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- Swedish Name Gustav translated to the American name Justice or Justusor Justav, but not related to the Justice families at Coalfieldconnected to McGlothins.
Our Justice Family:
The Swedes were probably Goths from Denmark. They settled on theDeleware below Philadelphia in 1638, only 31 years afte rthe firstsettlement in America. The Sweedish anme Gustafsson means Gustaf'sson or Gustavus's son. Gustof means Goth's staff, or God's staff.Gustafssson became in turn Justason, or Justa, Justis, Justus, andJustice. The founder of the American family of Justice named hereinwas a man whose first name was Gustanus, since the Swedes added "son"to the first name instead of the last to form surnames, hence hs sonwas named Gustafsson. Surnames were not used in Sweden before 1300.John Gustafsson (1618-1693+) son of Gustavus came to from{sic}Kinejulle, Sweden, now called Kullen, a small seaport 100 milessouth of Gattenbury. He sailed from Gattenbury, November 1, 1642, onths Swan with Gov. Printz, in the Fifth Swedish Expedition and arrivedon the Deleware below the present site of Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1643.They spent Christmas on the island of Antiggua, and left it January 1,"having as many lemons and oranges as they could take with them."John Gustafsson was one of the 12 soldiers in Fort Elfsburg, below thepresent city of Philadelphia on the east side of the Deleware, from1644 to 1653. He was set down as a gunner in 1654. These 12 menbrought all ships to bya but "the fort becamse untenable on account ofthe Jersey Mosquitoes!"
John Gustafsson and 2 sons were taxable in 1677. Peter Stallcop inhis will, 1709, mentions his son-in-law, John Gustason, and ReverendBiork. Christopher Springer, in 1693, sent to Postmaster Theliln,Stockholm, a list of all the Swedes on the Delaware. There were 944(148 families); 26 of the 944 were Gustafssons, of whom "john was theonly one born in Sweden." Therefore, John Gustafsson, or Justice,must have been the ancestor of all and likely was the father of thefollowing:
a. Mounce (sometimes called Moses) 1638-1692; James (1645-xxx); Justa(1656-1721); Nils (1657-1748 + ); Charles (1661-1712); Hans (1663-1697+); and Anna (1666-xxx) who married Mathias Marton in 1690 and had 5children: Andrew (1692-), Morton (1693-), Maria (1696-), John (1697-),and Christiana (1699-).
Mounce Justice (1638-1692) had six children: Mounce (sometimes calledMoses ) (1659-1749), Swan, Peter, Bridget, Andrew, and Maria.
Mounce Justice married Christiana Swanson, the daughter of AndrewSwanson (1646-1694) also called Swenson, the son of Snen Gunnarson,who had a brother, Per (or Peter) and as the name indicates, was theson of a man in Sweden hose first name was Gunnar. Snen Gunnarsoncultivated tobacco on Schuylkill in 1644. He came to America in thefirst Swedish expedition in 1638 with Peter Minuet, accoompanied byhis wife and little son, Snen (1630-) who was boy herding cattle in1644.
Mounce Justice owned 250 acres in 1684 in Philadelphia. In 1701,Willam Penn gave him title to 700 acres (1300 rds by 86 rds) on theeast side of the Schuylkill river in the present city limits ofPhiladelphia, extending 1300 rds or 4 miles NE up through Germantown,300 acr3es of which he deeded to John Cox. No one has been able tofind, by deed or will, any record of the transfer of the remaining 400acres which is likely with billions, being some of the most valuableproperty in Philadelphia if it could be legally claimed it would be agreat forture. In 1683, 250 acres were conveyed to Mounce Justice inNorthern Liberties Philadelphia (now solid city) which he conveyed, bydeed, to his children: John, Andrew, Peter, Mounts, (Maurice orMoses), Gunnar, Bridget, Ann and Christiana.
John (1696-1763) a farmer in Philadelphia; Peter (1700-), a carpenter,married Ann Manson, Trent-Tavern; Bridget (176-) married Richard Tyson(1730) and had 4 children: Richard, William, Christiana, and Hester.Ann (1708-1775) was not married; Christiana (1710-1791) was notmarried. Christiana, Ann, and probably other relatives are buried inChrist Church burial ground, Philadelphia. Christiana's tombstone isabout 15 feet from Ben Franklin's grave.
Ann Justice married John Marton, signer of the Declaration ofIndependence who gave the deciding vote in the PA delegation, thisinsuring the marjoity for the Declaration. He resided at RidleyDelaware Co., PA. He is buried at Chester; his wife at Great ValleyPA.
Moses Justice (1760-) came down from PA into Viriginia then on intoNorth Carollina. He is listed in Annals of Southwest Virginia,1769-1800, by Lewis Preston Summers:
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1618 - 1693 (75 years)