Swedish South Company

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The Swedish South Company, also known as the Company of New Sweden (Swedish, {{lang|sv|Söderkompaniet}}, {{lang|sv|Nya Sverige-kompaniet}}), was a trading company from Sweden founded in 1626, that supported the trade between Sweden and its colony New Sweden, in North America. The colony was envisioned by its founding father Willem Usselincx; it was to become the first Swedish transoceanic trading project. [https://runeberg.org/nfck/0056.html Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan, Usselinxartikel] (läst 21 januari 2011) [http://www.tobakshistoria.com/1600.php Svensk Tobakshistoria] (läst 21 januari 2011) [http://www.colonialswedes.se/nya_sverige_grundas.htm Colonial Swedes] (läst 21 januari 2011) [https://runeberg.org/nfch/0096.html Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan, Söderkompanietartikel] (läst 21 januari 2011)Hampton L. Carson, « Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware », The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 33, no 1, 1909, p. 8Franklin 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 queen of Sweden in 1641. In 1655 New Sweden was annexed by New Netherland, this brought an end to the activities of the Swedish South Company, it was dissolved in 1680.