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bucolic_frolic

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2. I mean I've heard of Swedesboro NJ but "Swedes and Finns, the first European colonists"?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 01:37 PM

6 hrs ago

Must be true: Why did the Swedes settle in Pennsylvania?

Led by Peter Minuit, the Swedes came to establish a commercial colony for the New Sweden Company. The people on board, like the investors and officials back in Europe, envisioned great riches from the furs that they hoped the Lenape would provide.

Even back then it all started with an investment company. Peoples do things for financial and economic reasons.

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