Ping to the Swedish Ping List. (BTW, I'm breaking my Lenten "posting fast" to come out of lurk for this one.)
Andersson is believed to have left Gothenburg, in southwestern Sweden, in October 1639, arriving in the colony of New Sweden in Delaware a few months later. . . .
My great-great-whatever-grandfather was on the same boat! I'm series.
Peter Gunnarsson Rambo also was on the second voyage of the Kalmar Nyckel and was one of the founders of the New Sweden colony along the Delaware River. My mother's mother was Grace Rambo Clark. (My father's parents, the Henricksons, were more recent arrivals from Sweden, coming about a hundred years ago.)
My wife and daughter and I are taking a vacation to Philadelphia around the Fourth of July, and while there, we want to see the Swedish Colonial sites. I understand there's even a full size replica of the Kalmar Nyckel:
Bush ancestor Måns Andersson