New Sweden
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige, Finnish: Uusi-Ruotsi) was a Swedish colony in North America that existed from 1638 through 1655.[1] It was in what are now the US states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Its capital was Fort Christina, now in Wilmington.
New Sweden Nya Sverige | |||||||||||
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| 1638–1655 | |||||||||||
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 Map of New Sweden ca. 1650 by Amandus Johnson | |||||||||||
| Status | Swedish colony | ||||||||||
| Capital | Fort Christina | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Swedish, Finnish | ||||||||||
| King/Queen of Sweden | |||||||||||
• 1632–1654 | Christina | ||||||||||
• 1654–1660 | Charles X Gustav | ||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||
• 1638 | Peter Minuit | ||||||||||
• 1638–1640 | Måns Nilsson Kling | ||||||||||
• 1640–1643 | Peter Hollander Ridder | ||||||||||
• 1643–1653 | Johan Björnsson Printz | ||||||||||
• 1653–1654 | Johan Papegoja | ||||||||||
• 1654–1655 | Johan Risingh | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Colonial period | ||||||||||
• | 1638 | ||||||||||
• | 1655 | ||||||||||
| 1655 | |||||||||||
| Currency | Swedish riksdaler | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |  United States | ||||||||||
New Sweden was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and incorporated into New Netherland.
New Sweden Media
The C. A. Nothnagle Log House in Gibbstown, New Jersey, built in 1638 in New Sweden, is the oldest house in New Jersey.
A U.S. Postal stamp commemorating the founding of Wilmington, Delaware, once part of New Sweden (1938)
Old Swedes Church, built in the era of New Sweden, in Swedesburg, Pennsylvania
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Map of New Sweden, c. 1638; modern-day state boundaries are also shown.
Little Catechism of Martin Luther translated into local Native American languages by Swede Johannes Campanius (from 1696).
References
Other websites
Media related to New Sweden at Wikimedia Commons
