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New Sweden

Swedes and Finns farming both banks of the lower Delaware from Fort Christina (Wilmington).

Conquered by Dutch New Netherland; Fort Christina surrendered 15 September 1655.

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Moments from the Chronicle

• 1638 New Sweden founded Swedes build Fort Christina on the Delaware; the Wenro of New York disperse the same year.
• 1655 Dutch conquer New Sweden Stuyvesant takes Fort Christina; the Delaware passes to New Netherland.

Further reading

• The Swedish settlements on the Delaware Amandus Johnson · 2020

  Johnson's classic scholarly history of the Swedish colony on the Delaware, 1638-1664, and its relations with the Indians, Dutch, and English.

• American Colonies Alan Taylor · 2001

  New Sweden within the contest for the mid-Atlantic and its Dutch conquest (broad context).

• The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664 Amandus Johnson · 1914

  The classic dedicated monograph on New Sweden — covers the colony from Fort Christina's founding through the Dutch conquest of 1655. More polity-specific than either current entry.

Sources

• New Sweden — Wikipedia