Historians believe that the first log cabins built in America were in the Swedish colony ofNya Sverige (New [1]Sweden) on the Delaware River in 1638, The majority of its colonists were actually Forest Finns, because Finland was part of Sweden at that time. The Swedish Colony only lasted a couple of decades before it was absorbed by the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam, which was soon absorbed by the English. Most of the descendants of the Swedish-Finnish colony are believed to have stayed in America. They were considered intelligent and industrious; therefore, ideal citizens of the new colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Taken from an article called the Origin of Log Cabins in North America On 05/20/13, bomendal<bomendal@bellsouth.net> wrote: I recall reading (but do not recall the source) that it was actually the Finns, the most numerous settlers in the Swedish colony, who specialized in building log cabins, which were (and perhaps still are) a common type of structure in Finland, which was, In think, under Swedish control during the time fame in question. Even today, I have read, if you want a well build log cabin, hire a Finn to built it. Having said that, I suppose that the Swedes also built log cabins, but who actually built the first one in New Sweden is not clear to me. David Smock =============== ----- Original Message ----- From: <du[2]tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com> To: <[3]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:01 AM Subject: DUTCH-COLONIES Digest, Vol 8, Issue 88 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: New Sweden anniversary (juliasgenes) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > To contact the DUTCH-COLONIES list administrator, send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the DUTCH-COLONIES mailing list, send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DU[4]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DU[5]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://www.examiner.com/topic/sweden 2. mailto:tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 5. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com