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Description of the province of New Sweden. Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America.
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1834
Physical Description: xi, [2], 14-166 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Call number: G834 /H747d /1-SIZE
Accession number: 06196
Notes: Translation of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania, first printed Stockholm, 1702.
An account of the earliest Swedish settlement in America compiled from manuscripts left by the author's grandfather and by Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony, and from oral sources.
Book IV, p. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", and includes glossaries of words and phrases relating to religion, parts of the body, clothing, weather, animals and plants, numbers, and useful conversational phrases in the Delaware language. Also contains "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156.
Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language.
"A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166.
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Languages: Delaware / Susquehannock / Unami
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
