The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . J/-J|l>v. ^. ? r\-- &^^r- OLD swedes church, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. est churches of the reformed faith in the land, is the venerable Swedes Church, inthe city of Wilmington, Delaware. The setllement of the Swedes was undertaken,as we learn from the royal ])r(>clamation authorizing (he fn-mation o( a trading col-ony on the shores of the Delaware in the New World, primarily willi a view ofplanting tlie Christian religion among the heathen; and in tliis spirit the settlersbrought with them their spiritual guide, .and one of their liis
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . J/-J|l>v. ^. ? r\-- &^^r- OLD swedes church, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. est churches of the reformed faith in the land, is the venerable Swedes Church, inthe city of Wilmington, Delaware. The setllement of the Swedes was undertaken,as we learn from the royal ])r(>clamation authorizing (he fn-mation o( a trading col-ony on the shores of the Delaware in the New World, primarily willi a view ofplanting tlie Christian religion among the heathen; and in tliis spirit the settlersbrought with them their spiritual guide, .and one of their liist cares was to providewithin the walls of their rude fortiliiation n, house for the worship of (iod. Tor-killus, the Swedish priest, ofliciatcd among his countrymen until his death, in Kji,?.The needs of the settlers soon nnpiired the erection of a ehurcli at Crane Hook, ontlie south side of the month of llu^ Christiana river. This ehureh was not built until1C07, t^velve years after the short-lived conquest of New .Swcdiii by the Dutch, andthree years after the v
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