Ancestors

Gunnar Rambo

Gunnar Rambo was the eldest son of Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, who had come to New Sweden on the Kalmar Nyckel in 1640, and his wife Brita Mattsdotter. He was born on 6 January 1648/49. The double year is the old way of writing a January date, when the year was still reckoned to begin in March.

He married Anneka Cock, also called Anna, born about 1652. She was a daughter of Peter Larsson Cock and Margaret Lom. Her father had come to the colony on the Charitas in 1641 and served as a magistrate under the Dutch and the English, as presiding justice at Upland and as an interpreter for William Penn. The marriage is usually dated 1670. In 1671, though, Gunnar was still living in his father's house at Passyunk and Anna in hers, so they probably married a year or two later. His brother John married her sister Brigitta.

Gunnar lived for twenty years at Shackamaxon, on the Delaware above Philadelphia, now the neighbourhood of Kensington. He sold his land there in 1697. A stream there took his name. Gunnar's Run now flows under Aramingo Avenue.

Under William Penn's government he sat on the first grand jury, and in 1685 he was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He was on the first tax list of Philadelphia. About 1712 he moved to Upper Merion.

His father made his will on 30 August 1694 and gave "my son Gunner Rambo three hundred acres of land in West New Jersey on Homans Creek." One of the witnesses was Lasse Cock, Anneka's brother. The will was proved on 19 November 1698.

Gunnar died in 1724 and was buried in the churchyard of the Old Swedes' Church. His will, dated 1723/24, is in Philadelphia Will Book D, pages 388 and 389. His sons were Peter, John, Gunnar, Mounce, Gabriel, Andrew, Matthias and Elias. Peter Rambo of Providence, born about 1678, is counted as one of them.

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Cite: Heirology, "Gunnar Rambo (1648-1724)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/gunnar-rambo-1648-1724-516c80.