Creek" (Christina Kÿl) Raccoon Creek: "Narraticon" (Lenape) meaning Raccoon Salem River: Varkens Kill (Hogg Creek) Mullica River, named for an early Finnish settler, Eric Pålsson Mullica See also C. A. Nothnagle Log House Swedish emigration to North America European colonization of the Americas Possessions of Sweden Swedish American Upland Court Finnish American American Swedish Historical Museum Rambo apple Kalmar Nyckel Laurentius Carels, Swedish American Lutheran pastor Olof Persson Stille, first chief justice of the Upland Court Wedge (border) New Sweden Farmstead Museum Old Swedes' Church Lower Swedish Cabin Flag of Philadelphia References Notes Bibliography Barton, H. Arnold (1994). A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840–1940. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. (1938) Swedes in America, 1638–1938. The Swedish American Tercentenary Association. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press Jennings, Francis, (1984) The Ambiguous Iroquois. New York: Norton Johnson, Amandus (1927) The Swedes on the Delaware. Philadelphia: International Printing Company Munroe, John A. (1977) Colonial Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Heritage Press Shorto, Russell (2004) The Island at the Center of the World. New York: Doubleday Weslager, C. A. (1990) A Man and his Ship, Peter Minuet and the Kalmar Nyckel. Wilmington, Delaware: Kalmar Nyckel Foundation Weslager, C. A. (1988) New Sweden on the Delaware 1638–1655. Wilmington, Delaware: Middle Atlantic Press Weslager, C. A. (1987) The Swedes and Dutch at New Castle. Wilmington, Delaware: Middle Atlantic Press Further reading Jameson, J. Franklin (1887) Willem Usselinx: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Mickley, Joseph J. (1881) Some Account of William Usselinx and Peter Minuit: Two individuals who were instrumental in establishing the first permanent colony in Delaware. The Historical Society of Delaware. Myers, Albert Cook, ed. (1912) Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630–1707. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Ward, Christopher (1930) Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, 1609–1664. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press External links The Finns in American Colonial History The American Swedish Historical Museum A Brief History of New Sweden in America, at The Swedish Colonial Society The New Sweden Centre – museum, tours and reenactors New Sweden at the FamilySearch Research Wiki Johnson's detailed map of New Sweden 350th Anniversary of the Landing of the Swedes and Finns in Delaware Colonization history of the United States Colonial settlements in North America Former Swedish colonies 17th century in Sweden Economic history of Sweden