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Reed Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Coxsackie in Greene County, New York.The district contains 30 contributing buildings. They are a collection of mid-19th century, two and three story commercial buildings.
Sweden is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. It is part of the Rochester metropolitan area, New York. This town is located on the west border of the county. The Erie Canal passes through the northern part of the town and Route 19 is a major north–south highway. The population was 13,244 at the 2020 census. [3]
On April 12, 1899, the Swedish-Norwegian consulate relocated to 17 State Street in the Financial District. [17] In January 1906, it was reported that the Swedish consulate had moved to Room 1006 at 17 State Street. [18] The consulate remained at the same address until 1919. [19] In 1920, it was located at 119 Nassau Street in the Financial ...
Governor Francis Lovelace, of the Province of New York, issued an order for the arrest of Jacobson and his fellow conspirators on August 2, 1669. During a dinner on September 4, Justice Peter Cock was present when a group of Swedes were persuaded by Jacobson to swear an oath of allegiance to the King of Sweden.
Lake View Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the town of Sweden, near Brockport in Monroe County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1891. It includes a Romanesque Revival style chapel / receiving vault, a small pond, a cast iron tiered fountain, and a distinctive serpentine road system. [2] The cemetery has more than 5,000 burials.
Matthias Sention Sr. (also spelled Sangins, Sension, Senchion, and later as St. John) (August 9, 1601 – October 19, 1669) was a founding settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, of Windsor, Connecticut, of Wethersfield, Connecticut and of Norwalk, Connecticut. [1] Matthias was the son of Christopher St. John (c. 1581 – June 19, 1629) and Joane ...
Rev. Thomas James, Jr. (1620-1698) was a Puritan minister in East Hampton, Long Island, during the late 17th century. [2] In 1648, the first inhabitants of East Hampton arrived, having mostly migrated from Maidstone, a town in Kent, England.
In 1900 there were around 28.000 Swedes in New York with about 15.000 in Brooklyn and about 11.000 in Manhattan. In 1930 there were 37,200 Swedish immigrants and 24,500 non immigrants of Swedish descent in the city. As the economy improved in Sweden fewer immigrants arrived and by 1980 there were about 3000 Swedish immigrants in New York.