New Sweden to Rhode Island in the 1680s?

I do follow "New Sweden" - project but not any DNA-projects. I only can tell about the name tradition in Sweden att the time.

Andersdotter is a typical partonymikon, which means that all the children of a man named Anders had their own name given at baptism and in the churchbooks his Anders with the suffix -son or -daughter. So Anders himself could have been mr Anders Nilsson or Svensson and his wife was a miss och widow xx -daughter. The patronymikon "family name" survived only for one genereation. All the sons of Anders had their own baptism names and those gave the name to their children.

The familynames Mattesson and Johnson you mention may hav been patronymikons (name given by the male/the father). For the men ! But not for the females who was given those names by marriage in America. In "old" Sweden the females kept their birthname e. g. Andersdotter evan if they married. From birth til their death they were Anders' daughter.

To find a specific Anders' daughter at the actual time in Sweden might have some problems. You have to find all the Anders in Sweden who might have married a man onboard any of the ships to New Sweden. That man could have been a Nilsson, Johnsson, Mattson.

Sincerally Agneta
Agneta

Thanks for posting this. I'm interested in this topic.

thanks for the responses! further research indicates the the Matteson's of colonial Rhode Island came from Denmark in the mid-1600s so it's likely that the Anders[suffix] did too and won't be part of the New Sweden group. BUT, who knows if some of these families didn't move into Sweden where my DNA match is and whose posted ancestors don't go back to the 1600s. I admit that I'm still confused about the last name usages. Also with further research, I discovered that the Mercy mentioned in Rachel (Andres?) Nichols Gardner's Last Will, was her daughter who married the Joniah/Josiah Matteson.

Thanks again!

Here’s the Geni tree

Josiah Matteson

Erica Howton Thanks so much!