"schalbrick" - 1 õppematerjal

Revision Questions

1. What is known about the earliest settlers from Estonia to the territory of the present-day US? *The first immigrants from Estonia in the US = 1627 ­ no trace of the "Estonians and Livonians" who left their homeland to settle at the mouth of the Delaware River (a Swedish colony) · 1654 ­ at least one Estonian in the settlement of New Sweden on the Delaware River ­ Johan Schalbrick, a drummer from Tallinn (Reval) · New Sweden ­ Swedish colony on the Delaware River from 1638­1655 · 1657 ­ Martinus Hoffman, born in Tallinn (Reval), came to New York (New Amsterdam), started to work as a saddlemaker. · His great-granddaughter Cornelia Hoffmann (b. 1734) married Isaac Roosevelt, which makes her the great-great-grandmother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the US from 1933­45.