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• Fort New Elfsborg, now near Salem, New Jersey 1643-1651John A. Munroe, Colonial Delaware: A History (Millwood, N.Y.:KTO Press, 1978) [FHL book 975.1 H2mu], 24. “When ordered to build a fort so situated as to enable the Swedes to control all shipping on the Delaware, Printz constructed Fort Elfsborg on the Jersey shore, south of Salem Creek.” Spelled Älfsborg on the “Kartskiss öfver Nya Sverige 1638-55 (Efter Amandus Johnson)” a map image in “New Sweden” in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 7 November 2008) originally published in “Nya Sverige” in Nordisk familjebok. Uggleupplagan. 20. Norrsken - Paprocki (Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags, 1914), 153-54.