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DOCUMENT 8.
LETTER FROM PETER SCHÖNSTRÖM " TO
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG . *
My honoured friend and brother,
I thank you for your kind letter, and also for
the genealogical register of our ancestors. You may obtain
one still more perfect, if you go into the Privy Archives
(Cammar-archivo ), and find out the homestead upon which our
ancestors’lived ; for in the old registers of the transfer of landed
property the proprietors are always mentioned. It would be
an advantage to our family if you could establish from the
old register, that their homestead was exempt from taxes; for
at that time owners of untaxed property were considered
as noblemen, and at that time not every one, as is the case
now, but only certain families or houses, could become the
owners of such property. For this reason Engelbrecht Engel
brechtson is called a nobleman in our histories, viz. because
he was an owner of untaxed property ; and in Messenius also
Måns Nilson of Asboda, and Anders Person in Rankhyttan,
who were beheaded by order of King Gustavus I, are called
Nobiles Montani, i. e. mountain nobles. The Silfwerströmst are
said to have had the same origin with us on the fathers’ side.
* This Document is contained in Vol. XIV of the Bergius46 Collection
of letters in the Library of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm , on
page 271, &c.
† This seems to be a mistake. According to Anrep,48 Vol. III, p. 759,
the Silfverströms trace their origin to a certain Ludvig or Lydert Otto,
who had emigrated from Germany, and who in 1643 was a councillor in
Fahlun. As Daniel Isaakson, Swedenborg’s paternal grandfather, married
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