Early Emigration from Hadeland
Halvor Larson Lysenstøen was the first to emigrate from Hadeland in 1842. In 1846 he revisited Norway and appeared unannounced one Sunday morning at a church in Brandbu. He lived at Muskego and was among the first to settle at Washington Prairie, Iowa. (p. 117 & 339)
The departure of Abraham Olson Rustad and his large family, and Jens and Brede Anderson Holt created quite a sensation in 1849. This first group to leave from Hadeland settled at Rock Prairie WI. The settlement would eventually include 800 from Hallingdal, 600 from Numedal, and 600 from Hadeland. (p. 332)
Settlements at Wiota and Yellowstone Valley in LaFayette County were made up of 2500 people from Land and Hadeland. These people moved up from Rock Prairie on the Illinois-Wisconsin line. (p. 182)
When the Minnesota Territory opened for settlement in the 1850's, Hadelendings were part of that migration. The populations of Spring Grove and Wilmington (Houston County MN) are made up primarily of Norwegians from Hallingdal, Sigdal, and Hadeland. (p. 360)
In 1848, the first people in the Gran parish's "Udflyttede" who list their destination as America were: 1 April Erik Larsen Lyseneiet, a single man born on Askimeiet in 1823 22 April Hans Nilsen Dæhleneiet, a single man born in 1824 27 April Emil Hansen Skari, born 1831 28 April Ole Iversen Melbostadeiet, born 1813 His wife, Marie Evensdtr born 1807 Their son, Iver, born on Klæstad in 1840 Husmand Johansen Blekeneiet, born 1818 His wife, Gudbjørg Thorsdtr, born 1818 Their daughter, Kari, born 1845
In 1849 the church book shows that 85 persons listed their destination as America. In 1850, 71 persons; 1851, 56; 1852, 111; 1853, 141; and in 1854, 112 persons registered their departure for America in the udflyttede.
The earliest Norwegian settlements
were:
6. 1840-Koshkonong, in Dane County Wisconsin |
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