New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

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Map of New Sweden. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The colony of New Sweden extended along the western bank of the Delaware River between what became Philadelphia and New Castle, Delaware. This map of New Sweden is attributed to Swedish engineer Peter Lindestrom in 1654, a year before the colony was conquered by the Dutch.

Apr 15, 2024 · New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony on the Delaware River on the Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Map of A map of New Sweden (1638–1655) from an article by Gregory Keen (1878) showing Cape May and Cape Henlopen, the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River (New Sweden River) north to Trenton, New Jersey, including Philadelphia and Bristol.

Feb 21, 2025 · New Sweden, only Swedish colony in America, established by the New Sweden Company in March 1638 and captured by the Dutch in 1655. The first expedition, including both Swedes and Dutchmen, was commanded by Peter Minuit, who purchased land from the Indians and named the settlement Fort Christina.

Explore the New Sweden Colony between the years 1638 and 1700 with our Timeline Map shown below. It details the progression and collapse of the colony, as well as explaining how the area and its rulers changed over time.

The legacy of New Sweden: Swedish and Finnish sites in America, 1638-1787 / compiled by Richard Hulan. 1787. A map of the state of New Jersey: with part of the adjoining states / compiled under the patronage of the Legislature of said state by Thomas Gordon; engraved by H.S. Tanner, assisted by E.B. Dawson & W. Allen. 1828. Maryland. 1814

Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992. “The First Foundations” (Arrival of the Dutch, the Land and the Natives, the Dutch Settle in New Jersey, the Swedes on the Delaware)

Oct 3, 2024 · The map above shows the relative positions and sizes of two of the American colonial eras forgotten powers, New Netherland and New Sweden in around the year 1650.