Swedish colonies in the Americas
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Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries.
North America
The colony of New Sweden was founded in 1638 by the first expedition of Swedish South Company, a consortium of Swedish, Dutch and German business interests formed in 1637.[1][2] The colony was located along the Delaware River with settlements in modern Delaware (e.g., Wilmington), Pennsylvania (e.g., Philadelphia) and New Jersey (e.g., New Stockholm and Swedesboro) along locations where Swedish and Dutch traders had been visiting for decades.[3]
At the time (until 1809)
While a Baltic naval power, the international power of the Swedish Empire was rooted in land-based military power, and when another general war engulfed northern Europe, the Royal Swedish Navy was incapable of protecting the colony. Subsequently, the young colony was eventually annexed by the Dutch, who perceived the presence of Swedish colonists in North America as a threat to their interests in the New Netherland colony.
Caribbean
The
Other settlements
Swedish emigrants continued to go to the Americas to settle within other countries or colonies. The mid-19th and early 20th centuries saw a large Swedish emigration to the United States. In 1841, a group composed of former Upsala University students and a couple of relatives established the first Swedish colony west of the Allegheny Mountains on the east shore of Pine Lake 30 miles west of Milwaukee and named their settlement, New Upsala. Approximately 1.3 million Swedes subsequently settled in the U.S., and there are currently about four million Swedish-Americans, as of 2008.[7]
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See also
- Swedish overseas colonies
- Possessions of Sweden
- Swedish Empire
- Colonial governors in 1816
- Swedish Argentines
References
- ^ a b "A Brief History of New Sweden in America (The Swedish Colonial Society)". Archived from the original on 2005-12-11. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
- ISBN 978-0-8071-5060-3.
- ^ a b See or copy American Heritage Book of Indian cites, Susquehannock peoples.
- ^ "A. R. Dunlap & E. J. Moyne. The Finnish Language on the Delaware. American Speech, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1952), pp. 81–90". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-05-12.
- ^ See text and cites of Province of Maryland#Relations with the Susquehannock
- ^ St. Barts island history Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (St.Barths Online)
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ Svenska Föreningen Historia Archived 2015-12-21 at the Wayback Machine (Svenska Föreningen)
Other sources
- Barton, H. Arnold (1994) A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840–1940. (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).
- ISBN 978-0-8383-0326-9
- Johnson, Amandus (1927) The Swedes on the Delaware (International Printing Company, Philadelphia)
Related reading
- Jameson, J. Franklin (1887) Willem Usselinx: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
External links
- The New Sweden Centre, museum tours and reenactors.
- Mémoire St Barth | History of St Barthélemy (archives & history of slavery, slave trade and their abolition), Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques.