NOVA SVECIA: Sweden's Forgotten American Empire(1637-1655)

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This is the story of New Sweden, a brief colony established by Sweden on the Delaware River in modern-day Pennsylvania, US.
Sources
Nya Sverige - Algot Mattsson
Sveriges historia: 1600-1721 - Norstedts
Svenska folkets underbara öden - Carl Grimberg
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Timestamps
0:00 Tobacco, Mercantilism, and the Psychoactive Revolution
2:38 Colonization in the 17th Century
4:35 The first expedition
9:36 The settlers
11:47 Native relations
13:48 Printz arrival
16:04 Religious issues
18:00 Printz leaves
21:28 Risingh's term
23:40 The Dutch invasion
#history #vikings #pirates

[@johnschools6617]

The Swede/Finn contributions to South Jersey are everywhere if you look. Log cabin construction, believed to be quintessential American, was introduced by the New Sweden colonists. The oldest existing log cabin in North America, the Nothnagle House, is located in Gibbstown NJ. It has been dated to between 1638 and 1643 and is still occupied. Towns with names like Swedesboro, Repaupo, and Mullica Hill are here with documented association with New Sweden.

[@MsCaleb79]

Sweden and Finland was one country until 1809.

[@johnschools6617]

@@MsCaleb79 Very true up to a point. Finland was ruled by the Swedish Crown from about 1150 to 1809. Note that the Swedes and the Finns speak different languages and have totally different identities and origins. Swedish is an Indo-European language while Finnish is a Finno-Urgric language. I would also venture that log cabin construction originated with the Finns.

[@jamesgardner6499]

Even Philadelphia’s city flag bears the colors of the Swedish flag.

[@danhanqvist4237]

@@johnschools6617 I think you need to refresh your history. The Swedish Crown never ruled, and never sought to rule, a monolingual people. The Crown has almost always ruled people of various languages. There's a very large Finnish-speaking minority in present-day Sweden that are not immigrants but just as indigenous as anyone else. The Scandinavian Crowns have always sought to rule the Sámi. Sweden had Estonian-, Latvian- and German speaking subjects. Language is not a relevant factor here. The border between Sweden and Finland has no deeper historical significant. It's simply where the Muscovite troops stood at the armistice.

[@danhanqvist4237]

The log-cabin came in later with the immigrants in the 19th Century. And I rather suspect that the Norwegians would have had a hand in that too.

[@birchleaf]

The Swedish settler Rambo had brought apple seeds with him, and a variety known as Rambo apples later spread throughout Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. When the author David Morrell was writing his book First Blood his wife brought home some Rambo apples. David thought it was a good name and decided to use it for the main protagonist in the book, so there is a connection, albeit not very direct, between the Swedish settler and the character played by Stallone in the movie.

[@bjorreb7487]

They took the name Rambo because they came from Ramberget (Ram mountin) in Gothemburg Sweden. The ship Calmar Nyckel you have there is a replica of the ship that made many crossings between Sweden and Delaware.

[@fulton560]

He was my ancestor. I’m glad New Sweden was included on a plaque on Independence Hall.

[@Lemanic89]

@@bjorreb7487 The Gothenburg film studios resides just a few blocks away from Ramberget too.

[@79klkw]

I love these sort of factoids! I tended bar for years, and I am good at trivia. Suppose this is why! 😂

[@borivoy]

@@fulton560 Mine too, cousin!

[@scallopohare9431]

Can't wait! My guy got here in 1620. Nothing anecdotal about New Sweden, though there is an 18 year gap in official accounts. Gonna elaborate before the video goes up. There is the American Swedish Museum in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Their library had a reference that lists 13 boatloads of colonists sent to North America. Some were lost. I was on a weekend excursion, so I did not make notes, sorry, no proper citation. They had passenger manifests, which included a 10 year old orphan. That's my ancestor, and I figure he got up somebody's nose to get slung on a ship to the New World. Grew up, joined rebellion against tyranical governor, fled to the English colony of Maryland. Tracked down by Swedes, English refused to extradite him, and here I am.

[@arcadecaptainYT]

As a Delaware resident, this is much appreciated 👍

[@saltytexan123]

As a texan please take your grandpa back. He is tired.

[@arcadecaptainYT]

@@saltytexan123 nah he can stay in the White House, every time he comes back it backs up all the traffic

[@azrael7891]

​@@saltytexan123username checks out 😅😂

[@timstradley5819]

@@saltytexan123we don’t want him either lol but if it makes you feel any better I live in his “hometown” of Claymont and Trump flags/signs still outnumber Biden probably 5:1 😂😂

[@CreativeHuckleBerry]

As a poor man from Finland, please shutdown the Debt slave system aka Deepstate in America aka The World Bank thank you. Wallenberg in Sweden don't answear the phone.

[@griffin.xxxxxx]

My ancestors moved to New Netherlands in the 1630s after the Sacking of Magdeburg and one of them died in the same shipwreck as Willem Kieft (“governor” of New Netherlands) I love colonial history thank you for this video, this and Gold and Gunpowder are such great channels.

[@telebubba5527]

As a Dutch person, I find this very interesting, since we don't learn any of this at school. For us it's one of those 'forgotten pages of history'. I hope that many Dutch get to see this and learn a bit more about their history.

[@jamesgardner6499]

I see many contributions by the Dutch in upstate NY. Many places names are derived from Dutch names. Albany, NY’s city flag has some resemblance to the Dutch flag.

[@jonahs4819]

@@jamesgardner6499Not just upstate, NYC itself is also overflowing with Dutch places. Brooklyn (Breuckelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Greenwich Village (Grenen Wijk), Coney Island (Konijneneiland), Long Island (Lange Eylandt), the Bowery (Bouwerij), Bushwick (Boswijk), and countless others. All were originally named by the Dutch.

[@Jeppie_NL]

Boardway (Breed weg of Breedeweg)

[@JohnDoe-fu6zt]

The Dutch language was spoken in some small towns in New York into the 19th Century. Dutch was the first language of the eighth President of the United States, Martin van Buren.

[@KaraZiasapiens]

Two of our greatest Presidents*, and greatest First Ladies*, can be traced back to the Netherlands, and were some of the first settlers of Manhattan. In fact, they bought their property in Manhattan from my Van Slycke ancestors. *The Roosevelts, originally called something like Rosen Velt (?)

[@stevewheeler6118]

Great job. As a US history teacher I can tell you that the Swedes (and Finns) don't get much attention in American history classes and textbooks; they get less than the Dutch, and the Dutch don't get much. About all that gets said is that the Delaware Colony was first settled by Swedes, but the colony remained small and was absorbed by the Dutch New Netherland Colony.

[@thecreweofthefancy]

THANK YOU! This is making me want to go back through southern New Jersey and take a closer look at some of the sites I've briefly stopped at before. There is a barn of all things in Greenwich, NJ which has its roots in New Sweden.

[@AlbanianDogma]

As a Swedish and Finnish American this is dope . I wish there was more information on the later migrationa to the Upper Miderst in the 1800's. From what my grandparents and extended family say, a decent amount still spoke Finnish in their local communities into the 1900's.

[@k.s.1871]

you bet ! I'm sure the volume of Swedes and Finns that immigrated in the late 1800s dwarf the numbers descended from those originally settled NJ . Opportunities were scarce in old Sweden and Finland . The author of this video has obviously never been to MN -- but the Swedish king and queen have !

[@joannesmith2484]

@@k.s.1871 King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia also visited Bridgeton, NJ, part of old New Sweden, in 1988. And the author of this video didn't ignore the Upper Midwest Swedish immigration. He said that was for a later video, if there is interest. It is a different, story, separated by more than a century. If you'll notice, he references New Sweden as "forgotten." And it is by most except those who live there. Even by our Minnesota cousins.😘

[@veronicaroach3667]

@@k.s.1871 Nobody is trying to say that these were the only Swedes & Finns - we all know there were masses of others who came later, but since all we ever seem to hear about is 'the Pilgrims' of MA in the 1600's it is nice to see some recognition of other nationalities that came here too.

[@gcioo-4488]

A Swedish and Finnish American with an Albanian flag??

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Very interested in this anecdotal colony, which nevertheless left a small Swedish and Finnish population in North America. (As a small warning for those clicking sources in the link, Louhi's writings of New Sweden are good and reliable, so it is not really about the theme of this video, but his introduction talk of ancient mighty "Uralic" peoples is pretty unscientific pseudo-history and in line with other such myths of the 1920s era.) Anyway, lovely to get coverage of this little colony! Perhaps I should prep my Swedish by taking look at some of the books mentioned there. Anyway, Cheers! ⛵

[@johanmetreus1268]

" is pretty unscientific pseudo-history " In what manner is it unscientific? Thesis was formed and published, and upheld as truth until disproven and replaced in the same manner most other truths of the past have been replaced.

[@great.933]

I feel that the video is a basis of Mutual love among Minnesota and Delaware, since Minnesota has the highest amount of descendants of Swedish-Americans, close to 25%.

[@lloydirland7006]

Great videos. My grandfather Axel Birger Corell came to US in about 1909 and became a citizen about 1920. My mom studied music in Stockholm in 1939 and In West Chicago where Grampa Axel lived, they would gather on Sundays to talk in Swedish. I still bake limpa. Would love to see your comments on the migrations. Lloyd Irland Wayne Maine

[@johnschools6617]

If you spent any time in South Jersey near present day Salem, where Fort Elfsborg is believed to have been located, you wouldn't laugh at "Fort Mosquito"!

[@marcierichie5644]

Interesting to hear more information on my Swedish and Finnish ancestors and to hear a shout out to two of them, Sven Skute and Peter Rambo.

[@Pyresh]

This was so informative! Thank you for this chill historical content ❤

[@justsomedude5727]

Love these videos, been binging them all week

[@carolynlancaster3273]

So interesting to see your take on New Sweden, I have two Swedish and one Finnish ancestral lines that came to New Sweden prior to 1655. Every day in recent years I am discovering more of what we were never taught in school. Glad to see that New Sweden is becoming better known in recent years. My Mom was a 12th generation Philly girl, but I was the one who first told her she was partially Swedish and Finnish. Thank you for this.

[@scallopohare9431]

If you see a "Rolling Road" in the Mid-Atlantic states, it was for rolling barrels of tobacco down to the nearest harbor. There is one such road outside Baltimore, MD.

[@nothanks9503]

Oh shit that’s the one I was thinking of

[@nothanks9503]

I’m from that little area circled on the map too double ironic

[@billywiththebulgingbaloonb5105]

Tack så mycket! There is a great Swedish comic book called Johan Wilde ("Johan the Wildman") which is set during the age of Swedish colonialist expansion. Even though it's set in Africa and not America, it's still a great story about a period in Swedish history that many people have forgotten.

[@annikamyren3026]

Itror de flesta svenskar kan sin historia ....

[@PUAlum]

This was so good! Thanks for posting.

[@devingunnels3251]

History and memes are a winning combination. You've got yourself a new subscriber.

[@stephanottawa7890]

Yes, I would love to learn more about the Swedes and Finns in America and Canada.

[@JonDoeNeace]

They're not Canadian dude. Stop it.

[@JonDoeNeace]

Britta Mansdotter was a descendant of Forest Finns from Vassa, Finland, arrived in 1639, my ancestor.

[@JonDoeNeace]

A long with several others.

[@JonDoeNeace]

They never had anything to do with Canada.

[@JonDoeNeace]

The colony collapsed in 20 years. It's descendants went to Pennsylvania.

[@AJK967]

In Delaware there is a full size tall ship replica of the Kalmar Nykel, the flagship of the Swedish settlers to the Mid-Atlantic coast of the Americas.

[@ariannedechateaumichel7777]

My family's from Pennsylvania (since colonial times), and a recent DNA test my mom did shows that we have Swedish ancestry amid the known German, French, and English ancestry. When I heard we were part Swedish, I assumed those ancestors were either medieval Northmen (Vikings) or later arrivals to America, but some of them could be these colonists.

[@Purple-durple]

Love the video so far u should make one about the Pomeranian Princedom

[@Artur_M.]

Great video!

[@georgefrench1907]

A video on the Swedish migration to America would be very welcome. The mass emigrations of the Scottish crofters and Irish smallholders both had economic and feudal causes. It would be interesting to compare those to the mass emigrations from Scandinavia. (The films of Ingmar Bergman suggest there were many similarities.)

[@IIS73f0II]

There is both a new and older movie about this called The Emigrants in Eng (i belive),Utvandrarna in Swedish, it is based on the book writen by Vilhelm Moberg in 1971 and it is a part of a trio and considred a national treasure in Sweden.

[@dldove22]

Thank you for this video. I traced back two ancestors to this colony. I also greatly enjoyed the new artwork of the colony.

[@gunnargronvall9385]

I am a Swedish Australian , I did know about 5his colony, but not all the details of its history Thank you for this !

[@thormusique]

Fascinating history, cheers!

[@newandoldtech5634]

Topic fo another episode? Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post, established in 1555, which they named Cabo Corso. In 1653, the Swedish Africa Company constructed a timber fort there. It originally was a centre for the trade in timber and gold. It was later used in the Atlantic slave trade.[1] Other Ghanaian slave castles include Elmina Castle and Fort Christiansborg. They were used to hold enslaved Africans before they were loaded onto ships and sold in the Americas, especially the Caribbean. This "gate of no return" was the last stop before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.[2] Cape Coast Castle, along with other forts and castles in Ghana, are included on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their testimony to the Atlantic gold and slave trades.[3]

[@lindat4294]

I am black American. My DNA shows a bit of Scandinavian on both sides. I tried researching, but hit a dead end. I wonder where and possibly when this came about.

[@codycigar]

Very interesting video, never knew that Sweden had colonial aspirations. Also cool that they did have a colony, no matter how short lived here. Time to do a deep dive in to this channel.

[@RigepFroggit]

Not everybody left either when the colony disbanded and the Dutch took over the area. I can trace my ancestry back to one of those colonists, who ended up leaving the colony and taking a native wife and living as a roaming trapper in Native controlled territory.

[@Jonsson474]

To many Swedish wars were fought in Europe so enough funds to establish and develop the colonies in the Americans were never available. Without the wars it might have been a different story.

[@jonasnordstrom1169]

Sweden also had colonies in Africa during the 1600:s and later in the 18th century Sweden ruled over St Barthelemy and was regrettably deeply involved in the slave trade. A dark part of our history.

[@johnspizziri1919]

Interesting channel. Thank you.

[@paulbahn4577]

Thanks. Very informative. I learned new history.

[@ccsullivan9164]

I love this video (especially some of the snarky chuckles) and my interest is heightened since I learned within the last month that my ancestry is 20% Swedish! A native New Yorker I was well aware of the Dutch history of my home town but what a treasure to discover our Swedish antecedents. Many thanks! Forgive the comment, but it’s stricken not smitten.😊❤

[@kapiteindonut]

As a Dutchman I learned in history class that New Amsterdam was bought with shiny things from the natives and later on traded for Suriname with the English. Never knew Sweden was involved...

[@TravelwithMark]

The island of Rum in Indonesia was part of the deal. The Dutch wanted it for the spices

[@kapiteindonut]

@jonnyneace8928 well actually there are records of Swedish ships in the slavetrade employed by Dutch and English companies

[@richardstever3242]

I really like the illustrations. I reminds me of when I was a kid, excited about learning.

[@StMiBll]

The Swedish colony on Delaware was how one of my earliest ancestors in America got here in 1648.

[@borivoy]

Thank you for this very interesting and informative video about the history of New Sweden. Peter Rambo (1612-1698) was my 9th great-grandfather.

[@derlingerardclair6252]

A quite interesting Video about the brief Swedish Empire in America.

[@hostoftheseawitch3431]

Kiitoksia paljon!

[@MAC2legion]

I am from northern sweden, close to finland. And didnt know any of this. Great work, kompis

[@bertrandlechat4330]

The town of Lewes, Delaware is home to the Zwaanendale Museum, which houses some of the earliest Dutch and Swedish artifacts.

[@okancanarslan3730]

amazing documentary

[@maritavestin7617]

Liked story, your voice is recognize with special accent. Very pleasant😊

[@PandaBear62573]

I am decended from these early Swedish ancestors and the newer one's in the late 1800's. My maternal grandmother's parents were both born in Sweden and immigrated when they were children with their families through Boston. My maternal grandfathers side has been in America much longer. My sister found records showing an ancestor shipwrecked in the Delaware, when she came ashore she was captured by the Native Americans, sent to New Amsterdam who sent her back to Sweden. Her husband died in the shipwreck.

[@InssiAjaton]

Hugely more detailed narration than what our history books and teacher taught. However, there was no mention of the 30-year war (ended in 1648) that severely taxed the Swedish/Finnish economies. The "Snow King" died in fight of Luzen, 1632 and his daughter was under age, so the government was in the hands of the (actually mentioned) caretaker. Thanks for the rest of the details!

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Slash and burn resulted to much better harvest than field farming of the era. The down side was that much of forest was needed, and in the same time in Europe, navies required a lot of timber. Finns were the last Europeans who still practised slash and burn, much due to plenty of forests and low population count, it was still doable in Northern Europe. King Gustav Vasa invited Finns to move into Sweden Proper's uninhabited forests to practice their livelyhood. But in time even in Sweden it became an undesired livelyhood because the need of timber. In most extreme, Finns in Sweden Proper became outlaws, who could be persecuted and killed, because the state wanted timber more than the grain.

[@zoranocokoljic8927]

There was an antic book store whose owners were allowing me to read in the store the books that were too expensive for me to buy. One of these books was (1914 college textbook?) about the history of USA. It mentioned - the only history book I'm aware of that did - some Swedish settlements in America. That's the reason I'm aware of Swedish attempts of colonization. I also know that Danes, apart from Greenland, had an island in the Caribbean's, which they latter sold to the British; and Kurland (vasal state of Polish crown, located in modern Lithuania) tried to colonize without much success islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

[@danhanqvist4237]

It is interesting that the Bronx is named for a Swede who left the Swedish commercial navy and joined the Dutch and ended up owning land in New Amsterdam.

[@elder1737]

His name was Jonas Bronk. Apparently he had a house on a hill that got known as The Bronx, which got Dutchified as The Bronx.

[@elder1737]

My spell check interfered. The house was known at first as The Bronk,

[@tnekkc]

My grandparents immigrated from Sweden ~1900. My grandfather was half Finnish. My second cousin immigrated from Sweden ~1980. 7 of my relatives are engineers, ostensibly from my Swedish grandmother's genes... Marie Jansson

[@craigshagin5506]

I grew up in a Dutch town in northern New Jersey. The family names of Dutchmen peppered our classes and the Dutch Reform Church had a graveyard dating back to the 1600s I remember going thru the yard with a friend when i was quite young to see who knew who in life. There would only be a few families alive in some years…the shocking revelation as a child was to see how many children died before five; most men before fifty; many women between 16 and 25 but if they made it past the child bearing years might live to 100.

[@andrewliberman7694]

Thanks!

[@balticempire7244]

thank you so much

[@aivarasdarulis]

Interesting chanell. I imagine you focus on the Middle Ages and Renessance, though it would be interesting to see and hear about history of 20th Century of the region. Things like Baltic SS volunteers that fled to Sweden from Courland and got handed back to the Soviets (in 1990’s King of Sweden invited the remaining soldiers alive and issued an apology), and other things like that, maybe that would be a slightly different format, shorter videos maybe, but still interesting. Hello from Lithuania.

[@dominiccairo9530]

Hello, I recently found your channel and rather enjoy your content. As an American descended from one of those who came here during the famines during the mid-1800 I for one would be interested in such a video.

[@you-know-who9023]

Very interesting! Like most people I was of the understanding that the Ditch were more active in that tegion at that time. I had heard minor references to Swedish colonialism around the Americas but not much more.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Fascinating.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Another New Castle County, Delaware resident - thank you!

[@lairdcummings9092]

A decade back, their Royal Majesties, Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia visited Wilmington and New Castle; my daughter had the honor of a brief conversation with the queen.

[@daveransom1805]

FYI, I believe that the Lenape and the Delaware are the same tribe, the Delaware being what the English called them. We learned about Peter Minuet in 4th-grade state history many years ago, and I my folks lived in Christiana Hundred, while friends attended Old Swede's Church. Men Wilmington är inte Svensk nu.

[@mrbaab5932]

Yes, I am 3% Lenape from the Dutch county of Orange in New York state.

[@daveransom1805]

@@mrbaab5932 Ah-ha! I am 3% English from the Dutch county of Ulster in New York state! And there are a large number of Ransoms among the Mohawks, for reasons none of us can figure out.

[@rebamayo2785]

My maternal great grandmother was full blood Lenni Lenape. My family on my mother's side is Lenape, Chinese, African and Caucasian. Excellent video. Gracias.

[@runeguidanceofthenorse]

Good video

[@retrieveri]

Fun fact. John Morton signed the US Declaration of Independence. His family was among the first settlers. His family spoke Finnish and his name was Juho Marttinen. The church records In Sweden/Finland were in Swedish and in those he was Johan Mårtensson. And in America John Morton.

[@ashmac5927]

Great use of the total war empire music

[@deansch6089]

I recognize this voice! You do amazing work over at Gold and Gunpowder. How many channels do you have?

[@bearlogg7974]

Its Swedish tradition to have something of enormous potential, missmanage it and forget about it ever happening as to not look dumb

[@amadeusamwater]

Thoroughly enjoyed your video, I like your style. One of Washington's most effective units was his Delaware riflemen, I wonder how many of them were Swedes?

[@lairdcummings9092]

Very few, if any, directly. By descent, quite a few. Delaware has a history of producing fierce combat units; the 1st Delaware had a ferocious reputation during the Civil War.

[@amadeusamwater]

Had a pretty good reputation during the Revolution, too. @@lairdcummings9092

[@bertrandlechat4330]

Delaware Soldiers in the Revolution were called the Blue Hen's Chickens after a prolific fighting cock. The University of Delaware's sports teams are always the Blue Hens.

[@amadeusamwater]

Don't mess with them Blue Hens....@@bertrandlechat4330

[@lairdcummings9092]

@@bertrandlechat4330 reason being that the officer organizing the first Delaware unit was a dedicated fighting cock breeder and fighter. His "Fighting Blue Gamecocks" were, and are, HUGE, vividly blue, and VERY aggressive - much like the soldiers he recruited.

[@Nitroaereus]

Would definitely love to see a video about 19th Century Swedish immigration to the US. Kind of a wild population transfer in scale when you think about it, but hardly not discussed much in the US, at least to my knowledge.

[@therealzilch]

Fascinating history, completely unknown to this American transplanted to Europe. Well done. Subscribed. cheers and looking forward to seeing more of your videos, from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@gringopapi6985]

Hey, love your channel. For future reference in Swedish 16 century refers to the period 1600-1699 while in English it refers to 1500-1599.

[@balticempire7244]

did I get it wrong at any point in the video? I can't find it in my script

[@gringopapi6985]

​@@balticempire7244 around 9 min 50 sec.

[@Jonsson474]

I think you’re confusing “16:e århundradet” (16th century) with ”1600-talet” which is not the same thing.

[@yewtoob2007]

I always thought Rambo was a spelling of the French name Rambeau. Thanks for educating me!

[@balticempire7244]

might still be and those names might be related

[@JanoTuotanto]

Rambo - Romppainen, Cox- Kokkinen Coleman- Kolehmainen Morton - Marttinen Rawson - Räisänen Tussey - Tossavainen Seneca - Sinikka Vanneman - Väinämö are descendants of Delaware Finns

[@ronaldwinfield307]

Yes that would be interesting to me. Even though I have no Swedish or Finnish ancestry I still think they are interesting & beautiful people.

[@vickilindberg6336]

American history I've never heard. Thank you.

[@AntCakeforLife]

Never forget the battle of Myggenborg, one day we’ll defeat those enemies of the empire

[@theprinceofsnj]

I believe the brick church and log cabin pictured at around 27:56 is located in the town of Swedesboro N.J. We had Swedish royalty visit in the 1970's.

[@faderneslandet3489]

Treating your subjects well pays off in the end, as the natives proved when exacting revenge on the Dutch for the attack on New Sweden.

[@Brakvash]

I doubt it was bc of the destruction of New Sweden and more because the Dutch *genocided* american natives.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

I've read the Finns had an outsized influence both among the various European colonists AND some Native American populations. Apparently, they populerized the log cabin . . . .

[@JasperKlijndijk]

RULE IKEA

[@ludwiglindholm5054]

Couldn’t help but notice the empire total war soundtrack

[@craigshagin5506]

The “Delaware” were not an Indian tribe. The name derives from Lord Delaware from England. There is in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey the Delaware River. The Leni-Lenape lived along the river and hence are sometimes referred to as the Delaware Indians although there were other agricultural peoples that lived there. There are all sorts of remnants of Swedish settlements in this area - Tinicum; swedesboro: Swedetown and so on.

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

all my relations. came over mid-1800's and went straight to Minnesota!!

[@stevenwilgus5422]

I was born and raised in the New Jersey portion of New Sweden. Also, raised Lutheran.

[@gunnargronvall9385]

Point Australia wasn’t “ discovered “ until Captain Cook landed in what is now NSW in 1770.

[@MsCaleb79]

Tobacko is very much a sacred herb

[@Survivethejive]

Hilarious and informative

[@tomcarl8021]

I digress, but a Swedish socialist was debating an American Free-Market economist in the 1970's. The socialist said, "In Sweden, we have no crime or poverty". The American economist answered, " In America, among Swede's, they have no crime or poverty either. In fact, Americans of Swedish ancestry, have twice, or more, the standard of living as the average Swede".

[@francisdec1615]

Sweden isn't socialist. It just has rigid laws and is a welfare state. A real socialist society wouldn't have gun control or laws against victimless crimes.

[@telebubba5527]

@@francisdec1615 He never said that Sweden was a socialist country. Read it again. It did have however a socialist government for many years and they did make it into a welfare state of which everyone is really proud. Gun control has got nothing to do with socialism and can be applied by any government. And what the hell are 'laws against victimless crimes?'.

[@nikoborz5854]

Please make a Video about The Victual Brothers, Vitalien Brothers or Vitalian Brethren or Vitalienbrüder

[@rtoddpartridge8737]

Small point of correction; "Delaware" is the English name for the Lenape, thus referring the same tribe of people. I'm a descendant of both a colonist of New Sweden who was killed in an attack by American Indians and later in the early 1800's, up in the Hudson Valley, a Lenape woman who married an white American.

[@mathiasjonsson8222]

Sweden had a short lived colony in Africa as well - Cabo Corso. Yes, it was for slave trade.

[@yoda5565]

An original log cabin from the 1600's remains, and is open to the public in Swedesboro, New Jersey. The Swedes should have tried growing tomatoes, instead of tobacco. It's a South Jersey thing.

[@Nyllsor]

Najs!

[@kenolson6572]

AS the grandson of a native Swede, I am always interested in articles about Scandinavia, Particularly, I'd like to see a video about the history of the parts of Sweden that were once Danish.

[@joepetto9488]

Everyone forgets the rebellion of the long Swede where a tall Swedish woodsman tried to start a revolt against the English, he was foiled by Finnish settlers who sold him out and arrested him.

[@keithmcintyre6403]

Fascinating!

[@BrianLevine-vd6bn]

I have commemorative coins from Sweden made in the '30's celebrating the colony.

[@MediaFaust]

The flag of Wilmington, Delaware obviously has some Swedish provenance.

[@jamesvandemark2086]

Trade, colonization, & piracy? Exactly what drew that first Dutch Van de Mark to North America in the 1600s........our ancestor.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

Not sure the Swedes had either "Mass" or "Priests," as opposed to "holy Communion{" and "Pastors."

[@ziloj-perezivat]

Probably not but to most atheists they're synonymous

[@Anaris10]

Optimum!. Did I hear Empire-Total War music?.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

The nice thing about alcohol is that it does not spoil or go bad . . . .

[@johnnybee4797]

The City Flag of Philadelphia is blue and yellow to honor the colonization by Sweden. Just a few miles from my house is the site of a Swedish blockhouse built in the 1630's, in today's Pennypack park.

[@maureennelson4513]

I just wrote a comment about that blockhouse. Peter Jochimmson, the progenitor of the Yocum.

[@maureennelson4513]

Documents and Translations of Documents. 757 Testimony of the Heirs of Mitatsimint. We the undersigned hfers of the deceased Sachem Mitatsimint give by this our writing the testimony that the land lying below Appachai- hackingh unto Mettocksinowousingh, belongs to no one else than to us, Peminacka being allowed to hunt upon Quinamkot but not as the owner to sell the same. We also know that the late Sachem Mitatsimint bargained about the said land with the Swedes, wherefore, for a con- firmation, we have desired, as the true heirs and owners, by this our drawn up contract to testify that no one else, be [it] what nation it may, has a right or pretention to dwell upon the aforesaid lands or to incorporate [them] than the Swedes alone, for which [lands] we also have been contended by them, like our deceased sachem and father. Besides [we] will show (prove) by the savages in the entire river that the aforesaid land has been the property not of Pemenacka but of Mitatsimint, and [this] we as his heirs herewith maintain for a testimony of the truth, subscribing [to it] with the marks of our own hands. Dated, Elsborgh, July 3, 1651. The mark of Kiapes the son of Mitatsimint. The mark of Notike the widow of Mitatsimint. The mark of the two children of Mitatsimint. As witnesses: Peter Johimson.

[@nuclearmaga9694]

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