL: Swedish American Genealogist Publication. pp. 26–28.
  8. ^ Nils William Olsson , Swedish American Genealogist, Volumes 15-16 (1995), p. 79 [1]: "chose his surname (meaning raven's nest) from Ramberget (raven's mountain), a prominent hill in Hisingen overlooking Goteborg harbor. After becoming a freeman, Peter Rambo married Brita Matsdotter from Vasa, Finland, 7 April 1647".
  9. ^ https://www.expressen.se/gt/har-foddes-den-riktige-rambo/
  10. ^ Kalm, Peter (1937). Travels in North America. New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc. pp. 712–713.

Other sources

  • Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. Swedes in America, 1638–1938 (The Swedish American Tercentenary Association. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1938)
    ISBN 978-0-8383-0326-9

External links
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