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The Swedish government protested the annexation of New Sweden but did not attempt to regain the colony. [8] New Sweden was incorporated into New Netherland and reorganized into three districts: New Amstel (present-day New Castle, Delaware), Hoornkill (present-day Lewes, Delaware), and Christina (present-day Wilmington, Delaware). [4]
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas.
The Swedish West India Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden. [2] A small, short-lived colonial settlement, it was lost to the Dutch in New Netherland in 1655. [2]
The tree had been extinct since 1709-10 following a severe winter in Sweden, but had survived in America because a colonist took its seeds to New Sweden in 1640. The first planting in Sweden was financed by the King, and Rambo apple trees were planted in a number of significant locations in Sweden and America.
The C. A. Nothnagle Log House (c. 1638) in New Jersey is one of the oldest surviving houses from the New Sweden colony and is one of the oldest log cabins and houses in the U.S. The first Swedish Americans were the settlers of New Sweden: a colony established by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Thursday to forward New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to the full Senate for a vote. The floor ...
The colony of New Sweden lay along the Delaware River, a territory claimed but not settled by Dutch New Netherland. The Swedish colonists were the preferred trading partners of the Susquehannock , who at that time were the most powerful indigenous group in the Susquehanna River valley and rivals to the Iroquois Confederacy further north.
Two former Ohio Supreme Court justices say voter-approved changes to curb partisan gerrymandering failed because of one simple reason: self-serving politicians.