(1) At the age of six, Christina was pronounced the Queen of Sweden after her father’s untimely death at the Battle of Lutzen in 1632 during the Thirty Years War. Too young to assume her duties as Queen, a regent was created to run the Swedish government in her stead until she came of age.
(2) Alf Åberg. The People of New Sweden: Our Colony on the Delaware River. (Stockholm, Bokförlaget Natur Och Kultur. 1988) P. 9-17
(3) Minuit was recalled after it was found out that he was giving economic to advantages to the New Amsterdam patroons over his employer the Dutch West India Company.
(4) Alf Åberg. The People of New Sweden: Our Colony on the Delaware River. P. 12-13
(5) Susan E. Kelpp. “Encounter and Experiment.” Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth. Edited by Randall M. Miller and William Pencak. (University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State Press. 2002) P. 50 Also see Algott Mattsson. New Sweden the Dream of an Empire. Translated by Jan Teeland and Jeremy Franks. (Gothenburg, Sweden. Tre Böcker Förlag. 1987) P.36
(6) Alf Åberg. The People of New Sweden: Our Colony on the Delaware River. P. 18
(7) Ibid., P. 19-26
(8) Given the fact that the Swedes had formally negotiated with the Native American tribes and purchased from them the 120 mile tract of land along the Delaware, it was they, not the Dutch, who had rightful possession of the land.
(9) Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden. Translated by Marie Clark Nelson. (Sweden, Bohusläningens Boktryckeri. 1988) P. 62-63
(10) Algott Mattsson. New Sweden the Dream of an Empire. P. 51-55
(11) Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden. P.66-67
(12) “New Sweden: The 350th Anniversary of the Settlement of the Swedes and Finns in Delaware.” (The University of Delaware Library. 1988) P. 8
(13) Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden. P 75-76
(14) Chronology of Colonial Sweden on the Delaware. 8 December 2003.
(15) Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden. P 77
(16) Algott Mattsson. New Sweden the Dream of an Empire. P. 76
(17) Ibid. P. 83-87
(18) Chronology of Colonial Sweden on the Delaware. 8 December 2003.