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Måns Nilsson Kling or
Mauno Kling was the Lieutenant in command of the 17th century
New Sweden settlement, headquartered at
Fort Christina, now
Wilmington,
Delaware, in the
United States. He may have been of
Finnish origin,
Finland then belonging to
Sweden. He arrived with the first expedition on
March 29,
1638 and was left in command from
June 15,
1638 until April 1640.
The first Swedish expedition to North America was launched from the port of
Gothenburg in late 1637. The expedition was organized and overseen by the Admiral
Klas Fleming. A Dutchman
Samuel Blommaert assisted with the fitting-out and appointed
Peter Minuit to lead the expedition.
Peter Minuit was to become the first governor of the newly established colony of
New Sweden. However, Minuit reportedly died in the summer of 1638 during a
hurricane at
St. Christopher in the
Caribbean, while on a journey back to Europe. Thus, the official duties of the first governor of
New Sweden were carried out by Lieutenant (then raised to the rank of Captain) Mauno Kling, until the next governor was chosen and brought in from the mainland Sweden, two years later.
In
1636–
1637 Minuit made arrangements with
Samuel Blommaert and the
Swedish government to create the first Swedish colony in the New World. Located on the lower
Delaware River at what is now
Wilmington, Delaware, within the territory later claimed by the Dutch, it was called
New Sweden, with the Swedes landing there in the spring of 1638.
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