Peter Peterson Yocum / Jochim
1653 - 1701 (48 years)-
Name Peter Peterson Yocum / Jochim [1, 2] Birth May 1653 New Sweden 
[3, 4] Gender Male Occupation Indian trader and Indian interpreter for William Penn [1] Death 12 Sep 1701 Aronameck, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania [2, 4] Burial Gloria Dei Episcopal Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania [4] Person ID I5699 Hedges Last Modified 3 Jun 2025
Father Peter Jochimsson, b. 1623, Orebron, Sweden d. 27 Jul 1654, New Amsterdam, New York (Age 31 years) Mother Ella Stille, b. 1634, Roslagen, Lanna, Uppland, Sweden d. 1718, Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey (Age 84 years) Family ID F2485 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Judith Jonasdotter, b. 1658, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania d. 4 Feb 1727, Amityville, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 69 years) Marriage 1676 [2] Family ID F2490 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jun 2025
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Notes - The Peterson or Yocum Family
#35 Peter Petersson Yocum (Aronameck, £100): Peter was born in New Sweden c.1652. His father, a soldier named Peter Jochimsson from Schlesvig in Holstein, had arrived in New Sweden on the Swan in 1643 and became a freeman on 1 November 1652. He was on e of the 22 freemen signing the 1653 complaint against Governor Printz. In the summer of 1654, Governor Rising chose him to go to New Amerstdam on a diplomatic and spying mission. Peter Jochimsson died there. Thereafter, his widow, known in 1693 as Ella Steelman (#54), married Hans Mansson who raised Peter Petersson as his own son. Peter Petersson, who adopted the surname Jochim *Yocum) c. 1675, married Judith, daughter of Jonas Nilsson (#22), and had seven children by May 1693: Peter (born 1577), Mans (1678), Catharine *1681), Charles *1682), Sven *1685), Julia *1687) and Jonas *1689). Peter Petersson Yocum, who had been prominent as an Indian trader and as an Indian interpreter for William Penn, died in 1702. His widow thereafter moved with her younger sons to Manatawny (Berks County), where she died in 1727. *46) Their descendants used the surname of Yocum or Yocom.
From: The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. by Peter Stebbins Craig.
[1] - Peter Petersson Yocum, born 1652, who married Judith Jonasdotter, daughter of Jonas Nilsson of Kingsessing, in 1676, and had ten children, seven of them sons, before his death at Aronameck in 1702.
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- The Peterson or Yocum Family
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Sources - [S116] Peter Stebbins Craig, The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware, page 43, Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S131] Peter Stebbins Craig, Hans Mansson and His Steelman Family, (Swedish Colonial News, v.1, no.10, 1994.), page 2, https://colonialswedes.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SCSJournal_1994-Fall.pdf.
- [S120] Peter Stebbins Craig, Olof Persson Stille and his Family, https://web.archive.org/web/20091115095000/http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Stille.html.
- [S6] Find a Grave.
- [S116] Peter Stebbins Craig, The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware, page 43, Library of Linda Hedges.