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Novae Sveciae Tabula, from Kort abeskrifning om beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uit America...[ A short description of the province of New Sweden], by Thomas Campanius Holm, 1702.
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Credit: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Published twenty years after King Charles II granted William Penn ownership of his New World colony, this 1702 map shows some of the old Swedish settlements and the location of Penn’s new capital city of Philadelphia.

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