Editing History of the United States (section)

====Swedish settlement====
{{Main|New Sweden}}
[[File:Nothnagle Log House.JPG|thumb|[[C. A. Nothnagle Log House]] in [[Gibbstown, New Jersey]], the oldest wooden building in the United States]]
In the early years of the [[Sweden#Swedish Empire|Swedish Empire]], Swedish, Dutch, and German stockholders formed the [[New Sweden Company]] to trade furs and tobacco in North America. The company's first expedition was led by [[Peter Minuit]], who had been governor of New Netherland from 1626 to 1631, and landed in [[Delaware Bay]] in March 1638. The settlers founded [[Fort Christina]] at the site of modern-day [[Wilmington, Delaware]], and made treaties with Indigenous peoples for land ownership on both sides of the [[Delaware River]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Brief History of New Sweden in America |url=https://colonialswedes.net/History/History.html |website=colonialswedes.net |access-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-date=September 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921135312/http://www.colonialswedes.net/History/History.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=The Finns in America. The First Settlers |url=https://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article385e.htm |website=genealogia.fi |access-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001220039/https://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article385e.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Over the following seventeen years, 12 more expeditions brought settlers from the Swedish Empire to New Sweden. The colony established 19 permanent settlements along with many farms, extending into modern-day [[Maryland]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[New Jersey]]. It was incorporated into New Netherland in 1655 after a Dutch invasion from the neighboring New Netherland colony during the [[Second Northern War]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />