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- Note on Find a Grave:
Pastor Lars C Lock, arrived in America around, September 1647, at the age of 23. He sailed from Göteborg to New Sweden aboard the ship Swan. In the colony, he replaced the veteran minister, Johan Carnpanius, in the Tinicum and Crane Hook Churches, in Upcreek, in Chester County.
He first married Catharina Pederssdotter, but they divorced, because she ran off with another man.
He later married Beta Mansdotter Lom, January 1662. They would have 7 children.
Around 1664, they acquired the old Techoherassi estate, from Olaf Stille. They lived there until their deaths.
He died in Sept 1688, and she followed a few months later in April 1689.
The youngest three children, Peter, 15, Maria, age 13, and Gustad, age 8, went to live with Beta's sister Maria, in Gloucester, NJ.
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- Lars Carlsson Lock adopted his surname from his place of origin, Lockerud, near Mariestad, Skaraborg Ian. He came to New Sweden as a minister on the Swan in 1648, was accused by Printz of inspiring the 1653 "rebellion" against him, but was spared being sent back to Sweden for trial by proving to Rising's satisfaction that he was innocent. After the surrender, Lock found himself the only minister left to serve the Swedes on the Delaware. He married himself twice - much to the horror of Armegot Printz. His first wife was named Catharine. She eloped on 9 Sept. 1661 with Jacob Jongh from Gothenburg. Within a month, Lock asked permission to remarry, this time to a girl 17 or 18 years old. His marriage to Beata Lom, daughter of Mans Svensson Lom and reputedly the first Swedish girl born in New Sweden, took place in January 1662. Notwithstanding Lock's involvement in the Long Finn Rebellion in 1669, Governor Andreos granted Lock a riverfront tract northeast of Upland Creek (used for glebe land), later supplemented by a patent for Olof Still's former plantation on Ridley Creek. Lock died in September 1688. His wife Beata died in the spring of 1689. They were survived by five sons - Anders (#68), Mans (#69), John, Peter and Gustaf - and at least three daughters, Catharine (see #26), Maria and a third not yet identified. In 1693 the younger children were living in the household of their uncle John Mattson (#62).
The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. by Peter Stebbins Craig. [2]
- Beata Lom, born 1643, reported to be the first girl born in New Sweden, died at Upland in the spring of 1689. In January 1662 she became the second wife of Pastor Lars Carlsson Lock, who came to New Sweden in 1648. Their children:
Anders Lock, born c. 1663, died 1716 in Gloucester County; married Christina Fish, sister of Casper Fish and widow of Hans Petersson, 6 children.
Måns, Lock, born c. 1665, died c. 1698 in Gloucester County; unmarried.
Catharine Lock, born c. 1668, died 1720 in Gloucester County; married John Jonasson [Nilsson], 5 daughters.
John Lock, born c. 1670, died 1720 in Gloucester County; married Catharine Hoffman, 4 children.
Peter Lock, born c. 1673, died 1731 in Gloucester County; married Maria, 9 children.
Maria Lock, born c. 1675, had illegitimate child by Hermanus Helm; not further traced.
Gustaf Lock, born c. 1680, died 1742 in Gloucester County; married Magdalena Hoffman, 8 children.
Another daughter (not identified) who told Peter Kalm in 1748 that her mother Beata Lom was thc first girl born in New Sweden.
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1624 - 1688 (64 years)
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