Thanks, Bo, that is greatly helpful. I see now how the "C" I was reading must be a "T" for torpare. I did read the following in Wikipedia under "Sweden--United States Relations": "Swedish–American relations reach back to the days of the American Revolutionary War. The Kingdom of Sweden was the first country not formally engaged in the conflict (though thousands of Swedish volunteers partook on the side of the patriots) to recognize the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris, in which Sweden was a party. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed subsequently in 1784 between Benjamin Franklin and Swedish representative Gustaf Philip Creutz." Would be interesting to know about those volunteers-- but I guess they were not in the Swedish military.... As always, thank you so much, Nina -----Original Message----- From: Bo Johansson <[email protected]> To: sweden <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jun 7, 2014 5:51 pm Subject: Re: [SWEDEN] how did Olof Ersson die in 1783? [email protected] wrote 2014-06-07 22:54: > > There is a death entry for Corporal Olof Ersson, born 1751, at > Hille C:3 (1779-1823) Bild 153 / sid 13 (AID: v135527.b153.s13, > NAD: SE/HLA/1010072). > Under his birth date there are the numbers 32, 20 dr -- does > this have to do with the military? --- That is his age, 32 years 20 days. > > (It mentions he is a Corporal at Hille AI:4a (1778-1787) Bild 12 / > sid 6 (AID:v135488.b12.s6, NAD: SE/HLA/1010072).) --- I suspect it says "Torparen", not "Corporal", so he was a small-scale tenant farmer > > In the last column of the first reference (death record) it says: > Gift 1779 d. 14 October med ?? dott. Brita Jonsdotter i Tröjde. > ?? en Son. ???. ???? ???, dog ???(hederligt?) för moderland(?) > i ??? ???. --- Married 1779 the 14th October with ??? daughter Brita Jonsdotter i Tröjde. Had(?) one son. Lived ("Lefvat") ???. Died quickly ("hastigt") probably ("förmodl.") of colic Nothing about being in the army... If he had been a soldier one would have expected him to have a soldier name as surname. > > Since he died in 1783, I am guessing he might have been participating > in the US Revolutionary War and the second-to-last word might be > something about the Colonies or Colonial war. --- No, "Colique" (colic) BTW, Sweden was at peace from 1762 (end of Prussian war) to 1788 (start of Gustav III's Russian war). // Bo Johansson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message