MDDM Ch. 62 Swedish Jacobites

[jbor]

Stig (unattributed): "Very well.-- I am here on behalf of certain Principals
in Sweden, who believe that the Penns, being secretly creatures of Rome,
took illegally the original Svånnsen land 'pon which Philadelphia would
later come to sit,-- and thus that the whole Metropolis has never ceas'd to
belong, rightfully, to Sweden."

"What,-- Swedish Jacobites!" exclaims Dixon, "sort of thing...why, Stig...?"

Rereading this section I think that Dixon is comparing the "certain
Principals in Sweden" and their claims on Philadelphia, as explained by
Stig, to the supporters of James II and his descendants (i.e. the Jacobites)
who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in the first half
of the 18th C.

I'm still pretty certain that Stig is a Laplander (Sami), however.

More info. on Penn and the uncertainty surrounding his acquisition of the
land around Philadelphia:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnind.html

I think Stig's accusation that the Penns are "secretly creatures of Rome"
implies that he believes them to be imperialists, rather than that Quakers
are closet Catholics.

Stig (unattributed): " ... indeed, for Penn, Swedes were but another tribe
of Indian, residing within his American Grant, whose priority there he found
no less irksome ... " (611)

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on 9/7/02 5:30 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 611.12 "the original Svånnsen land 'pon which Philadelphia would later come
> to sit ... "