Articles and Books about New Sweden

This is a collection of articles presenting New Sweden genealogy, history, immigration, and traditions to everyone with Finnish ancestry. Other article categories are Finland, Finnish-Americans, Finnish-Canadians, Finnish-Australians, Finns in Karelia, Norway, Book Reviews, Finnish Migration, and high school student reports.

More articles as well as categories are needed. Visitors are encouraged to submit both published and unpublished articles to the site. New categories will be added if necessary.

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Peter Stebbins Craig

• 300 Years Ago: The Swedes of the Delaware Valley, 1693. Part One (doc) (Delaware County Historical Society)
• 300 Years Ago: The Swedes of the Delaware Valley, 1693. Part Two (doc) (Delaware County Historical Society)
• Chronology of Colonial Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1713 (pdf) (Swedish Colonial News)
• Johan Grelsson and His Archer, Urian and Culin Descendants (pdf) (Swedish Colonial News)
• Sinnick Broer the Finn and His Sinex, Sinnickson & Falkenberg Descendants (pdf) (Swedish Colonial News)

A. R. Dunlap & E. J. Moyne

• The Finnish Language on the Delaware

Frank E. Hook

• The Finns in American Colonial History

Reino Kero

• Finns in the New Sweden Colony

Auvo Kostiainen

• Delaware as a Symbol of Finnish Immigration

E. A. Louhi

• The Delaware Finns

John Manni

• First U.S. Flag Made by American Finn

K-G Olin

• Delaware 350 - A Finnish View (K-G Olin)
• Our First Travelers to America

Corinne L. Olli

• References to the Finns in Delaware in Seventeenth Century Records

John Saari

• The Finns on the Delaware and the Meaning of the Tercentenary to Finnish Americans
• The Meaning of the Delaware Tercentenary Celebration to Finnish Americans

G. Sjöblom

• The 75-Year-Old Gloria Dei Church and Its Predecessor 1891-1966 (Brooklyn, NY)

Elisabeth Thorsell

• Was the First President of the United States a Swede? (Swedish American Genealogist)

Eugene Van Cleef

• Baltic Tercentenary Celebration in the United States

Väinö Voionmaa

• The First Finnish Pioneers in America

C. Ward

• Of the Forest-Destroying Finns

John H. Wuorinen

• The Finns in the Delaware River Valley

Unknown Writers

• A Brief Sketch of Our Church In Its Early Days (Lanesville, MA)
• The Finnish Aspect of the Delaware Tercentenary
• The Finnish Pioneers of America
• First Finnish Settlement in America 1638
• First Permanent Settlement in Delaware River Valley
• New Sweden or the Swedes on the Delaware
• Observance of the Three Hundreth Anniversary of the First Permanent Settlement in the Delaware River Valley 1938
• Our History. The History of the Bethel Lutheran Church (Cherry, MN)

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