New Sweden,1638-56 was a penal colony on the Delaware River. Escaping prisoners and servants often fled just west ,to Cecil Co, n e most Maryland. Even later,when the Quakers started pushing the pioneering Swedes from their lands near Philadelphia,Cecil Co was oft times where they relocated. In the 1700-10 era,indian trader Capt Johan Hance Steelman lived on the Elk River,in Cecil Co, where his grandfather,Olaf Stille's brother had fled. Olaf Stille lived in Moyamensing, or just west of downtown Philadelphia near my Mans Lom,and Lom's daughter's husband, John Wheeler. 1658 John Wheeler moved to the Sassafras River in s Cecil Co, with wife,and sons,Samuel,John,and Anders,and d 1677 on the Elk River,but leaving "Wheeler's Point" on the Sassafras to son,John Wheeler. 1700-10 era ,the Cecil Co Swedes contributed to the building of the Holy Trinity-Old Swedes Lutherian,in Wilmington,Del,and the church in Cecil Co that became St Mary Ann's Episcopal started with a Swedish Lutherian minister,Rev Auren m a Justice. "The 1693 Census of Swedes on the Delawares" Dr Peter Stebbins Craig,pages 46 and 47 has more. Stille,Lom,Steelman,Justice are my own lines. I worry about the transcribing that ended in a name Otho Othoson. Marylanders did use the Greek Otho, but not the Swedes,who added son to 1st names. Maybe it was Okay Okerson ? Guessing.