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Gov. John Dawson

Third Governor Was Run Out of Utah After 3 Weeks
By Will Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune (Dec. 30, 2001)

Nobody ever had a worse New Year’s Eve than the Utah Territory’s third governor, John W. Dawson.

Dawson, an Indiana lawyer and newspaper editor, had a tough time during the three December weeks he spent in Utah in 1861. In a speech to the Legislature, he called on Mormons to pay $26,982 in federal taxes to help fight the Civil War.

Brigham Young did not like the idea. First, the Feds would want the taxes and then “they will want us to send 1,000 men to the war.” He would “see them in Hell before I will raise an army for them.” The LDS prophet said that anyone who had been a newspaper editor for 15 years must be “a jackass.”

After Dawson vetoed a popular scheme to win statehood for the Territory of Deseret, someone took five shots at a federal judge in front of the governor’s rooms on Main Street. Local authorities laughed it off, but Dawson got the message.

On New Year’s Eve, he boarded an eastbound stagecoach under “circumstances somewhat novel and puzzling.” Dawson said his health “imperatively demanded” that he return home, but the Deseret News reported he left “in a state of mental derangement, or in other words, distressingly insane.”

An LDS apostle charged that the governor had gotten in trouble “hunting a seamstress.” Dawson allegedly propositioned a Mormon widow, who “drove him out of her house with a fire shovel,” which, the News claimed, accounted for his mental state. An odd gang of rowdies fell in behind the stagecoach as it rumbled up Emigration Canyon to Mountain Dell.

“I was followed by a band of Danites [legendary Mormon vigilantes],” Dawson informed Abraham Lincoln. That night the crowd at the stage-coach station got drunk. After the governor discovered someone had stolen his valuable beaver robe, stage driver Wood Reynolds knocked him down. Lot Huntington and other thugs then inflicted serious violence on their victim. The gang wounded “my head badly in many places, kicking me in the loins and right breast until I was exhausted,” Dawson wrote. Once the governor had been “viciously assaulted & beaten,” and, according to some, castrated, the hoodlums carried “on their orgies for many hours in the night.”

This vile attack upset Salt Lake City authorities and they ordered the perpetrators rounded up. The ruffians claimed the chief of police had ordered the assault, but within a month most of them were dead at the hands of either Orrin Porter Rockwell, at the time a deputy sheriff, or the Salt Lake City police.

“How long does the government intend to persist in foisting such characters upon us?” asked Brigham Young. “It is our purpose to no more endure the imposition of such men as . . . Governor Dawson.”

Dawson said he felt the “misrepresentation calumny & unjustifiable invective” in the Deseret News was an attempt to justify his assault. Given the rough handling Dawson received, one might expect historians to give him a break, but most Utah chroniclers treat him as badly as the thugs did that New Year’s Eve at Mountain Dell.

Ironically, being Utah’s shortest serving governor was not John Dawson’s greatest claim to fame. The battered politician returned to Indiana and spent his last 15 years as a pain-wracked invalid. He devoted his time to the study of local history, earning the title “the Herodotus of Fort Wayne.”

Dawson published the first account of the adventures of John Chapman, an old friend who had spent 49 years wandering the frontier planting apple trees. Walt Disney eventually made Chapman famous, but it was John Dawson who created the American legend, “Johnny Appleseed.”

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Grant

“Stand Fast”

The Grants are a Scottish clan, traditionally said to be descended from Gregor Mor MacGregor, who lived in the 12th century. On that basis the Grants are one of the principal branches of the Siol Alpin, of which Clan MacGregor is the chief. However, the name father of the clan is sometimes said to have been Haakon Magnus, a Norse king. The two traditions are not compatible. The first recorded ancestor of the chiefs was Sir Lawrence Grant, Sheriff of Inverness in 1263. The first ancestor from whom it is possible to trace the inheritance of the chiefship was Sir Ian Ruadh Grant, Sheriff of Inverness in 1434.

The present chief is Sir James Patrick Trevor Grant of Grant, Baronet and 33rd Chief. The clan is divided into five branch clans: Grant of Freuchie (the chiefs), Grant of Auchernack (Clan Allan), Grant of Tullochgorm (Clan Phadraig), Grant of Gartenbeg (Clan Donnachie, Baronets of Dalvey), Grant of Dellachapple (Clan Chiaran). The Grants of Corrimony and Grants of Ballindalloch are feudal Barons. Glenmoriston is also a possession of a branch of the family.

Battle of Dunbar

Peter Grant was taken prisoner at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 and deported to America.

During the English Civil War, the Parliamentary Army executed King Charles I. His son Charles attempted to regain his father’s throne through various invasions originating in Scotland. The Scots, although by religion in sympathy with the Parliamentarians, were loyal to the Stuart dynasty. During one of these invasions Oliver Cromwell, Protector of England, marched on the Scots. The Scots surrounded the English army at Dunbar, but General David Leslie, commander of the Scottish army, believed that the English were still in the best position. The Covenanters (leaders of the Scottish Presbyterian Church) claimed that victory had been revealed to them in a vision and ordered Gen. Leslie to attack the English, which he did on 3 September 1650. The battle lasted all day and the Scots were defeated. Ten thousand of Leslie’s forces, including the whole of the Scottish foot, surrendered. Three thousand were killed. Cromwell wrote, “I do not believe that we have lost twenty men.”

One hundred forty members of Clan Grant, including Peter Grant, fought for Prince Charles under the command of the Chief’s brother at the Battle of Dunbar. The English pursued many remnants of the Scottish army as far as eight miles before capturing them. The English took 5,000 prisoners and marched them 100 miles from Dunbar to Durham and Newcastle in England. The Cathedral at Durham was converted into a prison for the prisoners. Banks wrote, “Their food consisted of Pottage made with Oatmeal, Beef and Cabbage, a full Quart at every Meal for every Prisoner. They had also Coals daily brought them, as many as made about 100 Fires both Night and Day and Straw to lie upon.” Yet, 1,600 of them died in 58 days from disease and lack of medical attention to their wounds. Of the surviving prisoners, 900 were sent to Virginia and 150 to New England. Peter Grant was among those deported to New England. They sailed on the ‘Unity’ captained by Augustine Walker. The ‘Unity’ sailed in the winter instead of waiting for spring, so the trip was rough and the prisoners had scurvy, but all arrived safely in Boston near the end of December. The prisoners were sold as indentured servants for £20-30 each, and were expected to work off the price of their voyage for 6-8 years, then be given their freedom. The typical cost for passage across the sea was £5, so Capt. Walker made quite a profit. Peter Grant was sold to work at the Lynn Iron Works in Massachusetts and like his fellow prisoners probably received his first medical attention after the battle from his purchasers.

Battle of Worcester

In 1651 another battle for Prince Charles, the Battle of Worcester, resulted in the deportation to New England of Peter’s brother, James Grant, and a kinsman of theirs, another James Grant.

Origin of the Grant Family of Berwick, Maine

A tradition in one branch of this Grant family claims that the surname was originally MacGregor and that an ancestor adopted the surname Grant, as did many of the MacGregors when that surname was outlawed in 1604 after the Battle of Glenfruin in 1603. Some American sources say our Grant family is probably from the Glenmoriston area of Scotland because only the Grants of Glenmoriston are said to have participated in the Battle of Dunbar at which Peter Grant was captured. However, Prof. Gordon Donaldson of the Scots Ancestry Research Society states that there is no authority for a particular part played by the Grants of Glenmoriston in that battle. In fact, James of Freuchie, the 16th chief of Grant, raised the entire clan for Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The confusion probably arose from events 100 years later. After the Revolution of 1688, the Grants of Freuchie supported the new regime, while the Grants of Glenmoriston supported the exiled Stuarts. During the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Duke of Cumberland’s men ravaged the lands and burned the house of Grant of Glenmoriston. After the Battle of Culloden ended the Stuart hopes, Grant of Freuchie persuaded 70 of the Glenmoriston Grants to return to Inverness and surrender their arms, promising them their freedom. Instead, the government captured them, convicted them, and sold them as indentured servants in the colonies. In 1746, when the Young Pretender was in hiding in the Highlands, he took refuge in a cave with a band of robbers who have gone down in legend as “The Seven Men of Glenmoriston.” One of those men was a “Black” Peter Grant.

Instead of Glenmoriston, it is more likely that this family of Grants came from Strathspey. In 1650, 140 Grants fought at the Battle of Dunbar under the command of the chief’s brother. A year later, 150 Grants from Strathspey, the area ruled by the chiefs, Grant of Freuchie, fought under the chief at the Battle of Worcester. Because three different Grants in this family were captured and deported after these two battles, it seems likely that all three came from Strathspey.

Peter Grant was probably not among the gentry of the clan. After the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester those who held the rank of Captain and above (that is, the gentlemen) were imprisoned, while those below the rank of Captain were transported. Further, neither Peter nor the two James are recorded as having been officers at Dunbar or Worcester.

In 1997 I suggested James Grant the Drummer might have been James Grant of Auchterblair, an illegitimate son of James Grant of Ardneidlie and Logie. In 1629 James of Auchterblair married his cousin Agnes, daughter of Robert Grant of Lurg. They had a son Peter, born about 1630. They are also said, on unknown authority, to have been the parents of Deborah Grant, wife of John Knowlton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. This family of Grants came to an unknown end. They were replaced at Auchterblair by a different family of Grants sometime before 1673.

It was a nice theory but it didn’t bear up to yDNA analysis. The yDNA signature of the descendants of Peter Grant (R-CTS3655) does not match the yDNA signature of the chief’s family (R-DF88).

Grant Tartan
Grant Tartan

Lineal Genealogy

  1. Gregory le Grant, said to have been a cadet of the MacGregors.
  2. Sir Laurence le Grant (about 1230-?), Sheriff of Inverness; married a daughter of Gilbert de Comyn.
  3. John le Grant of Inverallan (about 1296-?).
  4. Sir John Grant (about 1333-about 1370), married Elizabeth.
  5. Sir John Grant (about 1380-?), married Matilda, daughter of Gilbert Comyn of Glencairnie.
  6. Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchie (before 1413-about 1472).
  7. John Grant, younger of Freuchie (about 1448-1482), married Muriel, daughter of Malcolm Macintosh of that Ilk.
  8. John Grant of Freuchie (about 1462-1528), married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Findlater.
  9. James Grant of Freuchie (about 1485-1553), married Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Forbes.
  10. John Grant of Freuchie (1507-1585), married Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Atholl.
  11. Duncan Grant, younger of Freuchie (1527-1582), married Margaret, daughter of William Macintosh of that Ilk.
  12. James Grant of Logie & Ardneidlie (abt 1568-?), had by an unknown mistress:
  13. James Grant of Auchterblair (abt 1605-?), married Agnes Grant of Lurg.
  14. Peter Grant of Auchterblair (abt 1630).

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  1. James Grant “the Drummer” (abt 1605-1683), captured at the Battle of Worcester (1651) and deported to America. He left property to Peter Grant, to Peter Grant’s son James, and to his own foster daughter Elizabeth Grant, the daughter of Peter’s brother James, but without naming his relationship to any of them. Historians are divided on the question, but he might have been the father of Peter Grant.

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  1. Peter Grant (abt 1634-abt 1712), of Berwick, Maine; married 1664 Joanna (Ingersoll?), the widow of his brother James Grant “the Scotchman” and perhaps daughter of Lt. George Ingersoll, of Salem, Massachusetts. Peter Grant was captured at the Battle of Dunbar (1650) and deported to America.
  2. Capt. James Grant (1672-1735), of Kittery, Maine; married Mary Nason, daughter of Jonathan Nason, of Berwick, Maine. James Grant served as a Captain in the local militia during King Philip’s War.
  3. Capt. James Grant (1703-1765), of Kittery, Maine; married Sarah Joy, daughter of Ephraim Joy, of Kittery, Maine. James Grant was a member of the Louisburg Expedition against the French in 1745, and in 1757 Captain of the Montsweag Militia.
  4. Capt. Andrew Grant (1730-1809), of Woolwich, Maine; married Elizabeth Dunton, daughter of Timothy Dunton, of Westport, Maine. Andrew Grant served as a Captain in the Penobscot Regiment during the American Revolution. In 1777 his company marched to the Relief of Machias, Maine, and engaged the British at the Battle of Machias.
  5. Ruth Grant (1775-1860); married Malatiah Luce (1772-1849), of Vinalhaven, Maine. She was born the year before the American Revolution, went west with the Mormons to Nauvoo in 1838, and went from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City in 1850 at the age of 75. She died at Ogden, Utah in 1860 at the age of 85.
Castle Grant

 

Coat of Arms

Grant of Freuchie: Gules three antique crowns Or. Crest: A burning hill proper. Supporters: Two savages proper. Motto: Stand fast.

The hill depicted in the crest is Craigeleachie (opposite Rothemurchus), where a fire was lighted to call the whole clan together in Strathspey, the seat of the Grants in Morayshire.

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Grant Badge
Grant Badge (Source: Wikipedia)
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Ulrich Howry’s Estate (1724)

Ulrich Howry, a Mennonite, was granted 150 acres at Conestoga, Pennsylvania in 1717 and enjoined to be naturalized. He died in 1723, dividing his estate between his “brethren” and his widow Barbara.

Barbara Howry’s Bond as Administrator of Wolrick Howry’s Estate
transcribed by Pat Sorenson

Know all men by these presents that wee Barbara Howry John Lampher and Edmund Carlisle ? of the County of Chester and province of Pennsylvania are held and firmly bound unto Peter Evan Register General for the probate of wills and granting letters of Administration in and for the Province of Pennsylvania in the sum of one Hundred pounds Currant mony of the province aforesaid to be paid to the Register General his certain Attorney Executor Administrator or Assigns to which payment well and truly to be made toe bind ourselves jointly and severaly for and in the whole our heirs Exe. Of Adm firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals Dated the Second day of June Anno Dom 1724.

The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounders Barbara Howry Adminstrator of all and Singular ye goods rights and credits of Wolrick Howry Deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all the singular ye goods rights and credits of tye said Deceased which have or shall come to hands possesion or knowledge of the Said Barbara Howry or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons [hole in document] the same so made exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Reg. off of Co. of Chester [looks like due to hole] on or before the Forth Day of Jun necessary and value given such at the time of his Death were of the said Deceased or which at all [hole] Shall come to the hands possession of knowledge of persons.

Barbara Howry or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons the same do we are truly administer according to laws and further doe make or cause to be made a true and just account of their said administration at or before the first day of June which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty six and all of rest and residue of said goods rights and credits which shall be found remaining upon the Adm. Account of the same being first examined and allowed of by the Orphans Court of the County of Chester shall deliver and pay unto such person and persons respectively as the said Court by its decree and sentence as the said Court by its Decree and Sentence and persuant to Law shall limitt and appoint ??? that shall hereafter appear that any Last will and Testament was made b y the Deceased by the Exe. of Executors therein named to exhibitt the same unto the Registers Office at Chester making request to have it allowed and approved of Accordingly of the Said Barbara Howry’85 .being thereunto requested do render and deliver up the s aid letter of Administration Approbation of such certain being first had ye made at the said office that then this obligation to be void or else to be and remain in full force and virtue with effect.

Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of

Fran: Worley (his mark)

Barbara Howry (her mark)

David ??? (his mark)

???

Edm d Cartlisle

[three wax seals]

Inventory of Wolrick Howry’s Estate
transcribed by Pat Sorenson

Inventory of the Lands and Tennements Goods and Chattles of Wolrick Howry late of Conestoga Deceased. Taken and applied by us the subscribers as they was shewed us by his widdow Barbara Howry the Twentyeth day of March Anno domini 1723/4

Item
To 75 acres of land with all of the buildings and improvements thereon £ 20
To 1 mare and 2 colts £ 6 10
To 2 Cows and 2 Calves 4 10
To 2 young steers 2 5
To 5 piggs 15 0
To 5 yd farmming 7 6
To Sundry household goods 17 4
[Total] £ 35 5s.

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Sundet

Svensk

Sundet by Per Lundqvist

Soldattorp no 16 Sundet Sevedes kompani Kalmar regemente.

Från början ett torp under frälsegården, efter laga skiftet 1843-1847 även soldattorp. Det ligger längst ned i sydöst på Ekvik utmed sjön, och på kartan 1847 finns där tre stycken byggnader. Bostadshuset ligger troligen på samma ställe som idag, men där dagens lagård ligger finns två mindre byggnader, kartan är ritad innan man flyttade dit soldattorpet. Dåtidens utfartsväg är den som kommer ut vid vägskälet norr om Kvittesten, mot Korsbo fanns det ingen väg uttagen. Det verkar som torpen på frälset är uppbyggda på 1700-talet och i något fall i början på 1800-talet. De första jag hittat i husförhörslängden 1795-1805 är:

Torpare Pär Larsson f. 1746 i Västergötland, hustrun Anna-Lisa Svensdotter f. 1750 dottern Britta Cajsa f. 1782 samt Kajsa Johansdotter f. 1730. På längden 1806-11 finns även den äldre systern Maja f. 1780 gift med Ulrik Jonsson f. 1766 i Kisa med barnen Maja Greta f. 1801, Anna Lisa f. 1802, tvillingarna Johannes och Inga f. 1810. Pär avled 1818, Anna-Lisa flyttade till Kasinge samma år, troligen till Britta Cajsa som flyttat dit ett tiotal år tidigare men hon avled 1819. Maja Persdotter står 1820-25 som änka “sjuk och utfattig” Maja hade en oäkta son Anders Peter f. 1815, hon blev änka 1812.

Ny torpare från 1818: Nils Jacobsson f.1781, hustrun Stina Carlsdotter f. 1788 i Åtvidaberg, dottern Anna Sofia f. 1817, sonen Nils Peter f. 1824,samt 2 stycken fosterbarn Lovisa f. 1806 och Carl Jacob f. 1809, det finns en notering om att de var barnhusbarn från Stockholm. Nils med familj flyttar till Gärdserum 1828.

Ny från 1828: Torpare Anders Andersson f. 1777 i Tryserum, hustrun Stina Eliadotter f. 1786 barnen Anders f. 1815, Carl Johan f. 1822, Gustaf f. 1824. De flyttar vidare till Torp redan samma år, sedan kommer 1828:

Torpare Nils Andersson f. 179? i Lofta, hustru Catharina Eliadotter f. 1800, barnen Maja Cajsa f. 1827, Anders f. 1829, Carl Johan f. 1832, Nils Peter f. 1834, August f. 1837 som dräng står Majas son Johannes Ulricsson “ofärdig”.

Maja Persdotter bor ihop med drängen Lars Månsson f. 1789 men kommer 1838 till fattigstugan, Anders Peter flyttade samma år till “Korsbo”, där finns även Gustav Reinhold f. 1828 som 1836 flyttade till Hällen.

I laga skiftet 1843-47 bestämdes nya gränser för gårdarna, och frälsets knekttorp flyttades från Norrhult till Sundet. Skiftes protokollet berättar att från kullen flyttades “Stuga, loge med lada samt fähus med skull” ersättning 83,8 riksdaler banco. Samtidigt avskedades gamla knekten Kleij och en ny städslades från 1846:

Soldat Karl Johan Svanström f. 1823, hustrun Anna Sofia Jonsdotter f. 1826, barnen Karl Oskar f. 1848 (1872-76 skriven som Karl Oskar Hylen nr 72 vid livgrenadjärerna), Johan August f. 1851, Sofia Matilda f. 1856 (senare till Räfshult), Charlotte Eleonora f. 1858 (senare till Ljusne), Adolf Ferdinand f. 1862, Frans Evald f. 1865, Hilma Ottilia f. 1868

Omkring 1858 kommer arbetaren Jonas Petter Pettersson f. 1822, hustrun Anna Larsdotter f. 1805 dottern Selma Maria Cristina f. 1843. Selmahade en oäkta dotter Anna Sofia f. 1866, som fader står Johan Petter Alfred Larsson i Kolsebo (Alfred i Humpen), de tog ut lysning samma år och gifte sig senare. Under en period fanns det även 2 stycken pigor skrivna där Cristina Ulrika Dalström f. 1847 samt Anna Charlotta Dalström f. 1854.

1862-71 skrivs de på Lilla Sundet, och 1876-85 nämns för första gången att de bor på Nabben (se familjen vidare på Nabben).

Omkring 1877 flyttar knekten till undantagsstugan Strömsborg som är byggt på Sundets västra ände, ny knekt:

Soldat Carl Oscar Svanström f. 1856, hustrun Clara Matilda Josefsdotter f. 1856, barnen Hilma Matilda f. 1881, Carl Oscar f. 1883, Uno Severin f. 1885. Detär soldattorp fram till 1911 då det styckas av (3:10) och köps loss från frälset (Ekvik 3:2,3:4-3:7) av Johan Gottfrid Andersson från Fallvik enligt köpekontrakt 30/12 1911. C O Svanström hade rätt att bo i Strömsborg under sin och hustruns livstid men efter deras död tillfaller torpet köparen av Sundet.

English

This page is machine translation into English of the Swedish text. The translation was made by Systrans. One of these days I’ll get it cleaned up into a real translation.

Sundet by Per Lundqvist

Soldier’s croft no 16 Sundet Sevedes company, Kalmar regiment.

From the start a torp during the saving farm, after repair the parcel 1843-1847 also soldattorp. The lies longest down in southeast on Ekvik along the sea, and on the map 1847 exists there three paragraphs buildings. Bostadshuset lies probably on same place that today, but there today’s lagård lies to finns two smaller buildings, the map is drawn before man moved there soldattorpet. Those days’ exit road is the as comes out the wide road reason north about Kvittesten, against Korsbo existed the no road the levying. The seems as torpen on frälset is edified on 1700-talet and in some case in beginning on 1800-talet. The first I found in the house interrogation length 1795-1805 is:

Torpare Pär Larsson b. 1746 in Västergötland, the wife Anna-Lisa Svensdotter b. the 1750 daughter Britta Cajsa b. 1782 and Kajsa Johansdotter b. 1730. Lengthwise 1806-11 exists also the older sister Maja b. 1780 poison with Ulrik Jonsson b. 1766 in Kisa with the children Maja Greta b. 1801, Anna Lisa b. 1802, the twins Johannes and no b. 1810. Pär died 1818, Anna-Lisa moved to Kasinge same year, probably to Britta Cajsa as moved there a ten years earlier but she died 1819. Maja Persdotter stands 1820-25 as widow “having a propensity to and utfattig” Maja had a false son Anders’s Peter b. 1815, she became widow 1812.

New torpare from 1818: Nils Jacobsson b.1781, the wife Stina Carlsdotter b. 1788 in Åtvidaberg, the daughter Anna Sofia b. 1817, the son Nils’s Peter b. 1824, and 2 paragraphs foetus child Lovisa b. 1806 and Carl Jacob b. 1809, the exists a comment about that the each child house child from Stockholm. Nils with family moves to Gärdserum 1828.

New from 1828: Torpare Anders’s Andersson b. 1777 in Tryserum, the wife Stina Eliadotter b. the 1786 children Anders b. 1815, Carl Johan b. 1822, Gustaf b. 1824. Those moves further to Torp already same year, since comes 1828:

Torpare Nils’s Andersson b. 179? in Lofta, wife Catharina Eliadotter b. 1800, the children Maja Cajsa b. 1827, Anders b. 1829, Carl Johan b. 1832, Nils’s Peter b. 1834, August b. 1837 as farmhand stands Majas son Johannes Ulricsson “ofärdig”.

Maja Persdotter lives together with the farmhand Lars’s Månsson b. 1789 but comes 1838 to the poor cottage, same Anders’s Peter moved year to “Korsbo”, where exists also Gustav Reinhold b. 1828 as 1836 moved to Hällen.

In repair the parcel 1843-47 was decided new boundaries for the farms, and frälsets knekttorp was moved from Norrhult to the sound. The parcel’s minute tells that from the hill was moved “cottage, barn with lada and beast houses with sake” compensation 83,8 riksdaler banco. Concurrent was dismissed old knekten Kleij and a new anvil is placed from 1846:

Soldier man Johan Svanström b. 1823, the wife Anna Sofia Jonsdotter b. 1826, the children man Oskar b. 1848 (1872-76 typed as man Oskar Hylen noes 72 at livgrenadjärerna), Johan August b. 1851, Sofia Matilda b. 1856 (latter to Räfshult), Charlotte Eleonora b. 1858 (latter to Ljusne), Adolf Ferdinand b. 1862, Frans Evald b. 1865, Hilma Ottilia b. 1868

About 1858 comes the worker Jonas Petter Pettersson b. 1822, the wife Anna Larsdotter b. the 1805 daughter Selma Maria Cristina b. 1843. Selmahade an illegitimate daughter Anna Sofia b. 1866, as father stands Johan Petter Alfred Larsson in Kolsebo (Alfred in Humpen), the took out lysning same year and married latter. During a period existed the also 2 paragraphs maids typed there Cristina Ulrika Dalström b. 1847 and Anna Charlotta Dalström b. 1854.

1862-71 is typed the on the small sound, and 1876-85 is mentioned for first past that the lives on Nabben (sees the family further on Nabben).

About 1877 relocations knekten to the exception cottage Strömsborg that is built on the sound’s west end, new knekt:

Soldier Carl Oscar Svanström b. 1856, the wife Clara Matilda Josefsdotter b. 1856, the children Hilma Matilda b. 1881, Carl Oscar b. 1883, Uno Severin b. 1885. Detär soldattorp until 1911 then the is parcelled out of (3: 10) and is bought loose from frälset (Ekvik 3:2,3: 4-3: 7) of Johan Gottfrid Andersson from Fallvik according to purchase contracts 30/12 1911. C O Svanström had fairly to live in Strömsborg during your and the wife’s life but after their death goes to torpet the consumer of the sound.

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Our Mennonite Cousins

The following extracts give some account of the Mennonite Hauri family at Hirschthal in Schöftland. The wool-weaver Hans Hauri left Switzerland in 1711 with his wife and two sons. The two sons, Hans and Ulrich, immigrated to Pennsylvania about 1717. A third son, Jacob, remained in Germany.

“In the 17th century Kulm became the center of the Swiss Brethren movement in the Wynen Valley. Heinrich Muller had come this far on his journey of propaganda, & persuaded many to emigrate to Moravia. We find familiar names among them & their relatives, such as Hans Haury of Hirschtal (had to pay a fine of 100 pounds for his sister).” (Mennonite Encyclopedia, pp. 4-5)

“After the Thirty Years’ War only a few traces of the Anabaptist movement were found in Aargau. Among the names recorded are Martin Burger of Burg in Reinach, Rudolph Kuenzy at Murgren, Bernhard Rohr at Uerkheim, Datwyler in Offringen, Hans Dester and Jacob Gut, who was banished Sept. 10, 1660. The rest of the Swiss Brethren also left their homeland & emigrated to Alsace and the Palatinate (especially in 1671). Those who remained rallied around the Bachmann family in Bottwyl & the Haury family in Waldgraben. Most of these took part in the great emigration of the Swiss Brethren in 1711 to the Palatinate & the Netherlands. In the region of Zofingen they were found later than anywhere else.” (Mennonite Encyclopedia, p. 5)

“HAURY (Hauri), a Mennonite family stemming from the Aargau, Switzerland. Since a very early date the Hauri family living in Hirschtal, Lenzburg district (as distinguished from the Hauri family living in Reinach), belonged to the Swiss Brethren. After the Thirty Years’ War a number of HAURYs, under the pressure of persecution to which they were subjected in Switzerland, emigrated to South Germany. On one of the four boats that left Switzerland for the Netherlands in 1711 there was a weaver by the name of Hans Haury from Hirschtal and his family. There are still numerous bearers of the name in Switzerland, South Germany, and North America. The ancestor of the Mennonites among them is Jakob Haury, presumably a descendant of the above Hans HAURY, who came as a farmer from Bruchhausen near Mannheim to the Bolanderhof near Kirchheimbolanden (Palatinate) in 1745 & married the widow of Christian Stauffer.” (Mennonite Encyclopedia II, p. 679)

“HAURY (Hauri). 17th Century Anabaptist name, in the Bernese Aargau (Gratz, Bernese Anabaptists 47). After 1648 to the Palatinate; in 1745 Jacob Haury there; progeny to Bavaria, later to USA; 19th century arrivals to Illinois; now mostly in Kansas (Mennonite Encyclopedia II: 679-680). Swiss forms: Hauri (Hirschtal, Ct. Aargau). Hauri and Houri in Ct. Luzern (Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz (7 vols. & Supplement); Journal of Genealogy (March 1979), p. 33: 62)