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APPENDICES TO LECTURE VIII.
A. ROUGH LIST OF BOOKS BEARING ON THE
HISTORY OF THE SWEDES IN U.S.A.
i. THE SWEDES IN DELAWARE AND PENNYSLVANIA.
Thomas Campanius Holm(iensis) :
Description of the Pro
vince of New Sweden, translated by Peter S. du Pouceau,
Philadelphia, 1834. [The author was grandson of John Cam
panius, who accompanied Governor Printz to America as his
chaplain in 1642, and translated Luther s Little Catechism into
the language of the Lenni, Lenape or Renappi. The author
was never himself in America, and has introduced some strange
stories.]
Israel Acrelius :
Description of the former and present con
dition of the Swedish Churches in what was called New
Sweden, etc., Stockholm, 1759, translated with notes by W. M.
Reynolds, D.D., for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1876.
The Records of the Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wil
mington, Delaware, from 1697 to 1773, translated by Horace
Burr, with an abstract of the English records from 1773 to 1810,
published by Hist. Soc. of Delaware, Wilmington, 1890. [This
contains Pastor Bjork s valuable diary quoted above.]
Benjamin Ferris : A History of the Original Settlements on
the Delaware from its Discovery by Pludson to the Colonisa
tion under Wm. Perm, to which is added an account of the
historical affairs of the Swedish settlers and a history of
Wilmington to the present time, Wilmington, 1846.
Otto Norberg : Svenska Kyrkans Mission vid Delaware i
Nord-Amerika (i f.d. Kolonien Nya Sverige), Akademisk
Afhandling, Stockholm, 1893.
The most recent work is by Professor Amandus Johnson, of
Philadelphia : The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, their
history and relation to the English and Dutch, 1638-1664, with
an account of the "South," the
"
New Sweden" and the
"
American "
Companies and of the efforts of Sweden to regain
the Colony, two volumes, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia
[1910?]. [I have been unable to see this book.]
2. NEW SWEDEN IN MAINE.
The Story of New Sweden, as told at the Quarter-Centennial
Celebration of the founding of the Swedish Colony in the
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