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Israel Acrelius was born in Osteraker, Stockholm County, Sweden, the son of the local pastor Johan Acrelius and Sara Gahm.
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Beskrifning om de swenska forsamlingars forna och narwarande tilstand uti detsakallade Nya Swerige, sedan Nya Nederland, men nu for tiden Pensylvanien, samt nastliggande orter wid alfwen De la Ware, Wast-Yersey och New-Castle county uti Norra America. This book, "Beskrifning om de swenska forsamlingars forna och narwarande tilstand uti detsakallade Nya Swerige", by Israel Acrelius, is a replication of a book originally published before 1759. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Israel Acrelius was born in Osteraker, Stockholm County, Sweden, the son of the local pastor Johan Acrelius and Sara Gahm.
Before Acrelius was quite thirteen years old he began his studies at the University of Upsala, where he remained till his ordination in 1743.
After serving for a while as a domestic chaplain Acrelius was appointed in 1745 to the pastorate of Riala, Kulla, and Norra Ljuster.
In the spring of 1749 Acrelius was appointed minister of the parish of Racoon and Pennsneck in the province of New Jersey. Before he was ready to leave for his post, news of the death of the Rev. Peter Tranberg, pastor at Christina (now Wilmington, Delaware), reached the authorities, and at his own request Acrelius was named to the new vacancy. He sailed from Stockholm on July 20 and reached Christina early in November. He found that the Rev. Peter Tranberg had been revered as a saint a fact that did not make the path easy for his successor. The congregation, too ignorant and illiterate to manage its own affairs, had entrusted its business to a Quaker, who possessed a decided talent for embezzling both money and real estate. Church discipline, during the absence of a regular pastor, had become indecently lax, and the "language difficulty, " already a problem to the Lutheran Church in America, was acute. Acrelius set to work immediately. He put his own church in order. As provost of the Swedish clergymen he exercised a quickening influence over all the Swedish congregations. That he might minister to others besides his own countrymen he learned English, and one of his sermons, published by Benjamin Franklin in 1756, shows him the master of a chaste English style.
He gave active help and sympathy to the German Lutherans of Pennsylvania and was on a friendly footing with their leader, the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.
His leisure he spent in making botanical, zoological, and geological collections for the Swedish chamberlain, Charles de Geer, and in gathering materials for his own excellent History of New Sweden (1759).
Overwork, the miasmal climate, and perhaps the pioneer cuisine told severely on his health. After four years he requested to be relieved, but this action was delayed for several more years, and he did not leave until his successor was actually on the ground. His departure caused widespread sorrow. He preached farewell sermons in six different towns, and many followed him from one to another, "sorrowing most of all that they should nevermore behold his face. " He sailed for home November 9, 1756, and after a sojourn of several months in England arrived in Stockholm in July 1757.
Next year he was appointed pastor in Fellingsbro in the diocese of Westeras. His annus mirabilis was 1759: he was made a rural dean, and published his history. Three-fifths of his work treats of matters purely ecclesiastical, but the rest is a general history of the region under Swedish, Dutch, and English rule and a description of the land and people.
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In 1759 Acrelius married Katarina Elisabet Strangh, the daughter of his predecessor at Fellingsbro.