Sweden then included Finland and Estonia, along with parts of modern Russia, Poland, Germany, Norway and Latvia under King Gustavus Adolphus.

[1] Marcus Jacobson, (alias John Brinckson) was either a Finn or Swede of notably large size, who while living in England, was convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to penal transportation to the Province of Maryland.

During a dinner on September 4, Justice Peter Cock was present when a group of Swedes were persuaded by Jacobson to swear an oath of allegiance to the King of Sweden.

Jacobson was found guilty and sentenced to be, "publicly and severely whipped and branded in the face with the letter "R" for Rebellion, after which he be secured until he can be sent and sold to the Barbadoes or some other remote plantation".

[3] On January 25, 1670, Jacobson was put aboard the merchant ship Fort Albany and transported to be sold into indentured servitude in Barbados, after that date nothing more was known about him.

[5] In 1823, American author and future Secretary of the Navy James Kirke Paulding would write a highly romanticized novel based loosely on the events of the revolt titled, Koningsmarke, The Long Finne: A Story of the New World.