DescriptionAlthough identified beneath the photograph as depicting Israel Acrelius, this image reportedly matches a portrait of Peter Tranberg that is owned (2021) by the Old Swedes Historic Site in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Reverend Israel Acrelius from 1749 until 1756 was provost over Swedish Congregations in America and pastor of their church at Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware. He was also the author of the "History of New Sweden" that was first published in 1759. Acrelius was preceded as the pastor at Christina by the Reverend Peter Tranberg.