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The Settlements on the Delaware 401
period opened to the Swedish Lutheran Mission on the
Delaware, extending down to the American Revolution.
The mission had a
faithful and energetic
friend and spokesman
in Dr. Jesper Svedberg
for a long period of
nearly forty years.
When he was appoint-
ed bishop of Skara by
Charles XII, in 1702,
he was given the gen-
eral supervision of the
Swedish mission in
America. This posi-
tion he held to the
time of his death in
1735. Warm friends
and supporters of the
mission were also the
successive archbish-
ops, the Uppsala chapter, and the kings. During the
period of seventy-nine years (1696-1775) no less than
thirty pastors were sent over to the mission.*
The Language Question. For over a hundred years
the Swedish language was used almost exclusively in
the churches of the Swedish mission. But gradually
Bishop Jesper Svedberg.
* One of the most noted of these pastors was Provost Israel Acrelius, who
wrote a detailed history of New Sweden to the year 1756, when, on account
of ill health he returned to Sweden. The work was dedicated to Queen Louisa
Ulrica by the author and published by him in Stockholm in 1759. It has been
translated into English by Dr. William M. Reynolds and published by The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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