Herr Eric Biork and Christina Stalcop, daughter of Peter Stalcop, were married on Oct. 6, 1702 by Andreas Sandel, who had come from Sweden not long before to succeed his friend Andreas Rudman as pastor at Wicaco (Philadelphia). From Sandel's diary: "1702, July the 15th. Came Mag. Biork, with his intended bride, to Mag. Rudman [at Wicaco]. I did come there too. the 16th. Again I walked from Passajung (Passyunk) to Mag. Rudman in order again to pay my respects to Mag. Biorks [sic] [and] Mag. Rudman, and I did then escort his sweetheart to show her the town, as she had not seen it before. Sept. the 20th. Under a heavy rain, I went down to Christina [Old Swedes, Wilmington, DE] to say the banns for Mag. Biork and his sweetheart, Stina Stallkapp, who afterwards were joined in marriage Oct. 6th. I was very ill in the intervening time...so it was with the very greatest ado I was able to marry them." Biork himself wrote to the Swedish Resident in London, a letter preserved in the Swedish Royal Archives, to tell of his marriage: "Especially is my situation much changed in that a good man's child of my congregation, now in her sixteenth year, Kristina Stallcop by name, has, by her modest ways and unusual proficiency in all things, at length bound my heart unto herself, although she, because of her shyness toward me and my office, did for a time politely decline, but all the more pleased me thereby."