News-Sweden

The News-Sweden ( Nya Sverige in Swedish) was a small Swedish colony located in North America, on the Atlantic coast, with the mouth of the Delaware. It belonged to the colonial empire Swedish. Founded in March 1638, it was annexed by the New-Country-Low in September 1655.

It was centered on Fort Christina, maintaining in Wilmington, with the Delaware and included/understood territories today in the states of Delaware, the New Jersey and the Pennsylvania. Beside Swedish, one found many colonists Finnish or Dutch.

List governors

The official residence of the governors of the Sweden News was Fort Christina except for Johan Björnsson Printz which elected residence on the island of the News-Gothenburg.

Pierre Midnight, Director named by the Company of the News Sweden (March 29th, 1638 - June 15th 1638)
Måns Nilsson Kling, Commander (June 15th, 1638 - April 1st 1640)
Peter Hollander Ridder, Commander (April 1st, 1640 - 1643)
Johan Björnsson Printz (February 1st, 1643 - October 1st 1653)
Johan Papegoya (October 1st, 1653 - May 1st 1654)
Johan Classon Rising (May 1st, 1654 - September 15th 1655)

See too

colonial Empire Swedish
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