Note 958 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

Beskrifning om de Swenska Församlingars Forna och Närwarande Tilstånd, uti det så kallade Nya Swerige, sedan Nya Nederland, men nu för tiden Pensylvanien, samt nästliggande Orter wid Alfwen De la Ware, Wäst-Yersey och New-Castle County uti Norra America; Utgifwen af Israel Acrelius, För detta Probst öfwer de Swenska Församlingar i America och Kyrkoherde uti Christina, men nu Probst och Kyrkoherde uti Fellingsbro. Stockholm, Tryckt hos Harberg et Hesselberg, 1759. 4to, xx+ 534 pp. The work is dedicated to Queen Louisa Ulrica of Sweden. A translation of portions of the book, by the Rev. Nicholas Collin, D.D., is given in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., second series, vol. i. pp. 401 et seq. A translation of the whole of it, by the Rev. William M. Reynolds, D.D., with numerous additional notes, was published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. xi. (Philadelphia, 1874). The latter is accompanied by a portrait of the author, engraved from a copy in oils by Christian Schuessele (in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) from a picture sent to this country by Acrelius, now the property of Trinity Church, Wilmington, Del.; as well as by a map of New Sweden, engraved from a copy (belonging to the same Historical Society) of the original of Engineer Lindström, still preserved in Sweden. There are copies in the libraries of Harvard College and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and in the Carter-Brown collection. (Cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, i. 133; Brinley Catalogue, ii. 3,030; Muller’s Books on America [1872], no. 1,134; also Catalogue of Paintings, etc., belonging to the Hist. Soc. of Penn., no. 59. Priced recently at £7 7s.) Acrelius died in 1800.