Måns Svensson Lom

Children include Margaret

Måns Svensson Lom was a tailor who had also served as a lieutenant. Svensson means son of Sven. Lom was an added name. The clerk of the 1641 roll wrote it in above his name, as Loom. In Swedish a lom is a water bird, the loon or diver. There is also a place called Lomma in the south of Sweden.

In 1641 he sailed for New Sweden, the Swedish colony on the Delaware River, on its fourth expedition. His entry on the roll reads: "Måns Svensson (Loom), a tailor, who has also been a lieutenant. He intends to begin agriculture in the colony. He received 5 R.D. on departing but otherwise no salary or monthly wage. Goes with his wife, two almost grown up daughters and a little son." R.D. means riksdaler, the Swedish silver dollar. He took no wages from the company.

Others on the same voyage were Olof Stille, a mill maker, with a wife and two children aged seven and one and a half, and Olof's brother Axel Stille, one of eight men going out as soldiers. Number 22 on the roll was Per Kock, an imprisoned soldier sent for punishment, who later married Måns's eldest daughter.

Måns and the Stille brothers settled together at Techoherassi, between Crum Creek and Olle Stille's Creek, later called Ridley Creek.

He was dead by about 1654. In that year Lars Andersson Collinus came from Sweden as a minister's scribe and married his widow. Collinus "took meticulous care of her nine children." Seven were daughters. The eldest, Margaret, married Peter Larsson Cock, who became presiding justice of the court at Upland. Anna married Gustaf Danielsson. Maria was the youngest daughter. The sons included Peter Månsson and Sven Månsson Lom. By 1671 all had left their stepfather's house except Peter, Sven and Maria. Collinus died in 1689.

Children

Margaret Lom b. 1627

Sources

Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of the Delaware," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 40:3 (1998), p. 218, archive.org 1671-Census-Of-The-Delaware-By-Peter-Stebbins-Craig, leaf 21

Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of the Delaware," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 40:3 (1998), p. 211, archive.org 1671-Census-Of-The-Delaware-By-Peter-Stebbins-Craig, leaf 14

Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware (1911), vol. 1, p. 152, archive.org swedishsettlem01john, leaf n237

Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware (1911), vol. 1, p. 152, archive.org swedishsettlem01john; Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of the Delaware," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 40:3 (1998), pp. 211, 218, archive.org 1671-Census-Of-The-Delaware-By-Peter-Stebbins-Craig; Peter Stebbins Craig, "Måns Svensson Lom, Forgotten Forefather, and His Seven Daughters," Swedish Colonial News 1:12 (1995), pp. 2-3; Craig, The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware (1993), pp. 28-29

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