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The Swedes and Finns in New Jersey ...

Title
The Swedes and Finns in New Jersey ... / written and illustrated by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, State of New Jersey; with an introd. by Amandus Johnson ... sponsored by the New Jersey commission to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the settlement by the Swedes and Finns on the Delaware, D. Stewart Craven, chairman.
Author
Federal Writers' Project.
Publication
[Bayonne, N.J.] : [Jersey Print. Co.], 1938.

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Description
6 preliminary leaves, 165 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
"This book tells for the first time the story of the migration of Swedes and Finns in the seventeenth century from Pennsylvania and Delaware to the creek lands of southern New Jersey. It describes fully their efforts to preserve their native ways of life and emphasizes the groth of the important Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck."
Series Statement
American guide series
Uniform Title
American guide series.
Subject
  • 1600-1775
  • Swedish Americans > New Jersey
  • Finnish Americans > New Jersey
  • Finnish Americans
  • Swedish Americans
  • Swedes > New Jersey
  • Finns > New Jersey
  • New Sweden > History
  • New Jersey > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • Delaware > History
  • Delaware
  • New Jersey
  • United States, New Jersey > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Maps on lining-papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [158]-160.
LCCN
38025885
OCLC
  • ocm01542555
  • 1542555
  • SCSB-147201
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library