Colonial Delaware Genealogy

In 1638, a number of Swedes formed the settlement of Christina on the Delaware, near Wilmington. They bought land from the Indians and named it New Sweden. A second settlement, that of Chester, was made just below the site of Philadelphia in 1643, and was the first in the present State of Pennsylvania. The fiery Governor Stuyvesant of New Netherland looked upon these attempts as impudent invasions of his territory, and, filled with anger, hurried down to Delaware and captured both. It was a matter of no moment to the thrifty Swedes, who kept on even tenor of their way and throve under the new government as well as under the old.

Source: A New History of the United States, The Greater Republic by Charles Morris, LL.D., W. E. Scull, 1899.

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