Person:Thomas Jacobsson (1)

About Thomas Jacobsson

From "Thomas Jacobsson the Finn and his Thompson Descendants", by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig:

Among the many Finns arriving in former New Sweden on the Mercurius in 1656 was the family of Thomas Jacobsson from Let­stigen, Värmland, which included his wife, three children and a maid.

From "The Crane Hook Congregation":

Thomas Jacobsson, a Finn from Letstigen, Varmland, came to the Delaware on the Mercuriw in 1656 with his wife, a maid-servant and three children. By 1668, he had settled with Olle Palsson at Bread and Cheese Island, the name applied to the area west of the Old Minquas Plantation, bounded by Christina River, White Clay Creek and Red Clay Creek. His name last appeared in public records on 9 Jan. 1678/9 when Charles Hedges, aged five, was indentured to Thomas Jacobsson, wheelwright, who promised the court that his son Oele Thomas "shall larne" the boy "to reede as much as he can teach him." Three sons have been positively identified: One, name unknown, was kidnapped by the Indians as a young lad." Another, Peter Thomasson, probably died without heirs. A third, is Olle Thomasson. Christiern Thomasson of the Wicaco congregation may also have been his son.

[Source: http://www.nc-chap.org/cranehook/pdfs/cranehook1693c.pdf]

Citations

http://www.colonialswedes.org/forefathers/Jacobsson.html