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On 1 September, Swedish officials under the leadership of Salomon von Rajalin (1757–1825), the island's first Swedish governor, were appointed to administer the island. They sailed from Gothenburg on 4 December 1784 on the frigate Sprengtporten, arriving in Saint Barthélemy on 6 March 1785. In January 1785, the Swedish merchants Jacob Röhl ...
Map of New Sweden c. 1650 Seal of the Swedish governor of Saint Barthélemy, 1784–1878. By the middle of the 17th century, the Swedish Empire had reached its greatest territorial extent. The Swedes sought to extend their influence by creating an agricultural ( tobacco ) and fur trading colony to bypass French, English and Dutch merchants.
Gustavia, Swedish Saint Barthélemy Fredrik Carl Ulrich (June 19, 1808 – August 11, 1868) was a Swedish colonial administrator and civil servant who served as governor over Saint Barthélemy from 1858 to 1868, the only Swedish colony in the West Indies at the time.
S. Barthelemy under svenskt välde [St. Barthelemy under Swedish rule] (in Swedish). Almqvist & Wiksells. Pålsson, Ale (2016). Our Side of the Water: Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825 (PDF). Stockholm Studies in History. Stockholm University. ISBN 9789176493557. Wilson, Victor (2019).
The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy (1784–1878) was operated as a porto franco . The capital city of Gustavia retains its Swedish name. Guadeloupe (1813–1814) came into Swedish possession as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars. It gave rise to the Guadeloupe Fund. [6]
The French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy was a Swedish colony between 1784 and 1878, and the island's coat of arms includes the three crowns as part of the design. The German towns of Otterfing and Tegernsee in Bavaria use the three gold crowns on blue design on their coats-of-arms.
The last legally owned slaves in the Swedish colony of St. Barthélemy were granted their freedom by the state on 9 October 1847. [20] Since the island was not a plantation area, the freed slaves suffered economic hardships due to lack of opportunities for employment and many left to more prosperous islands, and few people of African descent ...
The fleurs-de-lis, Maltese Cross, and gold crowns are heraldic reminders of the island's history as a colony ruled by first the Kingdom of France, then the Knights Hospitaller and in turn the Kingdom of Sweden. Eventually, the island returned to French rule. On a white background, the arms serves as an unofficial flag for Saint Barthélemy.