Pennsylvania: Swedish American

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Background
The first Swedes in Pennsylvania came up the Delaware River from the early Swedish settlement called New Sweden. The Swedes from this settlement came in the 1600's from Sweden and settled first in Delaware and then spread to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. For more information on the history of New Sweden in America see: http://www.phila.gov/phils/carchive.htm

Pennsylvania Swedish Links

 * Pennsylvania Swedish Archives
 * Pennsylvania Swedish Cemeteries
 * Pennsylvania Swedish History
 * Pennsylvania Swedish Newspapers

Statewide Historical Societies
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-732-6200 Fax: 215-732-2680 Website: http://www.hsp.org/

Genealogical society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust St., 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699 Phone:(215) 545-0391 Fax: (215) 545-0936 Website: http://www.genpa.org/index.html

Swedish Colonial Society 916 South Swanson Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147-4332 www.ColonialSwedes.org

The American Swedish Historical Museum 1900 Pattison Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19145 Phone: 215-389-1776 Fax: 215-389-7701

Adams County
Adams County Historical Society P.O. Box 4325 Gettysburg, PA 17325 Phone:(717) 334-4723 Website: http://www.achs-pa.org/index.htm

Berks County
Historical Society of Berks County 940 Centre Avenue Phone: 610-375-4375 Henry Janssen Library 160 Spring Street Phone: 610-375-4375 Website: http://www.berkshistory.org/library/

Chester County
Chester County Historical Society The History Center 225 N. High Street West Chester, PA 19380-2691 Phone: 610-692-4800 Website: http://www.cchs-pa.org/index.php

Crawford County
Crawford County Historical Society PO Box 411 Meadville, PA 16335 Phone:(814) 724-6080 Email: [mailto:crawfordhistorical@zoominternet.net crawfordhistorical@zoominternet.net] Research request to: [mailto:cchsresearch@zoominternet.net cchsresearch@zoominternet.net]

Cumberland County
Cumberland County Historical Society 21 N. Pitt Street Carlisle, PA 17013 Website: http://www.historicalsociety.com/

Jefferson County
Jefferson County Historical Society 172-176 Main Street Brookville, PA 15825 Phone: 814-849-0077 Website: http://www.orgsites.com/pa/jeffersoncohistsoc/

Mercer County
Mercer County Historical Society 119 South Pitt Street Mercer, PA 16137 Phone: 724-662-3490 Website: http://www.mchspa.org/

Northampton County
Northampton County Historical &amp; Genealogical Society 107 South Fourth Street, Easton, PA 18042 Phone: (610) 253-1222 Fax: (610) 253-4701 Website: http://www.northamptonctymuseum.org/index.html

Websites

 * See article New Sweden


 * "New Sweden Settlers, 1638-1654" in Sweden Genealogy Links at http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/3d41indexe.htm (accessed 4 November 2008). Originally published in the Swedish American Genealogist vols. 16-19.
 * "List of the Swedish Families Residing in New Sweden in 1693 for Genealogy Research" in Colonial Ancestors at http://colonialancestors.com/de/families.htm (accessed 4 November 2008). 188 families, 932 persons.
 * "List of persons to the Colony of New Amstel, compiled from 'Return of Moneys paid for the Colonie on the Delaware River, November 18, 1659 - November 3, 1662'" in New Netherland and Beyond Delaware River Settlements 1637-1682 at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/amsteld1.html (accessed 4 November 2008). 41 names.
 * Swedish Colonial Society - history, churches, and settlers.
 * Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of Delaware," in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Spring/Summer 1998): 197-231, and continued in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Fall/Winter 1998): 314-60. Biographical sketches of over 175 mostly Swedish and Finnish residents on the west side of the Delaware River from what is now New Castle County, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also includes a few families in Zwaanendael (now Lewes, Sussex, Delaware), and east of the Delaware River in present day New Jersey.