Kinnekulle is a large wooded hill or plateau, nine miles long and fourmiles across, rising 860 feet above Lake Vanern in Skaraborg Lan incentral Sweden.

"jan JUSTEN" on 13 Feb 1655/56 (English Calendar), requested he beallowed to make a plantation on the Christina Kill.

By 1669 he was at Kingsessing/West Philadelphia, PA; on the banks ofSchuulkill and was granted a patent there as John EUSTA, dated 16 May1669.

In the first English census of the Delaware, taken in 1671, Johangustafsson was listed as "John Eustace." The Nov 1677 tax list forthe Upland couourt jurisdiction showed a slight improvement in nameing"Jan Justa & 2 sons" as taxable (i.e., over 16 years of age).

After the surrender of New Sweden to the Dutch, John Gustafsson movednorthward to Kingsessing where he died c. 1682, leaving a widow and atleast eleven children. They kept Gustafsson as their surname, but itwas heard and written by the English and Eustason, Justison, etc.Justis, Justus or Justice finally evolved as the family surname.

Johan Gustafsson (1618-1682) sailed from Gottenburg November 1, 1642,on the "Swan" with Governor Printz in the Fifth Swedish Expedition andarrived on the Delaware below the present site of Philadelphia, Feb15, 1643. Johan was one of the twelve soldiers in Fort Elfborg belowthe present city of Philadelphia on the east side of the Delaware from1644 to 1653.

He came as a soldier under Governor Printz. Printz' successor,Governor Rising, promoted him to the position of a gunner and , assuch, he was stationed at fort trinity(New castle) in 1655 whenCaptain Sven Skute surrendered the fort to the Dutch.

Came on the SWAN to the colony of New Sweden, on the Delaware River on1 Nov 1642. Landed at Fort Christina (now Wilmington), DE), 15 Feb1643.
Later stationed at Fort Elfsborg, and then to Fort Trinity.

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• Married: ABT 1654 in Fort Trinity, New Castle Co., DE
• Sealing Spouse:

1. Gustaf (Justa) GUSTAFSSON (JUSTIS) b: 1655 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
2. Mans (Mounce) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1658 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
3. Carl (Charles) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1660 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
4. HANS (Hance) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1662 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
5. Annika (Anna) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1670 in Philadelphia, PA
6. Johan (John) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1666 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
7. Peter GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1670 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
8. Jacob GUSTAFSSON b: 1673 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
9. Elizabeth GUSTAFSSON (JUSTIS) b: 1675 in
10. Sven (Swan) GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1677 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA
11. Anders GUSTAFSSON(JUSTIS) b: 1681 in Philadelphia, PA

1. Abbrev: SOURCE #2
   Title: Bruce A. Johnson
   windridr@datanet.ab.ca
   #109-9312-104 Ave.
   Edmonton, AB, T5H 4G7
   (403) 429-5696
2. Abbrev: SOURCE #5
   Title: Stephen L. Butler
   3414 - 137 St. NW
   Gig Harbor, WA 98332
   (206) 858-8647
3. Abbrev: SOURCE #35
   Title: "The Swedish Ancestry of Moses Justus of Schuyler County, IL"
   Author: Peter Stebbins Craig, J.D.
   Publication: Washington, D.C. 1990
4. Abbrev: SOURCE #36
   Title: "JUSTIS, JUSTUS, JUSTICE FOR ALL; A Compilation of Early AmericanFamily Records"
   Author: Joyce Justus Parris
   Publication: 220 Northwest Avenue
   Swannanoa, NC 28778
   1993
   Page: pg 8
5. Abbrev: SOURCE #37
   Title: "the 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware"
   Author: Peter Stebbins Craig
   Publication: SAG Publications
   Winter Park, Florida
   1993
   Page: p 36
6. Abbrev: SOURCE #36
   Title: "JUSTIS, JUSTUS, JUSTICE FOR ALL; A Compilation of Early AmericanFamily Records"
   Author: Joyce Justus Parris
   Publication: 220 Northwest Avenue
   Swannanoa, NC 28778
   1993
7. Abbrev: SOURCE #91
   Title: Susie Lewis Struckhoff
   SLSUZLEW@aol.com