Anders Andersson

     Anders Andersson was born circa 1585, in Finland.¹ He was usually called the Finn.¹ He married Christina Goolbrant circa 1615 in Strangnas, Sweden.¹ Anders Andersson died after 1673 in Upland, New Sweden.¹ "When the Swedes arrived in the Delaware Valley in 1638, they referred to the whole area of eastern Pennsylvania, southeaster New York State, New Jersey, western Long Island and Northern Delaware, as "Lenapehocking" or "The Land of the Lenape." The Lenape were willing to sell some of their land to the Swedish settlers and Supplied them with maize, fish, venison, and some furs." (Source: Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians' History, Culture and Food, Nancy Baulis, 1-4-2006 (Before Penn: Swedish Colonists in the Land of the Lenape, Zoriana E. Siokalo, 1988, p. 17))

1643, February 13, in the afternoon, the ships Fama and Swan arrived at Fort Christina. ". . . was Anders Andersson the Finn, his wife and small children. Anders the Finn, formerly a soldier at Fort Älvsborg in Sweden, had been banished to New Sweden as punishment for some undisclosed crime. By 1644, Anders the Finn had become a freeman, having served out his sentence." (Source: Anders Andersson the Finn and his Descendants, by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, Swedish Colonial News, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2005).).¹