The Swedish South Company, also known as the Company of New-Sweden (

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, ', '), was a trading company from Sweden founded in 1626, that supported the trade between Sweden and its colony

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. The colony was envisioned by its founding father

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; it was to become the first Swedish transoceanic trading project.Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan, Usselinxartikel
(läst 21 januari 2011)Svensk Tobakshistoria
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(läst 21 januari 2011)Franklin J. Jameson (1887). Willem Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies. Johns Hopkins University, New York. In 1649 it lost its monopoly on tobacco granted by the king of Sweden in 1641. In 1655 New Sweden was annexed by

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, this brought an end to the activities of the ''Swedish South Company'', it was dissolved in 1680.

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Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware
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