Person:Mouns Unknown (1)

Name	Måns Andersson
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Est 1612	Sweden
Marriage	Est 1635	Swedento Unknown _____
Marriage	Abt 1646	New Sweden Colonyto Unknown Rettel
Death`^?`	Aft 4 Dec 1679	Mountsfield Plantation, Baltimore, Cecil County, Maryland

About Måns Anderson

Chronology:

Mar 1638, New Sweden is established on the South River (now the Delaware) by Peter Minuit (a Walloon) and other New Netherland seceders along with two shiploads of Swedish and Finnish men , who build Ft. Christina (now Wilmington, DE), named after th e 12-year-old Swedish queen.

Oct 1639, Måns, and probably his wife and at least one small child, Brita, are among the first families to leave Göteborg, Sweden, aboard the Kalmar Nyckel for New Sweden where he has been hir ed as a laborer.

Apr 1640, after a six-month sea voyage, Måns and his family arrive in New Sweden.

1642, probable first settlements in what is now Pennsylvania, including Upland (now Chester, PA).

1644, Printz establishes a tobacco plantation at Upland, and Måns is assigned there to learn tobacco farming. However, the experiment is a disaster, and in 1645 the plantation reverts to corn.

1646, Måns and his new wife establish their own farm, called Silleryd {Manor} in what is now Delaware Co., PA. He also become s a freeman, but falls into debt because he is prohibited from trading with the Indians and is forced to trade with either the N ew Sweden Company's store or the governor's private warehouse.

1651, the Dutch establish Ft. Casimir (now New Castle, DE) onl y a few miles south of Ft. Christina on the same side of the South River

27 Jul 1653, Måns and 21 other freemen submit a complaint to Printz, protesting his dictatorial rule and asking for more freedom . Printz calls the action a mutiny, has one of his soldiers shot, turns the colony over to his son-in-law Johan Papegoja, and returns to Sweden. Måns and other freemen flee the colony to join the Dutch at Ft. Casimir, and he builds a cabin just north of the fort.

May 1654, a new royal governor, Johan Rising, arrives in New Sweden, quickly captures Ft. Casimir without firing a shot and renames it Ft. Trinity, thus restoring the entire South River to Swedish control. He initiates reforms.and establishes the settlement of Swanwyck where Måns resides.

10 Jul 1654, Rising offers to buy Måns' former buildings and fields at Silleryd, and Måns accepts.

Sep 1655, New Netherland Governor Peter Stuyvesant invades New Sweden, which surrenders without a fight. Måns makes his mark on an oath of allegiance to Stuyvesant. [Ft. Christina is renamed Ft. Altena.]

1656, Måns is appointed inspector of tobacco. Stuyvesant grants the Swedes and Finns self-government in the area north of the Christina River.

1657, New Amstel (now New Castle) is established by the City of Amsterdam, and Måns' children attend the Dutch school there.

1661, Måns, his wife, and six children immigrate to Maryland because of his indebtedness to an English trader and new diseases introduced to New Amstel by Dutch newcomers.

25 Apr 1662, a 150-acre plantation is surveyed for Måns near the mouth of the Elk River on Sassafras Neck in Kent Co. [Craig erroniously shows Baltimore Co.], now Cecil Co., and is called Mountsfield. While waiting for his home to be built and the land prepared, Måns returns to the Altena area on the Brandywine River where he is in partnership with Walraven Jansen de Vos, a former Dutch soldier married to a Swedish woman.

1665, Måns sells his partnership to his former Swanwyck neighbor , Dr. Timen Stiddem, and moves to Mountsfield where he remains for the rest of his life.

Death: According to the diary of a Dutch traveler, the traveler spent the night of 4 Dec 1679 with Måns, his wife, and some of his children.

References

Craig, Dr. Peter Stebbins. Måns Andersson and his Mounts Descendants. (Swedish Colonial News, Vol. 2, No. 6).

When the Kalmar Nyckel left Göteborg on its second voyage to New Sweden in October 1639, it had among its passengers Måns Andersson, probably accompanied by his wife and at least one small child, Brita. He had been hired as a laborer at a wage of 50 Dutch guilders per year. [Source:
http://www.colonialswedes.org/forefathers/Andersson.html]