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and some immigration and expansion continued. The first settlement at Wicaco began with a Swedish log blockhouse located on Society Hill in Philadelphia...

fast land of the Neck[clarification needed], lying between Passyunk and Wicaco. It was incorporated into Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States...

of the Neck, lying between Passyunk and Wicaco. Due to the populations of the Swedish settlements of Wicaco and Moyamensing, Southwark grew earlier than...

Gunnarsson Rambo (10 June 1611, Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden – 21 January 1698, Wicaco, Pennsylvania, United States) was a Swedish immigrant to New Sweden (now...

1683, Svensson and his brothers agreed to provide the northern part of Wicaco (modern Southwark in Philadelphia) to William Penn, who was planning the...

Stebbins Craig, "The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Chapter 3: The Wicaco Congregation," Swedish American Genealogist, vol 10, no 1, March 1990; pp...

born around 1709 in Stockholm, Sweden, died November 3, 1741, probably in Wicaco, Province of Pennsylvania, was pastor of Gloria Dei Church 1737-1741. Johan...

spokesman for the settlers, and as commanding officer of the militia at Wicaco. He purchased land and was one of the first European settlers in what is...

Sweden, Sven Gunnarsson, moved into the region and settled at a place called Wicaco, a former native settlement located on today's Society Hill and Queens Village...

Macalester for his Scotland home. Washington Square Named for George Washington. Wicaco From the Lenni Lenapi name for the area meaning "Pleasant Place". Wissahickon...

September 1865 and was sold at public auction on 25 October 1865. Documented Wicaco (after the Philadelphia community of the same name on 1 December 1865, the...

Sweden were the first to settle the area in 1646. An existing blockhouse at Wicaco (now South Philadelphia), had been renovated for worship in 1677 and was...

Church of Sweden. Rudman supervised the construction of Gloria Dei Church at Wicaco, Pennsylvania beginning in 1698. The church was dedicated in 1700. Rudman...

family north. They settled on 1,125 acres (4.55 km2) at a place called Wicaco, a former Indian settlement, which would become what is modern-day Queen...

Andrew Sandel, 1708-1719 Samuel Hesselius, 1720-1723 Assistant Pastors of Wicaco, 1723-1734 Gabriel Falck, 1735-1745 Henry M. Muhlenberg, 1748-1752 John...

February 1688/89 when he was listed as a member of the Swede's Church in Wicaco (later in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). On January 26, 1691/92, he witnessed...

Blakiston, Atlee, Coates, and other descendants of Matthias Holstein of Wicaco, Philadelphia are included ; thirty-five family pictures and facsimile of...

as a spokesman for the settlers and commanding officer of the militia at Wicaco. Steelman's mother, Ella Stille (1634-1718), was a widow and the oldest...

November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei Church, the Swedish Lutheran Church in Wicaco, today South Philadelphia. His first pastoral assignment was with the settlers...

Done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran Church at Wicaco, Philadelphia (1903) The Music of the Ephrata Cloister: Also Conrad Beissel's...