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- Note on Ancestry family tree
Peter Jochimson /Yocum (1st husband of Ella) died on governor's diplomatic mission to New Amsterdam
Joanna Mary Cain Family
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- 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. Their descendants used the surname of Yocum or Yocom.
From: The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. by Peter Stebbins Craig.
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1623 - 1654 (31 years)