As they are a people proper and strong of body. so have they fine children. and almost every house full. rare to find one of them without three or four boys. and as many girls. some six. seven. and eight sons. And I must do them that rightI see few young men more sober and Industrious. SwedishAmerican history is a long story which actively began with the coming of the first band of immigrants from Sweden to America in 1638. They are parts of the bone and sinew of two of the original States--Delaware and Pennsylvania. There is not a single one of the 48 Commonwealths today which does not count the children of Sweden among its welcome citizens.
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